Pioneer Day Parade

We celebrated the 24th of July with Chuck running the Ivins 5 mile fun run, attending the Ivins City parade, taking a trip to Pine Valley, playing at the splash park and lighting fireworks. The morning began early for Chuck who had to be at the starting line by 5:45 a.m., especially since Isaac was up until 1:00 a.m. crying the night before. The race circled through Kayenta so Amber and Samuel were out to cheer daddy on as he passed by our home. There weren’t many participants so Chuck took first, second and thrid in his age category. Chuck knew once he entered the older age division he would improve his finish!

All of us at the parade.

There was candy mayhem in front of us when the guys on St. George’s football team dumped a whole bag of candy right in the middle of the street. All the kids ran into the street causing the parade to come to a stand still as they gathered all the candy. Somehow Samuel managed to come back with only peppermints. (I guess he must like them or no one else did!)

Samuel loved the firetrucks and was especially excited to see Smokey Bear. When we were at Fish Lake he got a comic book about forest fires and Smokey Bear. He loves us to read this to him.

Bella’s favorite part of the parade was seeing the horses. She got very excited and would point and wave whenever a horse passed by.