Boonville Christmas Parade 2015

I'm so blessed that the town of Boonville hosts a parade for my birthday!  HAHA!

Another perfect day for another parade.  Is this December weather really happening?  We rode on the WOW! float again this year in the parade.  One of these years, I'm going to actually watch the parade and not be in it.  It's a really long parade and those kids on the street get ALOT of candy! HAHA!

Thanks to a photog friend for capturing this picture of us in the parade!

I copied the following from my Facebook page where I had posted it on Monday:

The craziest thing, and a HUGE blessing, happened to us yesterday while at the Boonville parade. My car was parked about two and a half blocks away from the HS, and just off one of the main roads that runs through Boonville, from where we were in the parade line up. After we parked, I had the liftgate open to the back and was getting all of our parade gear out of the back, and then shut the liftgate, locked the car, and we walked to our float. After the parade was over, about 2 hours after we got there, we were headed back to the car and I noticed the liftgate was wide open. I instantly started getting stomach cramps and was afraid of what could of been. In the back, I had my camera bag with over $1,000 camera and lens in it, Gavin's bag with his Kindle in it, my purse with lots of cash and my debit cards and all ID's, Shawn's wallet was in the glove box. Thankfully the good Lord was protecting my car and our belongings, cause EVERYTHING was still in there! I've never been so happy in all my life! I know that I shut the liftgate, cause my car wouldn't beep if I locked it with the gate still open, and I'm so anal about hearing that beep multiple times when I lock it. Somewhere between the keys handoff between Shawn and I while on the float, I'm assuming the liftgate button got pushed, but I surely wouldn't think it would work from two and a half blocks away. I'll definitely be more careful with those keys that's for sure! Thank you Jesus!!

An Early Morning Drive

A couple weekends ago, I got up early on a Saturday morning, not as early as I planned, but early enough, and ventured out to get some donuts at the Pioneer Bakery in Boonville and then did some driving around on the backroads around my house.  I found a couple new roads to travel and found lots of photo ops.  Now I just need to get a bigger zoom lens to capture more upclose photos!

Poppin' Caps!

I can't even believe I partook in this activity today!  I have a huge fear of guns because they are so dangerous and they scare me! 

 

Heather was taking me home this afternoon after our day of Zoe's birthday fun and when we were almost to my house I texted Shawn to see what he was doing.  He said Bowen and Brent had just picked him up and they were going out to Izaak Walton's shooting range.  Heather mentioned that we should follow them out there cause she was wanting to know where it was, and I wanted to go to make sure my husband didn't buy us a membership there, so I said let's go.

 

Since our friend's have become members out there, Shawn wants to join too...but just for fishing in their lakes.  Haha!!  I just thought we were going to drive around out there to see the property and what all the it has to offer.  The next thing I knew, we were pulled over at one of the pistol shooting areas and poppin' caps!  LOL!  I shot 3 or 4 different guns, but I have no idea what they were.  I just remember one of them having a casing flying out  as I thought it and thinking, did that just ping me on my sunglasses?  and the other one kind of startling me because of it's power, but I think that's the one I hit close to the center target with.

 

I will admit that it was pretty fun, but we won't be buying guns anytime soon!

 

And yes, it took all three of them to unlock the gate and sign us in!!  Or was it Brent unlocked the gate, Bowen signed us in, and Shawn supervised?!?!  HAHA!!

 

Happy Trick-or-Treat Day!!!

Halloween this year was a little bit different that it usually is.  Yeah, it was still on October 31, but the weather was supposed to be really bad that evening so a lot of cities postponed trick-or-treating until Friday, except Rockport. 

 

I had already planned on trick-or-treating with Gavin this year instead of helping Shawn pass out candy at Boo in Boonville.  However because of the weather, I was able to do both this year :)

 

Thursday I left work early and went to pick up Beth, Gavin, and Tommy for some trick-or-treating fun!  Our first stop was at a church in Rockport for a trunk-or-treat evening.  They had some candy stations, free hot dogs and water, and then had a few prize giveaways.

 

The "Scary Skeleton"

 

  

 

After we left the trunk-or-treat event, we trick-or-treated a few houses near the church, then went to Aunt Dobie's and to Nan's before I dropped them off and headed home.

 

 

Boo in Boonville!!

 

 

 

My friends Heather and Brandi's kids....Kaid as Abe, Zoe as zebra kitty?, and Kassidy as a gumball machine :)

 

And some of my outside fall decorations (pictures taken with my junk cell phone, so the quality isn't that good!)