Payson Onion Days

Every Labor day weekend, Payson holds it's annual Onion Days celebration... something to do with their onion crops during the depression?? maybe... anyway, our family tradition is to always go to the Carnival on friday night (family night), and we have a lot of fun... the girls were excited to be tall enough this year to go on some of the scary rides and it was Zach's first year to go one some rides too! Claire's favorite ride is the MerryGoRound and was SOOO excited that they had one (but I think my camera died before I got pics of her on it with Kate and Caitlyn, oops!) Some of the other festivities (that we took part in) was the Onion Days parade, we became part of a new tradition, our friends (and new Bishop) live on Main street on the parade route, so a bunch of us brought chairs and a potluck breakfast before the parade, fun. I have to say though, this year was the first year the parade was rained out (in at least 35 years- we even got hail) So as we all retreated to watch from the garage, it was almost more entertaining to watch the riders of the floats ducking under whatever they could, pieces of the floats, baskets, whatever. The funniest thing was the football team from our new local high school hovering together shivering and whining, yeah, they are tough! And of course we felt bad for the princess courts in their skimpy formals in the hail, and the barefoot Lavender days fairies! hahahahaha... entertaining. And of course, Chris, Isabelle, and I entered the Onion days bake-off--- for more on that, check out Chris' blog... all I have to say is we all came home with medals, and if you want something sweet- come visit me! What a fun weekend.