St. Patrick's Day Parade

On Saturday, we drove out to Camden, which is about an hour away to see their annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.  Travis Bliss invited us and I was hesitant because of the cold, but he assured me we would be at someone's house if the kids got cold.  And they had never been to a parade.  So we decided to try it out.  I am so glad we did.  The kids LOVED it.

Turns out, we were at Corey Bliss' future home, the former home of his fiancee's grandmother right on Main Street.  They had a fire barrel going, which I guess in Camden, no one cares about for St. Pat's day, with chili cooking and a whole spread inside.  It was mostly her family, but everyone was friendly.  The kids sat right down at the food table and Abbey planted in front of the cupcake stand and started eating the frosting off them.  I had to cut her off pretty quick.  Adam started going through the brownies.  Todd likes to joke I don't give them the good stuff so they hoard when they have access.

The parade started and they each had bags for candy.  The yard was full of snow and it was really muddy next to the curb.  Adam didn't care, he was digging for it.  Abbey was most interested in the music.  She was dancing to everything!

Love the look on Adam's face... he's got his Dad next to him holding his bag.

Abbey waiting for something interesting to come.  We had to stop here from dancing down the street. Travis gave his brother Cory a hard time about the mud, she he came and shoveled it. Made things a little easier!

Mom, please don't bother me with the camera... I have candy to get!

Afterwards, we hung out inside.  Everyone was really friendly and didn't seem to mind we had two toddlers running around.  Most places, I really can't relax because there's always the fear they are going to get into stuff.  But everyone was kind of looking out for them... I sat in the dining room and didn't have to worry like I usually do, especially at people's houses.  Adam was busy making friends with the cute teenage girls, sitting with them and watching basketball and Abbey was putting party hats on everyone.  Besides one little freak out when we came inside and the living room was really crowded and Abbey didn't want to take her boots off, they were really well behaved and had fun.  I was so glad that we went.  We don't get have a lot of those occasions, a house full of people for the kids to adapt to and hang out.  And needless to say, they LOVED the parade.