On Thursday, July 21st we Sanfordians celebrated Pioneer day. This is one of my favorite holidays, it is a super fun day. It starts off with a breakfast at 6am, but we are usually sleeping so we skip that part. Every year we get the boys matching cowboy shirts, so here are this years. This year it is awesome because we found one for Logan as well, so I am sure that picture will make the next post on the blog. My cowboys are handsome!!
The parade starts at 10 am. Maggie and Cahl are waiting for the parade to start. Maggie really loves little chairs lately, so she loved sitting in her chair.
Each auxilary gets to pair up with another one and they get to do a float. I am in the primary presidency and one of the perks of my calling is working on the float. The primary was paired up with the Elders quorom and this is our float. The theme this year was " Put your shoulder to the wheel." We took a line from the song, "The church has need of helping hands" and used this for our theme. I know the picture isn't that great, it is supposed to be a garden with the watering can watering it. We cut out all the primary kids hands and put them on the fence. There are some flowers and kids in our garden.
McCray had his choice of riding on the float or riding his bike, guess which one he chose??
Porter wanted to join in the festivities, so he followed us to the parade .
After the parade, the town has a BBQ at noon, primary games at the church at 1:30. Our ward was in charge of the games this year, so no pictures, sorry, it was raining and I was busy helping kids. The games were fun, we had potatoe sack races, stick pull, watermelon eating contest, water baloon baseball and a tug of war. After the primary games, there are the foot races. They have age group races. This year Cahl actually participated and came in a really close second. He was happy because he got a sucker, YEAH!!
Last year McCray took first place and defended his title this year and won!! If you win first place you get a pop, he chose Mtn. Dew, his dad was so proud! After the foot races there was a pie eating contest, egg toss and then a greased pig chase. They grease up two pigs and let them loose on the softball field. Whoever catches the pigs wins them!! It is really fun to watch the kids chase them. No pigs for us this year, but maybe next. After the races is a break and then a family dance at the church. We usually skip the dance because we have tired kids, so I am sure we have that to look forward to in our future. This year was really fun because it was the first one in like 5 years that Logan was able to attend. Manassa is tomorrow to continue the pioneer celebration, we need a day to recooperate, so onto more festivities tomorrow!!
