Friday night we ate out at Chili's. Do you know they are having a fund raiser now for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital? It is called Create a Pepper to Fight Childhood Cancer (Childhood Cancer Awareness Week is coming up). While you wait for your food you can color a pepper and make a donation. Our waitress brought Caleb one to color that someone else didn't want to color but had made a donation. After we ate we went back to our library book sale. It was our second trip!
Saturday we went to a parade with my husband's parents. His brother and wife were there too. Caleb liked wearing his uncle's motorcycle helmet. He got to sit on the motorcycle too and be pushed around the yard without it turned on.
The parade is an annual event on Labor Day weekend. My husband had been to it before as a child. We thought it was totally ridiculous! I couldn't believe how the people acted about candy. The road got more and more narrow as the parade watchers scooted closer and closer into the street. We were at a corner and some of the large vehicles had trouble turning. Almost every parade entry was throwing something to the crowd. Some even tossed balls and Frisbees! The people were acting crazy enough about the candy, but then when these other things came out they were so goofy! I saw one little girl trying to reach a ball as it was rolling near the tire of one of the trailers. Here is a picture of how crazy the people were acting. 
Notice the driver not looking where he is going as well as the people mobbing the back of the truck for a bottle of water as it is going. There were several older people standing in front of us. One man would hold out his sack for his candy and some were taking the balls and candy away from the kids. Grown adults! Another thing that offended me was this one group had on scary halloween costumes. They were walking out into the crowd too. I'm not sure what they were advertising. My husband held Caleb, and we had him turn his head so he wouldn't see this. They were really disgusting, bloody, gory costumes. To see them was bad enough but I couldn't believe they were walking up to people; I'm sure there must have been scared children. I really did not find it to be very family friendly as you'd expect from a parade. I plan to write a letter of complaint to the city and include this picture as an example. I especially hope they will do something about the crowd control issue in future years before someone gets hurt.
Sunday we went to church and had our 5th Sunday fellowship lunch.
Monday we went to Chick-fil-a for free chicken strips. You know I like free! You had to wear a team logo and you'd get their new chicken strips for free. It made for a cheap lunch! And we love Chick-fil-a. Then we went back to the library book sale for the bag sale. It is the last day and have brown bags to fill up for $5.
Also, here is a picture of my memorial blanket I wrote about last week. It is so soft!
It was nice having my husband home an extra day. When he told Caleb he'd be home today, Caleb said Y E S!
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"The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace." Psalm 29:11
4 comments:
Ick. That parade would stress me out!!! Its that whole mob mentality thing.
We had icky costumes at our July 4th parade too... very gross.
Glad you got to enjoy lots of family time together!
Many blessings-
Amanda
Thanks for the Memorial Blanket picture. It's really lovely. I know you'll treasure it always.
Sounds like a busy and action-packed weekend!
Thanks for the photo of the blanket... It looks precious in pink!
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