St. Patrick’s Day Parade

| March 13, 2016

Yesterday was the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Springfield. Sam loves a parade so we took her. It was a good distraction from what has been going on around here. It was a typical parade, full of lots of people walking and some cars, and fire trucks. We got a good spot, but Sam was complaining that she couldn’t see so I held her pretty much the whole time. Of course, in the 10 minutes I think Mark held her when I wanted to put her down for a while, the newspaper came and took their picture. Again. Sam and Mark were going to be in the paper. Again. Almost a year to the day from when they were in the paper at the sledding hill. Well, she is a cutie pie, and who can resist taking a picture of an adorable redhead on St. Patrick’s Day?

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And I did make sure she was appropriately decked out in St. Paddy’s Day gear!

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Mark was nice enough to run and get us ice cream from Sam’s favorite soft serve shop on the block where we were standing.

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My favorite parade going pair. 🙂

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We stayed for about 2 hours and Sam was cold and tired of standing, so we went home. She was so cold that Mark lent her his vest. She was a bit overwhelmed by it, to say the least, but she did say she was warm!

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