4th of July parade

We took the kids to the 4th of July parade. I love that it took less than 10 minutes to walk there. The boys loved that the parade participants threw a ton of candy their way. They even got dilly bars from the Dairy Queen people. The candy helped keep Liam in the wagon for most of the parade.

Here's Liam-tough decision-sucker or ice cream. He chose the sucker.

Nothing woke Kella up, not the marching band or the old tractors.

What you can't see is that all their pockets are bulging full of candy. (sidenote-Marcus and Cale purposely picked the same clothes to wear. They have a lot of the same tshirts and the past several days they have been coordinating their shirts. I call them the "twins".)

This was my favorite float. Santa Claus. He yelled, "Ho, ho, ho. I'm on vacation."

After the parade, Marcus, Cale, Kella and I took the long way back to the house. We stopped at a free face painting booth. Marcus wasn't feeling a face paint, but Cale was for it. He got this nice starburst with some sparkle. It actually stayed on until Andy took the Marcus, Cale and Ewan to the bounce house area that afternoon (they had a blast, by the way, and got lemon shake-ups afterwards).