Happy Belated Memorial day! As a veterans wife these holidays that honor our troops are always near and dear to my heart. I would like to start off this post by thanking the service men and women that gave their life for this great nation, and to their families. Words fail to express the magnitude of my gratitude.
One of my favorite part of these patriotic holidays is always seeing communities come together to celebrate the wonderful things about America. Living in such a diverse city like Los Angeles sometimes these holidays go almost unnoticed. You see the crowds at the beach and the park but not a lot of the community celebrations you see in small town america. I am very happy to report that about a year ago we moved to the La Crescenta/La Cañada/Montrose area of Los Angeles. A small town within a huge city and now I get all the perks of a tight knit community!
This year was my first ever Memorial day parade thanks to the La Cañada fiesta days celebration! It's a weekend long celebration that includes community breakfasts, day at the park, movie at the park, culminating on Memorial day with a parade and fire works at night!
This year due to bed time restrictions we skipped the fireworks - but hope to make it next year!
Chloe went all out for the occasion. Holidays are so much more fun now that she understands and gets in the spirit!!
It was great to see our community come together for this day either as spectators or being a part of the parade which consisted of local preschools, schools, rescue teams, etc..Even the local Lil Gym paraded!
It's these type of things that remind me just how wonderful this country is. Where people from all backgrounds, religion, color, race, come together to celebrate the gift given to us by the heroes that selflessly put their country before themselves.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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