Parties and Parades

We celebrated the rest of the July birthdays at a fun party this evening.  Alyse has had a great birthday week starting last Thurs. with a dinner with girl friends.  Then Friday I took her for a birthday lunch and some birthday shopping and she got to have dinner with a mission companion and a woman they worked with in the mission field who is in town visiting.  Sat. she spent the day with her boyfriends family who is in town visiting.  Today was her family party.  Tomorrow her boyfriend has a special day of birthday fun planned for her.  Lucky girl!  Alyse likes theme birthday parties and we have all been princesses, pirates, cowboys, Hawaiians etc.  This year her party theme was Masquerade.  She shared her party with our oldest granddaughter.  She asked everyone to wear black and white and we provided the masks for everyone.  My grand-kids cracked me up they were so excited about the masks.  When they wore them they really thought you couldn't recognize them.  It was so cute!  We had a fun time.

This picture is out of order its me and Alyse at her birthday lunch.

Alyse and Jarom masked.

Alyse and Jarom unmasked.

Her yummy cake.

Our two birthday girls.

The whole group of masqueraders.

We went to the parade that our little town had for Pioneer day.  Below are the spectators.

Some of our favorite entries

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Me with a neighbor who was in the parade advertising for the play Cinderella that she is in. 

Miss Utah

After the parade we went over to the Rec Center where they had all kinds of fun things going on.  That night there was an awesome fireworks display.

The day after Pioneer Day we  had our own neighborhood parade.  It was fun too.

Our little entries in the parade.

After the parade we all met in our neighborhood common area for balloons that a clown made into dogs, flowers etc., a fun bonce house and slide, and lots of good food.  We all had a great time.

We have done a lot of celebrating this past week. It's been fun!