Chattni's family and Cort and Alyssa and I went to the Murray parade the morning of the 4th of July. It was a lot of fun. I used to take my kids to that parade every year. When they got older we would sometimes go to the parade up in Park City if we were vacationing up there, if not, we would go to the Murray parade. It is a lot crazier now. Tons of people. It wasn't so crowded when my kids were young!

The kids got to where they would yell "candy, candy, candy" at every float that went by. They would stand and wave... Cort had a bunch of friends there that sat with us. There were a TON of kids. It was pretty cute all of them knowing each other so well and playing together. They would all help each other get candy if one kid missed out. It was really sweet. There were some girls that came by dressed in dance costumes and passed out fliers about their upcoming performance. One girl handed a flyer to Alyssa and asked her if she wanted to come watch her dance. Alyssa just took the flyer and nodded yes. Then she kept saying she wanted to go watch that girl dance. She was ready to leave the parade and go watch that girl! It was cute.

Later a car came through from Fast cash or some odd place. They weren't throwing candy and there were pictures of dollars all over the car. The kids were yelling "candy, candy, candy" so I said "No! dollars, dollars, dollars!" The grown ups chuckled about that and we watched the parade. Pretty soon Aspen was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she was upset because she "didn't get any dollars!" Nate finally folded up a flyer and handed to her and told her it was a dollar and she was fine. :)