Saturday, September 20, 2008

80th Annual Shelley Spud Day Parade

It has been a beautiful weather week, until this morning. Rain and lots of it. Thanks to my daughter Amber who loves to experience EVERYTHING~I made my way to Shelley (3miles from home) and watched the parade. It seemed to be a bigger deal this year, at least the parade was longer. And we experienced yes you guessed rain. The float with the new Miss Russet was soggy and she was sitting down holding an umberella. I took some pictures of Shelley highlights (which mostly of my family attending the parade). Jennifer and Shane with Hailey and Paige were there, as well as Amber, Garrett and baby Hesston. Ashley and me. After the parade we walked over to the park where they had lots of good food, exibits and lots of things to buy. We werent there long. They always give out free baked potatoes with the works and chocolate milk so we ate and then wandered awhile. Garrett was having a blast, and we were having one watching him. This is our friend Deb's vinyl store called the 4 Sisters. She is such a great friend and talented gal. She a loft at the top of her store where she and her two boys live. On the second floor she has a slide that goes down to the bottom floor where they have a playroom, and a great meditating,exercise area for her.



This is the back of her store and her backyard. She is so clever, she put the sod and walkway in last Tuesday. Rather Zen!!


Im not sure who this gentleman is, but he was sure having a good time.
Shelley grade school kids got to be in the parade. They were sure saved from the rain.


This is some of the "fam" Hailey,Paige,Amber,Garrett,Ashley Jennifer, and Shane in the back.Here comes the rain!!J.J. and her kids did an early morning 5K race, Hailey is wearing her shirt. She beat her mom by one second.
This is Ashley and Garrett in the back alley before the parade started.
This is Dustin on the Haslem float. His bestfriend Brandon was killed in August on a motorcycle. Brandon also raced cars and they had his number 3 car in the parade in memory of Brandon. We all love and miss him.



1 comment:

Unknown said...

You have such a good looking family! That Garret sure is cute with his glasses! Its fun to see a "small town" parade - they are the ones I like the best!