24th

Every year we go to the 24th celebration.  The kids love going to the parade and getting candy, but this year they got to ride on a float instead so we didn't come home with tons of gross parade candy.

Elly didn't ride the float so she was my only kid getting candy and she was wanting to eat it as fast as she picked it up, she didn't even mind eating the wrapper to get what was inside.

This was the float the grandkids got to ride on.  One of my brothers did it and put all the things that he has made this summer on it.  The kids had fun throwing candy, but they were out by the time they got to the post office, so they didn't make it very far.

Elly and her cousin Leah were a few of the kids we had catching the candy.

Tenor giving Elly a ride after the parade was over.

All the kids that road the float and my brother, Brock, that built the things.

After the parade the we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's and ate some lunch.  Then we had a baseball game, boys against girls for the most part.  After the ball game we went down to the rodeo to watch my brother, Tenor, ride the saddle bronc.  I believe that he took second but maybe third since it has been over a month since this happened.

That night we did sparklers with the little kids.  I think the kids had a great time.  I thought that we had a lot of sparklers but I think next year we are going to need even more.  The kids weren't ready to be done when the sparklers were all gone.

Here is most of the group that we had doing sparklers.

After sparklers some went to bed and some went out back and roasted marshmellows.  It was a fun weekend and the kids had a great time.