veterans day

we love our small town veterans day parade. helps that we've had participants in it the last few years, but you know.

all the years we've had walkers (4?) matt has walked with them. he's such a good daddy.

i thought this group of soldiers was awesome.

and this guy, who i thought was governor larry hogan, but matt let me know was just county commissioner todd b. morgan. close enough. and after he gave each of the girls a fist bump they talked about how hard his fist bumps were. love these girls.

clydesdales.

our daisies! franks is in the back on the right.

there she is!

we sat on the wrong side of the street and it was sooo sunny!

and also, i can't read weather temperatures anymore and i dressed the girls like we were heading into the arctic, and then it was warm. i didn't worry about them wearing red, white, and blue cause i didn't think they'd take their coats off. doy.

dorns sat by us and chelsea snapped this one so mama could be in it. that's nice and rarely happens.

this girl and these glasses were the hit of the parade. everybody commented on them. she loves 'em.

and some of our daisies pre-parade.

cute girls!

maybe one of these years i'll walk with them, but for now i'm happy being an observer. :)

also:

*one day we picked the girls up from school and told them we had to go clean the church, only us, no other families from our awesome team. they were all kind of like ….oh, ok. then we surprised them and went to see trolls, which i thought was silly and cute. they loved the surprise.

*we've spent lots of time outside soaking up the last few days of this gorgeous indian summer. every time i say to myself, we've got to enjoy these days, they won't last. and to my delight, they have.

*chris still spends almost every night (but not the whole night) at brian's. bri-guy is prepping for his mission to taiwan in december, so there's a good deal of hoping and praying that he's rubbing off on chris.

*the said duo also taught "an amazing" eq lesson on sunday, complete with a microwaved lightbulb object lesson. we'll skip the part where they went to target before church to buy the lightbulb.

*and we also did lots of other stuff. the end.