Lehi City Children's Parade

Every year the city of Lehi has their "Lehi City Round-up" and included in the festivities for the week are 2 parades.  The first is the children's parade on that Friday night and the big parade Saturday morning.  We usually attend the Saturday parade, but this year we had workers coming to insulate our attic, so we decided to go to the children's parade on Friday night instead.  It was kind of a last minute decision, so it was crazy getting chairs up to reserve our space, getting home to eat really fast, and then getting back in time, but we did it!  

Here's the gang all ready to go.

Tate was so excited, although I think he had no idea what to be excited for.  All he knew is that someone mentioned candy and he was happy!

Hailey was so cute sitting there and waiting.

Zach was happy too - he decided to camp out on the curb to be in prime candy grabbing position.

Last year Tate had barely started walking and wasn't too much into the parade, but this year he was all excited about running out and grabbing candy that people threw to him.  He was so cute!  Every time he would come back and be so excited about a single piece of candy, it was darling!  I did get pictures of the other two, but they were so fast, all the ones I got were so blurry!  We have fast candy snatchers!

This was one of Tate's favorite entries in the parade - more than likely due to the live horses.

This was Zach's favorite - it was an entry from a local ward and features cowboys in a big bathtub.  He thought it was hilarious that it looked like they were all bathing!

Hailey's favorite of course was the entry after entry of cheerleaders.  I swear I have NEVER seen so many groups of cheerleaders in all my life, but Hailey was in heaven.

The best part of the evening though, was when one of the cheerleading advisors came off the float to give her a special cheerleading necklace.  She was so happy!  And although I'm sure they gave away plenty of them, we didn't see her do any others in our area, so Hailey was thrilled at how special that was!  She wore the necklace for a week straight because she loved it so much!

We really enjoyed the Children's Parade this year and due to the heat that is usually unbearable during the Main Saturday parade, we may just go to the Children's Parade every year from now on!