Nevada Day....

There is nothing more awesome to kids than to have Halloween off every year from school! Oh, wait, it's not Halloween... it's NEVADA DAY! We love Nevada Day. There is always a parade. Some years it is beautiful weather, other years it is FREEZING! Like this year! Well, technically it wasn't freezing, but it was close.... 40 degrees isn't exactly basking in the warmth! Add in the wind off and on and you get a cold, cold day! Thank goodness for hot chocolate! With real whipped cream!

Shayne and Kerry and their family showed up too so we got to hang out with them for a while.

Kalli, Kami and Cereta cheesing for me between collecting lots of candy!

The kids always get way too much candy at the Nevada Day parade!
Silly Caitlyn, it was freezing outside and she wore these shoes... no socks! BRRRRR! Maybe it's not as cold in Idaho so she just brought her summer shoes??? :)
Trying to stay warm before the parade started!

Sweet Ella!

Handing out candy!

Willie...

Nathaniel and Kimi...

Jace, Thayne and Caitlyn.... and yummy hot chocolate!

We love our military!

Even the Ely band came!

Willie, Harlon, Wyatt and Jarom... living life in small town America! It's the best!!!!

Jace trying to avoid the camera...

Kimi and her little buddy!

Jace STILL trying to avoid the camera!

CANDY!!!!!! And a sweet car!

GOLD COUNTRY!

Hey Wyatt, is that hot chocolate yummy?

Hayden, Jarom, Kalli and Kami

Ella wasn't so sure she liked being out in the cold!

Kerry and Ella

Best Buddies... Kimi and Kailee! It's a great thing to have your best friend be your sister too!

Jarom, Kalli and Cereta excited for the parade!

Jarom, Willie and Jayson

Jace asked Nater's if he wanted to go with him to town. Nate shook his head yes. We told him we were leaving earlier than he was and would he be okay with that. He shook his head yes again but kind of watched us leave the house like he wasn't so sure he was getting the good end of the deal. We got to the top of the hill and saw him standing there watching us... we waved and told him goodbye and he blew us kisses and yelled bye, but he looked so all alone standing there!

Home Means Nevada
Written & Music by Bertha Raffetto


Way out in the land of the setting sun,
Where the wind blows wild and free,
There's a lovely spot, just the only one
That means home sweet home to me.
If you follow the old Kit Carson trail,
Until desert meets the hills,
Oh you certainly will agree with me,
It's the place of a thousand thrills.

Home means Nevada
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pine.
Out by the Truckee, silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
Here is the land which I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Deep in the heart of the golden west
Home means Nevada to me.

Whenever the sun at the close of day,
Colors all the western sky,
Oh my heart returns to the desert grey
And the mountains tow'ring high.
Where the moon beams play in shadowed glen,
With the spotted fawn and doe,
All the live long night until morning light,
Is the loveliest place I know.

Home means Nevada
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pines.
Out by the Truckee's silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
There is the land that I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Right in the heart of the golden west
Home means Nevada to me.