St. Patrick's Day Parade Camden Style

 So this past Saturday, we continued last year's new tradition of taking the kids out to Cory Bliss's house in Camden to watch their parade, which is the Saturday AFTER the holiday so as not to compete with Syracuse.  Of course, it was freezing and the road was muddy again.  Cory is Travis' brother, Todd's new BFF.  They live RIGHT on the parade route in a house that has been in her family for a long, long time.  They bought it from her Grandma's estate last year and spent a year renovating it, just moving in.  Ellie was actually born on Katie's birthday, which she seems to love.  They have a bunch of people, mostly family, coming and going.  Many are drunk, of course!  The parade wasn't as good as last year....I mean, many more trucks and a lot less dancers and such, but as you can see above, Abbey was THRILLED with the fire trucks.  Adam was there to get candy.  He's pretty good at it and did confirm for me later that yes, it was his favorite part of the day.  I brought Ellie out for a bit, but it was cold so not too long.  She was VERY serious watching the parade and taking it in :)

 Her FIRST parade!! :)

This is a shot of the house.  Yes, they put a porta potty in the front yard.  Which apparently Adam used when he went with Todd and Travis out to Travis's yard to get a ride in a new truck.  He was fascinated.  Eww.  He's even turned one of his toys into one!! In his imagination, there is apparently an entire trash dump below it.  And they are cooking chili over a fire and there is a fire in an oil can. Guess "city" code isn't enforced this day lol.  I didn't get to socialize, which was what I was hoping to do, much but it's OK.  Kids had a good time and I wasn't having a bad time.

And here is Ellie with her first cupcake frosting...apparently she "stole" it!  :)