Picnic, Presents and a Parade

This morning, we picked mary dalton up from her sleep over

(she had a BLAST!) and headed to the Open House at Dalton's parents candy/gift store

They had a 50% off table and his mother let the kids "shop" ~ they had a BLAST!

They were able to pick out presents for me, Dalton, each other, and several others and wrap them all by themselves!

After that ~ we headed to the little park behind the PO in our town for a picnic before the parade! ~ It was a BEAUTIFUL day!!!

We always meet up with The Sims family to watch the parade! The kids had so much fun!
(my girl does not EVER miss a chance to pose!!!)

Waiting on the parade to start!!!
woo hoo!!! Here it comes!!! They racked up on candy!!!

Poor Mary Dalton was running before the parade and fell into a drainage ditch (the kind that has a metal grate across it, the metal fell in...and so did she!!!) ~ as crazy as that sounds ~ she cried, but I decided she was just tired...until I decided to take her pants off and look at at her leg. It looked AWFUL! I tried to keep calm, but I knew she was hurting! She did not even pick up any candy until the very end...and even then, she was limping! :( I hope her Daddy pulls some "lawyer strings" and gets this seen about! Someone could have been hurt!!!

A bath, PJs, tylenol, ice pack and lots of TLC seemed to help her feel much better!

If you have never been to a SMALL town Christmas parade, you need to get that on your bucket list PRONTO! Every year I am amazed at what people think SHOULD be in a parade ~

take this cat for example...this just doesn't say "christmas" to me...just saying...

at least this escalade is GREEN!!!

My ALL time favorite memory of the Wrens Christmas parade is when a guy sat on the hood with a 6 ft snake around his neck....he had several "friends" handing out dollar bills instead of candy...somewhere along the way the snake got loose! You can't even beging to IMAGINE the choas that caused!!!

All jokes aside ~ we ALWAYS enjoy the small town parade!!!

Where else can you see Santa in a rocking chair in the back of a pick up truck??? :)