Memorial Day Parade

We've been watching the Memorial Day Parade here in Union from our friends' Megan and Greg's front porch for the past three years now (I think I have apostrophes all in the wrong place in that sentence!).

The first year we watched from their house, I was pregnant and brought McDonald's breakfast with me. :)

Last year, Kate had chubby cheeks and very little hair. But, she was awfully cute holding her little flag and chewing on her stroller strap.

This year, our "baby" girl was an all out parade expert!! She knew just what to do . At one point, I looked at her and she had a sucker in her mouth, a balloon in one hand, and was waving her flag with the other hand.

She danced and clapped and collected candy.

The crazy girl had sucker juice running all down her chin!!

All of a sudden, it started POURING. Lucky for us, Megan and Greg are right on the parade route, so we could still watch from the porch.

I love that picture. All the conversation and community that's going on. And, you gotta love Ryan with a video camera. And the fact that Greg is the only one who knows a picture was being taken. And Megan and Greg's cute house.

I think she was waiting for the "ok" to go back out to the sidewalk.

And this... well, this will basically sum up Kate Rileigh Roskowske for you right here. After the rain stopped, Mark took her back out to the sidewalk and she knelt down and stinkin' drank water from a PUDDLE IN THE ROAD! Like a dog!

This was the aftermath.


I told ya she was crazy!