Cedar Hills City Celebration

On July 21st, our little city of Cedar Hills had their annual bash. We got up early (well, early to us!) and went down to the Parade. Now this parade used to really only consist of kids that decorated their bikes, lawn mowers, and anything else they could ride but has now grown to actual floats sponsored by the few businesses we have in town, which are mostly dentists. (You'll see why I mention the dentists in a minute!) So we went to the parade and I didn't get my camera out because I wasn't expecting much...but Brayden absolutely loved it! He loved picking up all the candy that was thrown to him by these dentists and other local businesses. (I TOTALLY think the dentists were trying to drum up some business with all the candy! They sure weren't throwing out toothbrushes!)

***Notice the pass along cards! Those came from some of the local missionaries who walked in the parade!***

We got home from the parade and put Brayden in his high chair to have some early lunch and next thing we knew, we turned around and saw this....



So we just left him there because we didn't want to wake him up and he ended up sleeping for about an 1 1/2 hours!!

Here's what our schedule for the rest of the day looked like! (Unfortunately I didn't take any pics!)

1:00pm Leave to drive up to Shane's place and go swimming.

2:00pm to 3:00pm Swimming with Shane

3:00pm Getting cleaned up and driving to Brian's mini mission reunion

3:30pm to 5:30pm Japan Sendai Mission Reunion

7:00pm BBQ with the Leavitt Family

9:15pm Walk to the park to watch the fireworks

10:00pm FIREWORKS!

Brayden loved the fireworks and also the glow bracelets that Grandma had left over from Girls Camp. We probably had 100 that we all played with! Brayden wore two put together as a necklace so we wouldn't lose him in the dark! And just like every year....the Cedar Hills fireworks only get better and better!