We had such a great day today. We went to one of our favorite wing places for lunch (Wingers) and it was so tasty. After that we met Uncle Paul and Grandpa Kinney at the site they were staking out for us all for the parade tomorrow. I must mention that these Utah people are totally insane. I don't think I could have taken pictures to do justice in showing how many people lined University in Provo. These people are nuts. They all hang out from like 10 in the morning just to get spots for the parade. I have even heard word that fights have broken out before and police sometimes get involved in situations. It's totally crazy. It was quite interesting to witness it all while sitting back at our nice shaded spot that Uncle Paul and Grandpa were so great to get for us all.
We hung out with the family there for a while and then we took the kids down a few blocks to a carnival. It wasn't the most awesome one ever but we did tell the kids we would go. They played in the Spongebob bounce house, bought a few fun things, and got their faces painted. Noah was even so brave and got his picture taken with some Star Wars characters. The picture turned out cute but it will have to wait until we get home to our scanner. We bought treats at 7 Eleven after that and then went back to the parade site for a while. It was a good, fun day and we can't wait for the fun 4th of July things awaiting us tomorrow.
No better start to the day than some chocolate milk, a cup of dry cereal, and Disney cartoons on G&G Kinney's huge 50+ inch TV.
Our awesome parade site is right on the corner where this street sign is. Great spot under a huge tree.
Everyone sitting around waiting to throw the stuff out on the public lawn. Can't do it until 3, the police say so.
Noah mesmerized for a while, just watching all the people setting up their spots for the day and night.
No joke, I don't know how many police vehicles were out patrolling making sure NO ONE had their stuff claiming spots until 3 o'clock. It just cracked me up to hear them on their loudspeakers saying "it's not 3 o'clock yet!" They would even pull over and wait for people to actually move their stuff. They were nice enough to finally let people claim their spots a whole 5 minutes early. Didn't see another cop car the rest of the afternoon.
The lady next to us was so nice to give Noah and Zoey a flag. I like nice people!
My pretty girl hangin out on the blanket on the lawn.
I love this one of them waving their flags as though someone were watching them.
More cute kids.
Noah was just smitten with the adorable random kitty that came to visit us at our spot for a while. I LOVE this picture with him squatting down and the kitty looking up at him. Too cute!
Awesome Star Wars characters. I love that Noah so quickly conquered his fear of them. Enough to stand amongst the 3 of them and have a picture with them.
Zoey with her firework painted on her face and her pretty halo ribbon thing on her head.
My Noah boy with his awesome blue dragon on his cheek. I honestly had to sway him NOT to want a ladybug painted on his face. He loved his dragon though.
The kids took right to cousin Kelsie. Kelsie was so nice to entertain them. They were instant friends after playing on the air mattress together and especially cuz Kelsie let them play with her phone.
The above picture has it's title for a reason. It was a little drizzly out when we walked to the park so the slides were wet. We convinced Noah to go down the big twisty slide and were so excited that he was going to do it on his own. He went down fine until he got to the bottom where the water had pooled. I guess the wet slide all the way down and the water at the bottom kind of turned the slide into a slip-n-slide. Noah flew off the end, turned somehow, and then landed on his tummy. He was not thrilled. We tried to get him to go down again and tried to convince him we would catch him. The only way he would go down again was with Mommy (that was a site in itself).
