Elbow, Elbow, Wrist, Wrist..........

Sam signed us up for the Rhododendron Festival and Parade this year.  When I say "us" I mean he signed N-Hance up and then made me and my kids and Jessica's family be in it.  But it is "our" business and so we all pitched in. :)

Jessica taught us how to make these cute paper flowers and me, Jess and my mom stayed up late making all the flowers.  While making them it seemed like we had a ton -- but then when we started putting them on the kids and on the cars - it seemed like we ran out pretty darn fast. Good thing Sam and Tim woke up early the morning of the parade and scavenged the streets of Florence for rhododendrons.  Not sure if it was legal -- but we got us some flowers. :)  It all turned out better than we thought and it was a lot of fun.  It was A LOT of waving -- the girls were holding their arms with the other arm to wave by the end.  But it was fun and hopefully some good exposure. 

Don't they look so cute? 

Jackson and Dallin were in it too but I didn't get any pictures with my camera -- Tim did on his but I couldn't get them on my computer.   They were very cute too.  They were in little matching outfits and we pinned one flower to the front pocket of their shirts.  Jackson had his flower ripped off and shredded before the parade even started.  Dallin really wanted no part of the parade or waving for the first half but by the end he was really into it and very cute.  He even had a guy throw a quarter at him for waving. :)   We even made the dogs dress up -- which kids and dogs are quite the attraction in parades -- we got lots of positive feed back as we drove.