{"id":1335,"date":"2009-05-13T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2010-10-24T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:40:07","slug":"rooster-days-our-annual-trip-to-the-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/rooster-days-our-annual-trip-to-the-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooster Days {our annual trip to the parade}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We&#8217;ve gone to the Rooster Days Parade every year since Biggest Brother was 2 months old. It makes me feel like I live in a really small town&#8230;which I like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;waiting patiently for us to get all our gear together so we could leave for the parade&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I find myself taking the majority of my pictures close up of the boys (like this one of Littlest Brother waiting in his stroller),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">so I challenged myself to do more wide angles while at the parade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The older boys broke it down when the band started coming their way. Big Brother really does have other shirts, he just prefers to wear this one every other day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I gave up a long time ago trying to convince him otherwise&#8230;or trying to hide it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Littlest Brother was mezmorized by the parade<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Look there&#8217;s Papa!&#8221; Chris&#8217; dad tried to convince the boys to ride with him, but they were afraid of missing out on the ice cream BlueBell passes out.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BlueBell IceCream&#8230;the real reason we go to the parade every year. So much better than candy.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It started raining towards the end, so the boys hid under our blanket&#8230;they came out quickly when they realized they were missing out on candy being passed out.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/5.09\/5.09roosterdays-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We then walked home&#8230;which I am beginning to feel like is our own version of a parade for our neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve gone to the Rooster Days Parade every year since Biggest Brother was 2 months old. It makes me feel like I live in a really small town&#8230;which I like. &#8230;waiting patiently for us to get all our gear together so we could leave for the parade&#8230; I find myself taking the majority of my pictures close up of the boys (like this one of Littlest Brother waiting in his stroller), so I challenged myself to do more wide angles while at the parade&#8230; The older boys broke it down when the band started coming their way. Big Brother really does have other shirts, he just prefers to wear this one every other day. I gave up a long time ago trying to convince him otherwise&#8230;or trying to hide it. Littlest Brother was mezmorized by the parade &#8220;Look there&#8217;s Papa!&#8221; Chris&#8217; dad tried to convince the boys to ride with him, but they were afraid of missing out on the ice cream BlueBell passes out. BlueBell IceCream&#8230;the real reason we go to the parade every year. So much better than candy. It started raining towards the end, so the boys hid under our blanket&#8230;they came out quickly when they realized they were missing out on candy being passed out. We then walked home&#8230;which I am beginning to feel like is our own version of a parade for our neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7660,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/7660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}