Our neighborhood has a parade the kids put on every year. We didn't make it last year for some reason, so I wasn't sure what it was really like. I'm a bad mommy that knew in plenty of time this year and didn't tell the kids or sign them up to participate. It worked out great! We were headed out for my nieces' birthday party and thought we'd missed the parade. However, they had changed the time to 30 minutes later than originally posted. So we parked and the girls got out of the car (Paul refused to get out - he was tired). The 10 kid parade with their decorated wagons and electric cars turned out to be more entertaining to my girls and much more convenient for us than the big deal Mandeville parade on Friday night. They walked away with more and better loot from our 5 minute neighborhood parade than they did from the city parade. 

Don't you just love the excitement on Riley's face and the concentration on Charlie's?