May the Fourth be with you!

July 4th at the Marable's always consists of the Valley Mills Parade. Valley Mills is a tiny town outside of Waco. Our family has made a float 3 previous years and we have won first place everytime. Most of the floats are trailers with hay or wagons with kids in it....nothing extravagant. Ours, on the other hand, is WAY over the top! This year we had 2 trailors hooked together and as you can see Brandon built the star wars space ship thing. I am not a Star Wars person, so I don't know the names of all the people, but you can see many were present on our float. The theme was "may the fourth be with you". Get it??

Anyway...we had this huge float with 26 people on it. We had two canons that shot ticker paper and candy and we had a portable mike and pc so his grandma could sing "God Bless America". It was, once again, over the top!

Much to your shock as well as ours...we didn't win!!! We lost to a trailor of 10 year old softball players on hay bails. Seriously! We think it was rigged :)

Or we think that Valley Mills was mad at us for littering the city with all that paper! It was so much paper that we shot out!

However, we once again had a great time...Emery Kate slept through the whole thing! Maybe she will enjoy it next year when we take home the prize!!!