Friday, December 18, 2009

New Tradition

New traditions are the best, and I am most excited about this one! In Tempe, down by ASU, they have a park called Tempe Town Lake. There are no motorized boats allowed on the lake, HOWEVER, they do a boat parade once a year. So you can dazzle your boat up, enter it in the contest, and float the parade. IT IS SO FUN! We entered ours this year, the theme: The North Pole. We had so much fun getting it ready. It was a gorgeous day and such a fun thing to do as a family. There were probably close to 10,000 people there, which makes it all the more exciting. Santa came and there were tonz of festivities throughout the day. We all agreed it was a blast and that we want to start it as a new tradition...My sweet little guy

Yes, Lilly is EATING the bulbs
Dale and Claire

Tatey is always laughing at his silly sissy
My favorite thing about the night was this guy. He screamed to the crowd the whole night "Merry Christmas" and got everyone to participate and show Christmas Cheer!


Lilly was honking the horn and my dad kept jumping like it was scaring him, she thought it was hilarious
It started to get cold for this little bear
These were a lot of the boats that were there:










This "UP" boat won first prize, it was pretty incredible

Not too bad for our first time eh? We are gonna win next year!
My sweet little girl and her Papa
My darling little boy and his Gamma

Love this time of year!

5 comments:

Marissa said...

So cute! What an awesome new tradition!

Laura said...

Of COURSE Jerry entered into a Christmas float on a boat! LOL -- that is so funny! What a great activity though. The kiddos are too dang cute - I want to smush them... miss you guys!

Sommer said...

go Jerr-Bear! tate is following in his footsteps with that bear warmer. cute!

Sandra said...

What fun. Remind us next year, and we will go watch the parade and root you on. Great photos. Loved the pictures of your kids with their grandparents.

Patti said...

Merry Christmas! Looks like you had some fun with the boat. I love it!