Sunday, July 27

laie day parade

instead of pioneer day celebrations around these parts we have "laie days", which always has a "big" parade and "lots" of candy.  in all the years that i have lived here, i had never been to watch one of the parades, if i had known there was candy involved, i probably would have been here every year.
pioneer's hawaii style- please make note of the awesome cow pulling the wagon and the baby totally crashed in it's mom's lap.
luke's favorite- complete with surfboard on top and blow up pool in the backmy favorite(s)- those samoan's really know how to decorate a truck and trailer, these are two of the samoan wards "floats"
velzy's favorite (she ate too much, of course.  today she threw up on me, and said that it was because she had too much candy in her tummy yesterday....)
and, the little tree hugger (who also ate too much candy, but like her mom is not phased by taking in amazingly too much sugar)
and sorry connie for eating the tootsie rolls, but they were really good.

13 comments:

Molly Malia said...

hey, love the sun and surf mobile!
that is a great picture of vz by the way... she is actually smiling! it may just be the bag of candy tho.

The Bradys said...

lol love it.... so much fun! and how cute is ivys hair!!

mahina said...

that looks like so much fun! and i agree, those samoans really know how to decorate! wow! you're girls are so cute!

Aubrey Jane said...

We love a good parade and all the candy that goes with it! Looks like fun!

Da Denninghoff's said...

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chanel said...

how fun! its weird how your girls can be so different even when it comes to consuming candy huh? Mine are the exact same way! Older one can't handle it, little takes it like her mama- in bus loads.

Stephanie said...

Ahh, how I miss that parade and man they sure do throw out a lot of candy. Velzy are you sure you don't want to share?

Melissa said...

yeah i saw it as we were driving out to a birthday and a small part of me really wished that I could stay for the candy. i've never seen it either. we always seem to be gone around parade time.

JulieAbundo said...

Ah memories. I've actually been in the "Laie days" parade a number of times. Gotta love the candy though...that's the best part.

Anonymous said...

Oh the parades. I remember them being almost daily when we lived in our box/palace. There was always a band cruising down Kulanui celebrating something. Oh the love...

stef j. said...

adore velzy's bag ... did you make it??

ashley said...

steph-
won the bag on a friends blog- super cute huh?

Candace said...

the perfect parade bag! love seeing my stuff out in the world.