Monroe's 24th Celebration

I absolutely love living in Monroe, Utah.  The city does a great job with its celebration of Pioneer Day.  The celebration kicked off on Saturday, July 21st with a 3 on 3 basketball tourney.  Brooke and Brin participated this year.  They did a great job and had a lot of fun.

Brooke going up for the rebound.

 

Brin playing some defense.

The next event was the Children's Parade held on July 23rd.  Chloe was the only one that wanted to be in the parade.  She dressed like an Indian girl and rode her scooter or as she calls it "her 'tooter".

The Thornock girls with our neighbor's girls waiting for the parade.

The funny thing about this picture is that Chloe was suppose to be back in the back with all the bikes and scooters, but somehow she wiggled herself to the front of the parade.  That's my girl.

After the parade, there was a community BBQ.  But I was so hungry that I didn't even take a photo of that event. My mind was solely on the food.  It was so good. 

The next morning, there is always a 5 mile run, 5k, or 1 mile run.  I have never participated, but I woke up at 5 am that morning to go place our chairs on main street for the parade and I couldn't go back to sleep.  So as I laid in bed not being able to sleep, I made up my mind to go run the 5k. I am in great biking shape, but haven't ran since January.  

What do you know? I came in 19th overall and 3rd in my age group.  Not too bad for not running.  I biked 107 miles on Saturday and didn't feel sore at all.  I ran this 5k, and I can still barely walk as of today.  I won a prize for coming in 3rd in my age bracket.....$2.   Love it.

My bro-in-law Jeff was pulled by his daughter Nova in the 1 mile stroller division.  She came in 1st!!!

Nova was all tuckered out after the big race and huge victory.

Wait what is behind that blanket?  Nova fell asleep grasping her Gold Medal.  How freaking cute is that?

Jenna ran the 5 mile race.  Again this is after she rode 107 miles with me on Sat.  She ended up winning her age group and coming in 2nd Overall of all the women.  Pretty amazing!

They had a raffle and I won this M&M hat.

Then we were off to the 24th Parade.

My girls with the neighbors.  They all wearing these cute cute headbands made by my talented wife!

Before the parade started, Chloe was dancing away to the music.

Our seats for the parade.

Carson got to ride in the parade with the rest of the South Sevier Baseball All-Stars.  He had a ball....(Get it?)

That afternoon, Chloe and I went swimming in our swimming pool.  Here we are laying out getting dry.

 That night we headed up to the Middle School Football Field for Fireworks.  We went up around 8 pm to socialize and listen to the live band.  They have a big raffle.  Julie ended up winning two tickets to the movie theater.  Her brother Jeff won a Mary Kay beauty kit. Haha.  The fireworks were great.  It was a great celebration.