the 24th of july. known only to utahn's and latter-day saints. full of small town parades and carnivals and bbq's. my kind of holiday.
ever since i can remember the parade has gone down the street in front of my parents' house so the entire extended family congregates at 8 a.m. for breakfast, the parade at 10 a.m., carnival activities at noon, and a bbq at 3 p.m. it may or may not turn into a 12 hour affair. that's a lot of findlay family time.
we missed a lot of family this year but had a fun time with those who made it:
didn't get pictures of our fish pond, popcorn stand, or game of human battleship. or my poor niece when she got caught in the middle of a water fight with us and one of the floats in the parade. found her drenched and crying on the blanket when things calmed down. whoops.
favorite memory from last year: the m&m game got a little intense and my cousin connor sat back hard in his chair and kept going back falling and hitting the table with the 5 gallon jug of homemade cream soda and knocking it over. everyone jumped more concerned about saving the soda leaving connor to get up on his own saying, 'don't worry about me'. maybe you had to be there.
