Sunday, December 7, 2008

Christmas Parade and Lighting Ceremony

Last Saturday we took the kids to the annual Ogden Christmas parade. We'd never been before and thought we'd try it out. The kids' favorite thing about the parade was the "real life Star Wars guys" This is Hunter's favorite picture. He thought he was so cool.

We had mentioned to my family that we were going to the parade, so they decided to join in on the fun.



Before they lit up Christmas Village, they had a little ceremony. We couldn't see it but we could here everything on the PA system. A little girl named Mckell was going to turn on the Christmas village lights, so of course our Mckell thought that they were talking to her. She was so excited. Luckily we were standing by a building that had a button on it. When everyone started the count down, Mckell was ready :) When we got to 1 she pushed the button, and all of the lights turned on. She thought that was the greatest. The whole night she kept telling Hunter that Santa was going to bring her lots of presents because she turned on all the lights for people to see. Isn't she the sweetest!


6 comments:

The Ballard's said...

Oh the small simple miracles of Christmas. I am so glad you were by a button. Cute pictures. I hope everything went well with the blessing.

Shari said...

Sounds like a lot of fun! I always wanted to go to the Christmas lighting. The pictures were cute. Mckell looks like she was quite proud of herself. She did good turning on the lights, that is a big job! :-)Merry Christams!

i'm h.mac said...

that is hilarious, quick thinking! we were there too, we have to go every year for the star wars guys!

Stacie said...

That sounds like so much fun! And what a cute story to tell...Sorry that we wern't able to make it yesterday, but hopefully we will see you soon!

Bart and Jill Schenck Family said...

We have never been to that parade. Sad to say, I did not even know they had one!!!! That is so cute of McKell and the button!!!

Bart and Jill Schenck Family said...

I had to comment back to you because that is so funny about you trying to take a family picture. I did the same thing, tried to get the kids' picture by our Christmas tree and Rexton kept pulling faces, Kolton kept looking at Cam, and Cam was climbing all over the place. After I finished getting angry at them and seeing that none of my pictures turned out at all, I decided no photo card for us this year!!!! Then, somehow we got a decent one on a night we didn't expect it. Except you cannot see any of us, but that is okay because it is a good memory!!!!!