Saturday, July 25, 2009

MOVING ON. MAYBE.

The 24th of July is a big deal around these here parts. There's a parade. There are picnics. There are sales at places like RC Willey.
And it's all to remember the pioneers who made their entrance into the Salt Lake Valley some 150 years ago.

Thank you, Pioneers. There would be no life on Renoir Circle without you.
Or even any RC Willey stores.

And there wouldn't have been the Children's Parade a week earlier.
Joshua was invited to participate, which he did, only slightly in cognito.



No joke. He marched the whole parade path like that.


Oh so very Joshua.

I also enjoyed seeing

the colorful chain links around the temple representing forever families,

the television sets honoring Philo T. Farnsworth (all sets tuned to General Conference),

and
the float inspired by the movie "Up." Ingenious reminder that temples "lift us UP where we belong."

I couldn't help but laugh at the entry entreating us all to catch the reading bug.

It showed any Mormon's perfect reading selection: "The Book of Mormon" and "Twilight." Ha!

Certainly my favorite part of the parade was the one done by our Stake Primary. Their theme was "Never Give Up," and they depicted the hardships endured by the handcart pioneers on their trek across Wyoming.



I also like the person I watched the parade with.
He is kind of nice.

2 comments:

SladeMomma said...

Good! I was beginning to wonder after the past several post is "Moving On" was getting close to "Moving Out". Now it looks like what is moving out is food - no surprise there with 3 growing boys.

BTW when I was a girl we called the invisible man "Henry" who lived in the doghouse.

lovely laurie said...

Did you see my cute little Mollie in the parade? Our stake did the Draper Temple "Up" float. Mollie was so excited to be in a parade. Oh the simple joys....