The Children's Parade 2010

We first went to The Day's of '47 Children's Parade two years ago.

We had so much fun that we knew we needed to try that again. As we walked up with our stroller full of boys this celebrity drove by. Now you know it is a great parade when you see Ronald Mcdonald making a get away.

We were a little late (as usual, I HATE to be late but can't seem to manage to be on time to anything), but I was a little relived because it was extremely HOT and we were there for a long time.

The City Center is so beautiful.

It was a good little parade. I don't think we missed too much.

After we headed to the carnival. They had all sorts of fun things going on.

The guys running the baseball booth were going crazy because Hunter was throwing really close to the target and he was so young. Hmmmm, who knew?

All sorts of entertainment was going on.

The lines weren't too bad.

And the rides were dope (yep dope:)

And look who was there! It was worth it just to see this guy!

This little stroller isn't as well made as our last one and we definitely pile the kids on it. I hope it lasts as long as we need it.

Home Depot had a huge area that the kids could come and build a project. That area was nuts so we took our projects home to do later.

Lincoln absolutely would not be talked into getting his face painted.

This guy was walking around. We saw him running by. He literally was running. Must have been late for a war or something.

But these guys were hanging out letting everyone getting their pictures with them. They were the most polite storm troopers I have ever met.

He woke up for a little of the party!

This little ditty was so hard. I was sitting there watching everyone miss the target thinking, "who designed this? It is way to hard for kids..." When Palmer made it! Shocked me.

He got some cool prizes.

The Boy Scouts of America are celebrating 100 years this year. Ever since we watched "Follow Me Boys" Palmer wants to be a scout master when he grows up. We haven't told him it doesn't pay yet. They were racing pine wood derbys at their booth.

Another celebrity. This place was crawling with them.

Everything here was free or very cheap. The hot dogs were $1. Sold.

There was a fire engine shooting their hose into the air to cool people off. Hunter was dying to do it, but didn't want his face paint to come off. The lady next to us over heard him and assured him that it wouldn't come off as her children had already done it and it stayed on. So Hunter was thrilled to go and do it.

It did come off....and ruined his new shirt to boot. Oh well, he had a ball.

We were all laughing that when Palmer closed his eyes he still had some and when he opened them he had four pair.

The actually got their big gun hoses out and were spraying absolutely everyone. Little old ladies, women with babies. I think the firemen were getting out some latent aggression.

That night we came home and built their projects.