Youth Conference 2010
Every year our Stake (multi-area church group) has one or two Youth Conferences for our kids ages 14-18. In the Spring, for the past several years, they have held a Carnival for kids with Special Needs as part of the Youth Conference. They had pony rides, a petting zoo, miniature golf, face painting, snow cones/popcorn, slides, jump houses, etc…and it is all free to the kids and their families. It was really an awesome event. The youth run all of the booths, plus they get to be a chaperone for the special needs kids that are visiting. I was only there for the first part of it before it really got going, but I got some good photos before I left 
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This is a bunch of our youth and a few leaders that attended the all-day youth conference (that ended with a dance). Some kids also showed up later on in the day after soccer games and such.
The youth being more casual...
Dane offering himself up as a target for bean bag practice.
Dane, Kadison, Melissa & Laura.
Getting candy ready for the Cake Walk...which was really a Candy Walk this year. That's Megan on the far right.
Lunch Time!
That's Brother Wells going the extra mile to help out with lunch preparations.
Adam and Kadison
Megan and Melissa
Kadison and Adam (again)
Laura and Brother Z (her dad :-) ).
Rachel, Rachel's friend, and Sariah...doing the lunch thing.
This is one of the kids trying out the bean bag toss.
This was a test run of the Candy Walk ;-).
The youth were doing the cake walk with a few of the early-arriving special needs kids.
The hat making table.
Princess Tyler :-)
Some of the outside activities...
...more outside activities...
There were a bunch of bunnies in the petting zoo this year...they were soooo cute!!
Rachel...the bunny lady...they all seemed to flock to her.
Sariah and a bunny...
One of the special needs kids getting a chance to meet the pony...
...and getting a ride too...
...this was a T-ball booth...
...they had a photo booth for the kids too...
...mini golf and bowling...
...crazy balloon booth...
...more bean bag throwing...our ward was in charge of the Candy Walk and the Bean Bag Throw.
Youth Conference 2010: Youth Waiting for the Conference to Start from Shayne Nolden on Vimeo.
Youth Conference 2010: Laura, Dane & Tyler from Shayne Nolden on Vimeo.
Youth Conference 2010: Special Needs Carnival from Shayne Nolden on Vimeo.