Happy 4TH of July!

The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays! We always go to the parade and watch fireworks as part of our festivities.

Pouting because I wanted a picture

All geared up and waiting for the parade.

Here come the Sherrif's Posse and rodeo royalty

The rodeo queens and others

Amy's cousin Kaden. His dad was on the other horse and the firetruck sirens were spooking it pretty bad.

Our local veterans

There were lots of mini horses throughout the parade.
Another cousin, Justina, on another float.

Candy!!!!!!

Cheering along with the cheerleaders coming our way.

Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty

The Ghost wagons

Smoky the Bear. Goompa took Ty out for a closer look.

The AWESOME Statue of Liberty. It was called "United We Stand; Divided We Fall" and it would actually fold down and then rise back up. It was one of the coolest floats of the day. Notice the size of it compared to the man walking beside it.

A pioneer wagon

The tractors

And all the neat Classis cars

Coyote Creek FD

Vernon FD

Springerville FD

Eagar FD

Here comes the parade!

Waiting before the parade

The sirens made her a little jumpy

my dad (aka: Goompa)

The pretty fireworks at the end of the day

the 3D boxes were one of the kids favorites along with the smiley faces

Waiting for the fireworks

where we were for the fireworks there is a lifesize statue of a horse and antique buggy. Tyler thought it was neat so we got a picture of her on the "horsie"

Civilian fireworks are actually illegal in Arizona so we got the kids a few of the paper confetti poppers. They thought they were just as fun.

Isn't her new "do" pretty?

LOOK!!!

Stuffing her shirt with the confetti. A sign of things to come?

Woo Hoo!