Lighted Parade

The Red Bud Chamber added a lighted Christmas parade to their Holiday Happenings/Deer Fest. I wasn't hip on the idea of watching Christmas lights a week BEFORE Thanksgiving, but it ended up being a really cute little parade. The number of floats were perfect for the cold weather.

 

 (We can't go anywhere without at least one car or truck. Tonight we hauled "my red truck" and "my FerFer car" to the parade)

 

We headed to LoLo and John-John's for tasty appetizers after the parade. We stuffed our bellies, warmed our toes and watched Austin perform his first ever rock band concert. He was really getting into it, as you can see...

 He ended the show by rocking the violin guitar and singing us a little ditty...

 

As  everyone knows, our lives changed forever shortly after we left LoLo's that night. I look at these pictures and see happy people. People untouched by tragedy. People who don't know how lucky they are. I know that we'll be happy again someday, but I also know we'll always have a hole in our heart that will never be filled. Thankfully we have our little Rocker to help us (and make us) carry on. You can't hide from the world when you have a two-year-old constantly pulling on your sleeve! I'm sure CC wouldn't want it any other way!