Saturday night, we continued our Christmas-filled weekend by heading down to our town’s annual Christmas parade. I have been going to this Christmas parade (with the exception of last year when it was too cold out to take 2 little five month olds to it) for many years and was even in it for Girl Scouts many, many years ago.
We ate an early dinner so we could head down to the parade early to hopefully get a good spot. We got all bundled back up in our snow gear and headed downtown. The temperature on Saturday was perfect – not too cold. It snowed all afternoon (the forecast was for 2-4” of snow during the afternoon-evening hours) and continued to snow all during the parade, which made it a beautiful winter evening to enjoy outside. (The weather shield we have for the stroller came in really handy to keep the boys dry on our couple-block walk down from where we parked to the parade.) We enjoyed some hot apple cider (a number of downtown businesses offer free hot chocolate & apple cider before and during the parade), ran into a couple friends and were eventually able to find my parents & sister/nephews. The boys really enjoyed the parade and were in awe of all the beautiful lights & music. I would be lying if I said that seeing them watch the parade and getting so excited for each new float, didn’t bring tears to my eyes that night. Seeing the magic of Christmas in my children’s eyes – priceless. The parade was starting to run into bedtime, so we headed home a little over half-way through the parade. (We did this to avoid any meltdowns & it worked!) Santa Clause is always the last float, so we unfortunately missed seeing him in the parade this year but I’m sure we’ll catch him next year.
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| All bundled up! |
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| Me & my boys...waiting for the parade to start. |
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| Our family - enjoying the Christmas parade! |
Also, a very Happy 17 Month Birthday to my two baby boys – Wyatt & Colton – today. You grow and amaze me daily and give me more love than I ever knew possible!
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