Tremont Turkey Festival Parade

We went to the Tremont Turkey Festival Parade this afternoon. For the last couple years we have gone to this one since we no longer go to Mt. Morris for the 4th of July. We thought we had the best spot as we were at the beginning of the line and had close parking. We would be of the first to leave and not get messed up in traffic. We soon realized that the front is not necessarily the best if you want to limit the candy consumption. The end would be much better because then the candy throwers would be out of candy or at least nearly so. Not including the candy that was eaten, we brought home a grand total of 8 pounds of candy. The children were forwarned that they would have to share and they would not keep it all to themselves. At bedtime we sorted through it and determined what the favorites would be and then sent the children to get ready for bed while Chad and I made a package for him to take to work for everyone to eat. We kept about a third of the candy to be eaten only with permission.

Here are some friends from church across the street from us. Sorry the photo quality is so bad, I used Chad's phone to take the pictures.

Nolan Wagenbach, Jolene, and Jonas watching the parade and hoping for more candy.

I'm not sure if Jolene was sharing her candy with Nolan (who showed up near the end) or if she was just showing off how much she collected.

Jonas enjoying his sucker. He wouldn't take his eyes off the parade long enough for me to get a good picture. He was most interested in the tractors that went by.

Afterward we went home and got the rest of the food ready to have a cook out with some friends from church. We were supposed to host Family Ball on Friday night but there were enough that cancelled so we decided to call it off. Jolene was devastated, I don't think it had much to do with playing ball, but the social aspect of being with her little friend, Lexi. I told her maybe we could have company Sunday if we had a good weekend. So we had Lexi's family and another family with a boy in the age range of our older boys. It turned out to be a nice comfortable evening so we ate out on the drive. Pretty soon our patio add on will be complete and we can set the tables up back there for company.

Well, I am the last one awake, it's 11:36 which is terribly late for us. We plan to sleep in since the children got to bed so late, it wouldn't be profitable to have devotions with half asleep grouchy children, so we will have to wait till evening for that. I hope I will be able to blog again soon! Good Night!!!