24th of July Parade

As a family we headed down to the craziness

of Salt Lake for the 24th of July Parade. 

It is so funny to see people just waking up on the 

street in sleeping bags and hanging from trees in 

hammocks before the parade starts.  We found

a decent seat.  We were in the front and we

got there maybe 15 minutes before it started.

It was over cast the first part of the parade so it

was nice.  The kids and I were so excited to see

the prophet at the beginning of the parade but 

Pres. Uchtdorf was there in stead.  Which was really

fun because he was waving to everyone and we

could see him were as in the past the Prophet was

in a car with the windows rolled up for security and

we could never see him.  It was so cool to be so close

to him.  What a happy fun man! 

This one happened to be Sierra's and Maddie's

favorite and they went to the parade preview at

different times.  

This one was Riley's and My favorite float. 

After the parade we went up the street to visit Brandon's

Grandpa LeCheminant.  That was fun to talk to them

a bit.  We then met up with Kami and Mikel to 

get Emery from them so they could go on an

overnighter for their anniversary.  

We hung out at City Creek for a bit before

Brandon and I decided shopping with kids

was not as fun as shopping by ourselves!

We headed home and the kids just played with friends

the rest of the day.