My 3 Stripling Warriors

So on the 24th of July Parade, our boys got to participate in the 2000 Stripling Warriors March.  It was so cool.  So the Relief Society cut out all of their costumes.  And they were all given a staff to decorate if they would like.  Of course my boys loved that part and went to Hobby Lobby and picked out all things gross like furs and feathers and covered my house in floating fur and bits of feathers.  Our stake said all young men ages 12 to 25 could march.  Javie didn't quite make the cut-off but I guess our Young Mens leader had a hard time saying no when he asked him. Haha, Javie should be a lawyer when he grows up, he is quite the little persuasive artist.  (alas his mom's dreams for him are going up in flames, he wants to be a stunt double or a trapeze artist).  Anyway, it went down like this.  There were two men on horses that were dressed like Nephites that were leading them.  One of them carried The Title of Liberty up front for everybody to see.  Then there were 2 city blocks completely full of marching young men.  It was crazy.  They had a huge speaker in the middle of them playing We are as the Armies of Helaman song.  Then all the boys sang along with it and did some sort of staff stomp at the end of the song each time.  Dax said everytime he looked at the crowd there were cameras everywhere he looked.  He said he never looked up once without seeing one.  He also said there people crying everywhere.  Well I thought it was pretty cool and it would be sweet to see, but I did not expect to be so overwhelmed with the Spirit.  I was bawling like a little girl.  I looked over and there was Trita with her head in her hands just sobbing.  I think it touched a lot of people.  So crazy to see so many valiant young men and think back to how the moms must have felt back then.  Crazy and unexpectedly cool experience for the Davis triplets.