Our city celebrates Labor Day weekend every year with its heritage celebration called “Tomato Days.” It is a two day celebration, that started with a flag raising ceremony on Saturday. Ricky and Billy were in the children’s choir that performed that morning.
It was a really cute show and they sang some fun songs.
Billy really loved singing “God Bless the USA.”
And Ricky loved the rap song the 6th grade teacher wrote.
You can see what we recorded of the singing HERE – it is about 14 minutes.
The parade was on Monday. I was setting up the PTA’s booth at the park, but was able to slip away and watch the parade since all 6 of my menfolk were in it.
Our church Primary did a tomato float and needed adults, so Kevin got to join the fun. I was sitting with my friend and we got pelted with candy as those tomatoes went by!
I really love a small town parade!
I was working the booth all day. It was a “History of Hooper School” booth with almost 30 years of old year books and pictures of the school a hundred years ago. We sold a few t-shirts and talked to a lot of older people who remembered the old school and wanted to share their memories with me. It was a good day.
While I was doing that, Kevin was playing with the boys. They ate corn dogs and the younger ones rode the train…
I caught up with them for a few minutes on my lunch break and Bobby was loving that train! He was NOT pleased when his turn was over!
The older boys got to do a few more adventurous activities, including this spinning bar jumper thing. That’s Billy catching some serious air! Ricky kept trying until they called him out (HERE) and Rusty spent some time crouching on his podium as the spinning bar passed over his back (HERE)!
It was a good day and Kevin was a good sport with me being gone all day.