Lehi Children's Parade

We usually try to make it to at least one parade during the summer.  Lehi has their Round-up the last week of June and this is usually when we get to one.  Luckily for us, they have a children's parade on the Friday Night before the big parade on Saturday and it's so much fun!  They have all the kids floats and throw tons of candy!  We were going to skip the children's parade and make it to the big parade this year, but a weather forecast of over a hundred that Saturday had us changing our plans last minute.  So off to the children's parade we went.  It was still hot and humid, but we took our umbrellas this time and managed to keep most of us in the shade.

We had to get a good spot, so there was a lot of waiting time at the beginning, but once the parade got going, the kids were all smiles.

Even Tate thought the parade was awesome!

Although I had to laugh, I ended up sitting behind the kids and Jeremiah in order to help position one of the umbrellas, so with the people just to the right of us having an umbrella as well, I couldn't see any of the floats until they were almost right in front of us.  But Tate, unaware of this fact, would always point and say "Look Mom!" as soon as he could see it - which was a bit earlier that I could.  He did it with every single parade entry.

Over and ...

.. Over.  It just made us laugh.

I had each of the kids pick out a favorite float and then I like to take a picture and post it as "their favorite."  It gives them something to do while they are watching and in between gathering candy.  So, without further, adieu, here are the favorites for this years parade:

Zach loved the shark float - what a surprise, he's been into this stuff lately, a sure sign he's getting older.

Hailey's favorite were the groups after groups of cheerleaders.  Another big surprise, she seems to be obsessed with cheerleading lately.  Luckily for her, it seems they have cheer squads for every grade from 7th on up, so we saw a bunch of them - she was in heaven!

Tate had a couple of favorites, but I think his most favorite was this one with the wizard of oz theme, but more because it had a ton of green than anything else.  Did I mention his favorite color is green???

Yes, we had a blast at the parade, despite the heat.  The kids all came home with tons of candy and smiles on their faces - not bad at all.