Santa Parade

Who doesn’t love a parade? I for one love any kind of parade. I love sitting on the sidewalk and watching a parade with all the kids. Dave’s mom has been taking Thomas and Noelle to a Santa parade for the last several years the day after Thanksgiving in Sonora. This year since Dave and Kelly were off we thought it would be a great idea for us all to go.

My mom and Chris had spent Thanksgiving with my Aunt Linda and had decided to spend the long weekend there so they had a hotel room right on the main street that the parade was on. The plan was for us to go there a couple of hours before hand to relax and visit with them but there wasn’t much relaxing going on…. I’m not sure what we were thinking.
 
Once it got dark we headed outside for the parade. It was SOOOO cold outside but the kids did great and didn’t complain that much.


I really liked this picture of Kelly and I. We very rarely get a picture together so I’m glad this one turned out.

Afterwards we headed over the Round Table pizza and had some dinner. One of Hope's new favorite things is the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" as you can tell in this video. This was a great way to start the Christmas Holiday season. I'm really looking forward to all of the activities we have planned.

Road trip success

Kelly and I took the girls to Historic Railtown on Saturday. Dave and Thomas were still on their "boys" camping trip with my dad, Troy and Tyler so we thought we should do something fun with the girls.  We actually thought of driving all the way up to Kennedy Meadows where they were but thought it might be to long of a drive for Hope to do all in one day. We were definitely not going to spend the night in a tent with the baby. Although we did think about for a split second. We're glad we didn't because on our way home Dave called and said they were almost home. They decided to come back a day early. 

 We took the girls on a trip on the train.

Auntie and her girls.

 

After our ride on the train we had a nice picnic at the park.

 

 

These girls love their baby sister

Bubbles are always a hit with Karly.

 

Hope's first road trip was a huge success.

 

Then when we got home and the boys got home this is what happened.....

This is what happens when Daddy comes home from his camping trip.

Thomas caught a good lookin' fish.

Karly's having fun cleaning the fish with Daddy.