HERE'S WHAT WE ARE MISSING THIS WEEKEND. . .

Okay, I have to admit it, even though I try really hard to keep this blog very positive and upbeat, I'm so sad and I just have to share some thoughts about why. This is the annual Brigham City Peach Days Celebrations.

This has been a HUGE part of my life for as long as I can remember. I loved Brigham and I loved the house that I grew up in because to me it seemed that we were right in the middle of the whole celebration. We were a short walk east up to the parade where I usually sat with my friend, Lisa, on the roof of her house to watch the best parade in the whole world (or so it seemed). We were one block north of the carnival. Usually we would have to walk past it on our way to and from Central School where I attended 5th & 6th grades. We would get SOOOO excited when we would see it being set up on Thursday. The anticipation was too much!!! At night was I lay in bed after spending time at the carnival I could see the glow of the lights and hear the sounds of the carnival and people screaming from going on the Hammer or the Ferris Wheel or the Tilt-A-Whirl. Oh, I do love Brigham City and I love, love, love Peach Days!!!!

I never missed a Peach Days in all of my youth until the year that I met Brad (1983). My cousin just happend to have her wedding reception in Star Valley, WY that same weekend and it nearly killed me to miss it.

After Brad and I got married and had kids I took on his passion for the Scuba Burgers. I really had never experienced that before but let me share this with you: The Brigham City Search and Rescue team has a fund raiser each Peach Days by selling "Scuba Burgers". They are the yummiest things ever!!! Brad lovingly refers to them as "Slim Burgers". The smell of the grilling right in the center of town at the court house parking lot fills the entired downtown area. Oh man, good stuff!!!
We left Utah 8 years ago and since that time we've only been to one Peach days and that was last year. It was so much fun going to the parade with my family, running into friends that we hadn't see in years and just being in my home town of Brigham City. It was just o much fun just to be there again. They say that you can never go home but I think that Peach Days will always make me feel like a kid in grade school. It's kinda like Christmas morning the way it makes me feel. What a great place to grow up and what a fun way to be a kid!!