IT'S A HOMETOWN HOLIDAY PARADE.....GOTTA LOVE MY TOWN

My hometown is so cool, our mayor is all about community.    I want to invite you to Woodbridge, NJ and our yearly Holiday Parade held on Main Street....yep that's right we have a Main Street and it is our downtown business district filled with restaurants, shops and hopefully the new home for Lucky 7 Design in the Spring.

Enjoy the parade and look out for Santa.............

Our train station overpass

Our stage, with our Municipal Clerk at the helm

American Legion...Woodbridge is very supportive of their veterans (new/old) and being a wife of a veteran I take pride and respect that of our local goverment.

Baseball Mascot

The Ragtimers

Local Dance School float

Cool cars

Cool motorcycles

Our wonderful men in uniform...the Woodbridge Fire Department

A vintage ambulance

Girls scouts (my daughter's troop) 

She is the petite one on the right carrying the banner

High School Band

Colonial Group

Sweet father/daughter moment

Vintage cars

This was so cool

Nothing better than the sound of live bagpipers 

A horse riding family...see we have cowboys in Jersey!

OMG....my favorite car and color

The Fallen Hero truck...created in honor of fallen police officers

She was having a good time

Here comes Santa Claus....Here comes Santa Claus....right down  Main Street

Santa & Mrs. Claus waving to the locals

My girls had a blast watching their sister in the parade and seeing the arrival of Santa Claus

This was a highlight of my day at the parade....yes a potato on a stick!   

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM

 LUCKY 7 DESIGN

-MJ

PUMPKIN PAINTING....AT A PRINTING PRESS????

On Wednesday afternoon, I took my children (yep, all 5 of them) to a community event in my town of Woodbridge, New Jersey.    They were holding a Pumpkin Painting event for the kids....and it was FREE.

The event was held at a little spot in town called Parker Press, it's in the heart of our township and now the hosting spot of many activities for the community.    It is quaint and has an old town charm to it so I had to snap some pics while my Picasso's were in the moment.  Or as my son said while he was painting "I'm like the modern day DaVinci"...yes he is the one who will be a politician one day...or a lawyer.   Not shy, loves to talk and gets his point across.  I'll probably be his campaign manager and definitely his event planner. LOL

The front grounds of Parker Press

The building

I love the pathway to the building

The Bell

Ghosts in the tree

My kiddos and their pumpkins

Buggy didn't paint one but she learned the work "pumpkin" today! Yay!

The artists at work

Still going....

#1's pumpkin

#2's pumpkin

#4's pumpkin

Here is my crew and their pumpkins.

I have to say that as much as I want to escape the city and move to SC someday.  Living where I do in a historic town, gives me that hometown feel with all the perks of city life.  Big shout out to Mayor John E. McCormac for all that he has brought to our town, the activities, the sense of community, the pride.

For info on Parker Press you can click HERE

and you can click above (on the word town) for more about our township.  

-MJ