ahoy, matey!

It's that time again in the land of the pirates...time for parades and celebrations!!!

School released early today for the parade and, boy, has it been one crazy day! Rush to one school for pickup. Realize that the other will not make it home in time to get set up at the parade meeting place so run over to that school for pickup. Get home. Iron uniforms. Throw all the kids in the car. Fight oodles and oodles of traffic to find the right spot. Try to take pictures and realize, oopsie daisies, I forgot the memory card in the card reader at home. Fight the traffic to get to WalMart. Buy memory card and extra batteries. Fight the parking lot traffic that the street has now become. Stand there for 1.5 hours until *my kids *finally pass by in the parade so I can leave for the meeting place.

Jeff is mad. He wanted to walk in the parade. However, because of where he fell in the age line-up and they were trying to fill the lowboy - he had to ride. He is just mad at the world right now. If he doesn't chill soon, I'll be putting his little happy self down for a nap. I don't care if it *is late in the day. I understand from Jen that she caught them up playing several hours after they were sent to bed. um, hm.....And his bad moods will always follow...

So, anyway, enough of that! :)

I got a bunch of pictures this year but I think I have it narrowed down to maybe four or five.

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.....see what I mean about the GREEN???

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