The Day's of 47 Youth Parade

Our Stake was asked to be in the youth parade this year. Craig and I were asked about a month ago if we would be on the committee. We had a great time. Our theme was "Let their Courage Light your Way. We made this float and then had the primary kids walk behind the float carrying a huge ballon. We have six wards in our stake so each ward was assigned a color of the rainbow. The kids each brought a name of a pioneer in their family or one they had read about and we wrote that name on the balloon. We were hoping for about 3o kids from each ward but we had a huge turn out. We ended up with about 270 kids walking. (this didn't includes the parents.) We were quite the site and our picture of the kids ended up in both newspapers here in Salt Lake. I have included some picture so you can kind of get an idea of what it looked like.

Craig and I were purple with our ward. Anna, Zach and Kayla were yellow because we had one ward that didn't have as many kids as some of the other wards.
We had one little glitch at the parade. We were supposed to arrive early to start blowing up these balloons before the kids arrived but the end to the helium tank got left so we weren't able to start until a half hour before the parade started. With lots of help from parents we got the last balloon done as we were signaled to start marching. This is a view of the ballons from just behing the float.
This Zach and his friend Andrew. You can kind of see Anna behind the boys.
This is Kayla waiting for the parade to begin.
Our ward was purple and the last of the balloons.