12/14/2024
Had PIGTASTIC fun in the Booneville Christmas Parade last night!! 🎄🎊🐷🐽🚲🎊🎄
🎊🐖 Princess Peanut, looking Princessy~Precious in her Christmas dress❤️💚, and Pepa Faith, always Pepa-Pretty!, pigfectly-cozy in a Christmas Snowgirl sweater ⛄️, did a PIGTASTIC job being PIGassadors for all their piggo siblings and piggos everywhere!🐽🥜❤️🐷👑 Even Murphy had a great time strutting his stuff, smiling big, and wagging his tail while borrowing his human brother’s Rudolph Christmas sweater 🔴🦌and sporting a Christmas-bulb neckalce! **Piggy mom fail: I forgot the girls’ Christmas tree🎄🎄, and Murphy’s reindeer antler🦌, headbands on the table two nights before the parade - set out so I would remember to pack them - where they got soaked in the snow and didn’t dry in time for the parade. While Princess Peanut was not happy that she didn’t have her Christmas headband, they all three smiled big and spread their HOGliday (and doggy!) joy!!
🎊🚲 The bike was a lot of fun to decorate and hopefully represented this year’s parade theme: “Festival of Lights” with lights on the arches and back basket, and a reflective garland of Christmas-bulb shaped decoration! Also, our sign was proudly illuminated with piggy shaped lights! 🎄🐖
Thank you to Owsley Co. for letting Wilbur Pepper Mini Pig Sanctuary take part in the parade & to Sherri Brewer, and Nick & Nolan Fletcher — who are wonderfully active volunteers with the Sanctuary — for helping represent all our fantastic piggo residents! 🐖🎄 Thank you, Ms. Sherri, for riding the Bunch bike so Mom could carry Princess Peanut part of the time and stand next to her while she rode in the basket on the back of the bike the rest of the time! (Ms. Sherri said she liked having Princess Peanut there because her little b***y was a good back warmer! Lol!)🎄🎊 To the boys for carrying the sign! 🐖 & Nolan for being a wonderful elf! ~ You all added to the Christmas spirit and fun!!
❤️🎊❤️Thank you also to each person who made the parade possible! 💛Sherri Brewer, who in addition to taking a part in the parade was a complete answer to prayer, showing up at the Sanctuary just in time to help push the Bunch bike up a very muddy driveway (no easy task!! and one I don’t think I would have been able to manage by myself!) before bravely taking Pepa Faith and Murphy in her van to meet Princess Peanut and I at the parade start; and for the warm ride home after the parade! 💛Huff & Daughters for sponsoring the Christmas lights to decorate our bike and sign with!! 💛Dedria Morgan for donating the skirt that made Princess Peanut’s Christmas dress, and for taking time to find, and let us borrow, decorations for the bike! 💛Nora Ragan for the Christmas ribbon, hot glue and use of her glue gun to make the reflective Christmas-bulb decor! 💛Sheila Dooley for all her help - from playing middle-lady for us to get the decor to opening the Life Center and patiently waiting while we unloaded the bike last night! 💛Booneville United Methodist Church for letting us park our bike at the Life Center last night so we didn’t have to ride home in the dark! 💛And to each of our friends and community members who came out to say Merry Christmas and who wished us well in the parade!
God bless you all! 🎊🎄❤️🐖❤️🎄🎊
