Sometimes doing your civic duty means being in a parade!

Small Town USA, yep, that's where we live.  Actually, it's Stephenville, Texas.

In our little corner of the world, we have a parade on July 4th!  Given the size of the community, about 15 thousand people, we have a huge parade!  There have to be a few hundred floats (that includes trucks, cars and horses) plus we have thousands of people sit along the main street and watch.

It is a lot of fun.  I have wonderful memories of the parade growing up. I was in it as the Statue of Liberty on year, I twirled batons for a few years and rode for various clubs and organizations. Now we are passing these moments and memories on to our kids.

This year, we were supposed to be at the lake house with my family for the 4th, but given that I serve on the public library advisory board and we were in the parade, we came home early.

We used Doug's big red truck and one of the ladies on the Friend's board made signs.  I had bookmarks made and off we went!

The following pictures were taken by Bill.  A friend of ours who rode in the truck with Doug and Kylie while his wife walked and passed out bookmarks and his daughter waved to the crowd. Thanks Bill! 

 

Look at that tiny girl on that horse!

Kylie isn't too impressed with the parade!

 We ran out of bookmarks way too fast, but we had a great time.  It was fun to hear the crowds cheer for the public library!

We've decided next year, we will get tons more bookmarks made and recruit more walkers!

See, sometimes doing your civic duty can be fun!