Flag Day 2011

So, often as it has it, we were asked to help with an event at my work.

This time it was for Flag Day. They wanted to have a big flag raising ceremony with the scouts and then they asked if we would sing the National Anthem.

Well, not much notice, but somehow we organized for our teeny little scout troop to come and do a little ceremony. There aren't a lot of boy scouts in our ward, and Micah isn't even 12 yet, but we added him to the bunch.

At my work we have this HUGE American flag. It is so big that it had to be strung across many carts with 5 scouts holding it up as well.

They did a little ceremony to raise this huge flag and had Micah lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance. Micah did great leading the group!

But....
At first it took a while.

I think they missed a hook or something, but then once they fixed that they could slowly begin raising it upward.

Up up it went...

And up some more....

And more and more until it was all the way up.


As I said they had asked the kids to perform the National Anthem, but they only gave us about 3 days notice.

At first we were going to have Caleb play it on the piano while Micah and Jewelia sang, but then we found out the song was just a little too high for Micah to sing. So, then we were going to have Caleb play and Jewelia sing, but the arrangements we found were all just too high even for her.

So in the end, we found a karaoke track for her to sing.

Lovely picture this is below (don't look at frumpy me there---I was in work clothes and had gotten up too early!), but it shows Jewelia getting ready to sing.

She only just learned the tune of the Star Spangled Banner and didn't have time to completely memorize it, so we just let her sing with the words.

I know, not super fancy, but we still think she did a good job. I didn't get a complete video of her singing, but our neighbor caught her on her camera:



Maybe next time she can have it memorized. Jewelia loves to perform!