Country Cousins float building

 It's been a long time since we entered a float in the parade.  I think we did it 9 years in a row, winning first place every year-until the last one, I think that was about 2007 maybe.  The kids were getting a little older and were kind of rowdy that year and they threw candy at Miss Knuth, one of the judges, and oops, the Boy Scouts won. 

We have a new group of little ones now so we decided to do it again.  We have a lot of fun building the float as a family, using only materials we have and trying not to buy anything. 

The Country Cousins - Cale, Brock, Tierney, Auna and Rielee holding Tor.  Parker, Jillian and Bridget worked also,  James had practice but came up later.  Cathy was our float designer,  Dan U. barbecued for us, Bob was the videographer, Dan and Michael helped as did Robin, Julie, Rick, Gabe, Des, Alan,  Papa and I.