Opening Day Parade

I am finally getting around to blogging the opening day parade for our baseball/softball league.

I have mentioned that this is the league for our subdivision. There is also a city league. And I would guess there were at least (I am guessing here) 50 teams with boys and girls from t-ball to older kids.

Well we all meet up with our respective teams very early.

And when I say early, I mean 7:30am and the significance of this is that we both slept through our alarms which is really weird for us. Chris woke up at 7:10 and if you can picture a frantic family trying to get two kids completely ready, dressed in uniforms grabbing a snack and putting a hat on my head, that was us.

Amazingly we made it! If they were not at the first drop off point on time, they didn't get to ride.
Laybug's team. They are the yellowjackets.
Once all the kids were together, they had to drive to the outlet mall at the front of the subdivision to line up for the parade.
The angels. At this point, daddy is riding with the girls, I dropped Batman off with his team and I am on my bike looking for a good place to take pictures on the parade route.


Batman's team posed themselves before loading on the truck!
Chris took a picture of me from the truck, taking pictures of them.
How many guys does it take to tie a banner on a truck?
The streets are lined.
A fire truck starts us off.
Silly string and candy are the items of choice on the trucks.

Here come the yellowjackets.



Cars just lined up!
Some had some elaborate trucks.



Then we all head to the baseball fields for opening remarks and the first baseball and first softball pitch.






Very fun morning. We headed to McAlister's for some lunch because I was starved! Then home to take a much needed shower before heading back out to the fields for games for each child.

Funny, Nathan has not taken a nap in a long time (excpet when he was sick). So he was fine, but by the afternoon games, all the kids were exhausted and most were coming with sleepy eyes from just waking up and my kids were just ready to go. In fact the team we played for Batman's game called the game early because his kids were so tired.