Monday, July 28, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Parade Floats from the Past
So, in one of my last posts I mentioned about the Pioneer Celebration that our town has every year. One of the highlights of this two-day event is a parade. When I was younger we attended many parades in Waycross, so when I think of a parade for a town it was like those: marching bands, T-ball teams, cheerleading groups, and such. Well, the parade here for Manassa Pioneer Days is nothing like that. There are Floats, and more floats -built by the local businesses and then each organization in the church in 2 of the wards build floats also. So, there's usually somewhere around 15 floats in the parade. And that's about all besides all the demolition derby cars!!
I thought I would post a few pictures of the floats that have been done for Larry's Garage (my father-in-law's buisness). My mother-in-law and her kids have been doing these floats for many years, and have had many great ones. They took a sabatical for a few years, and started back a few years after me and Waylen got married, so these are ones that I have helped on with all the rest of the family.
This is known as the "comeback" float - it was the done in 2003- after a few years of them not doing one - this is the first float I ever helped on.
Float from 2004: It's an octupus if you can't tell
This is the Riverboat float from 2005:
I thought I would post a few pictures of the floats that have been done for Larry's Garage (my father-in-law's buisness). My mother-in-law and her kids have been doing these floats for many years, and have had many great ones. They took a sabatical for a few years, and started back a few years after me and Waylen got married, so these are ones that I have helped on with all the rest of the family.
This is known as the "comeback" float - it was the done in 2003- after a few years of them not doing one - this is the first float I ever helped on.
Float from 2006:
One of my favorites - Mater from last year - Definetly going to be hard to top that one -Lots of people loved it!!!
And this year we are doing the toys from Toy Story - Woody, Buzz Lightyear, the dinosaur, the pig, slinky dog, and Mr. Potato Head. It's all starting to come together slowly but surely, and hopefully we'll have it all done by the end of the week. Then, we can relax and get a few other things done before the Celebration begins next Friday. So, once again - Stay Tuned for how Woody and his gang turn out!!
Monday, July 07, 2008
End of T-ball Season
Hayden had his last T-Ball game tonight, and it was a really good game. He did really good, and had a lot of fun!! It was a nice little activity for him this summer, and he really enjoyed it. It was fun for us to watch him and his teammates off in la-la land at each game, but also see how they improved from game to game. However, it is nice to have it over and done with, so we don't have any more games or practices to worry about during our busy month of July. I put a couple of videos on here, the first one is Hayden batting, then running to first base. The second one is him running from second to home, with the boy behind him hot on his heels.
Celebrating the 4th of July
We had a good 4th of July holiday. Both of the kids were still sound asleep at 7 when it was time for the flag raising ceremony and pancake breakfast at the church, so I stayed home with the kids while Waylen attended that. Then, we went up to Alamosa 
for the parade. Hayden enjoyed getting all the candy, and Kayla enjoyed clapping for everyone that was in the parade. After the parade, Hayden asked when the big parade was going to happen. (Note: to those who may not know - Every year our town holds what we call Manassa Pioneer Days, which celebrates the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers reaching Utah all those many years ago. Anyways, during this celebration - ou
r town of less than 1,000 goes to well over 10,000. The days' events include a rodeo, demolition derby, motocross, carnival, and a parade -which has lots of floats -More Info.to Come Later - so you will then know what Hayden means by the big parade. Stay Tuned!!) Later that afternoon, we went over to Waylen's parents for a barbecue and hung out for the rest of the day visiting with everyone. That evening, Hayden had fun lighting sparklers and watching the "fireworks show" that the guys did. Kayla also had fun watching the fireworks, and clapped for most of them.
for the parade. Hayden enjoyed getting all the candy, and Kayla enjoyed clapping for everyone that was in the parade. After the parade, Hayden asked when the big parade was going to happen. (Note: to those who may not know - Every year our town holds what we call Manassa Pioneer Days, which celebrates the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers reaching Utah all those many years ago. Anyways, during this celebration - ou
r town of less than 1,000 goes to well over 10,000. The days' events include a rodeo, demolition derby, motocross, carnival, and a parade -which has lots of floats -More Info.to Come Later - so you will then know what Hayden means by the big parade. Stay Tuned!!) Later that afternoon, we went over to Waylen's parents for a barbecue and hung out for the rest of the day visiting with everyone. That evening, Hayden had fun lighting sparklers and watching the "fireworks show" that the guys did. Kayla also had fun watching the fireworks, and clapped for most of them.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Diaper Dilemma
Kayla's newest favorite thing to do is take off her diaper. We can't seem to keep it on her. She'll take off her pants, then her diaper. The other night at Waylen's mom's, she had gotten into the flour (which is another favorite for her), so we gave her a bath, but then 
all she had to wear was just her diaper. She kept sneaking off and taking it off, or if she hadn't taken it off for awhile, someone would say to her "Kayla take off your diaper." And there she would go running off to hide!! Waylen finally got some tape and taped it on. Then yesterday afternoon after her nap, she took off her wet diaper, so I put a new one on her, and then about 20 minutes later, I found her with it off again (and that one was wet too). It is a constant battle to get her to keep it on. We've considered starting to potty-train, but she freaks out anytime we try to sit her on the potty seat on the toliet. So who knows what we'll do with our little imp!!
all she had to wear was just her diaper. She kept sneaking off and taking it off, or if she hadn't taken it off for awhile, someone would say to her "Kayla take off your diaper." And there she would go running off to hide!! Waylen finally got some tape and taped it on. Then yesterday afternoon after her nap, she took off her wet diaper, so I put a new one on her, and then about 20 minutes later, I found her with it off again (and that one was wet too). It is a constant battle to get her to keep it on. We've considered starting to potty-train, but she freaks out anytime we try to sit her on the potty seat on the toliet. So who knows what we'll do with our little imp!!
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