Marching Band is Over!

Now please remember that I love marching band. But IT"S OVER!!!! after 6 months it's finally over. "I'm so Happy!" It was a great season. But we did have our problems. The same thing happened at Red Rocks (State Championships) that has been happening all season. I was 1 point. ONE! from the team that took home the caption.

Here is a break down of what happened to the guard all season.

Nebo-Won! (woohooo!)
BYU-Lost to westlake by 1 point
Davis-Lost to Westlake by 1 point
Mt. Timpanogos-Lost to springville by 1 point....beat westlake by 2
Red Rocks-Lost to Granstville by 1 point.

I would have to say that my problem was numbers, not talent. But I never saw grantsville's or Springvilles shows so I have no idea how good they are. The coolest thing about the Red Rocks competition is that we were the first to perform at the competition. Grantsville was the last. My team was in first place for 2 hours until grantsville performed. I'm pretty proud of that. I wanted to take the girls out for ice cream to tell them how proud of them I am but only 2 wanted to go. That's fine with me...less money to spend.

This is the only picture I have of the whole team. It's with Orem. Since the two teams are joining for winter guard we figured we should get a picture together. Sad, that I forgot to get one of just us.

My girls are in the red and purple costumes..
Rebekah is on the far left, then Deanna, Kristen and Katie. Katie is my captain and the one who does the solo in the ballad.

I have video of the two performances from this weekend but I can't upload to youtube. I'm not sure why. When I get them up I'll post them.

Saturday was the BOA (Band of America) Competition. There was no way were going to place or do anything important. It's mainly to go and see some amazing bands from other parts of the country and to have the experience. It was an awesome competition.

I have to tell this story. I hope you can follow it.

I really wanted to see this team from El Paso. One they are from El Paso and michelle is there and two Michelle says they are amazing. The competition started at 10. J.M. Hanks (from El Paso) was performing at 10:30. We got there at about 10:05. But we parked in the wrong parking lot and were told to move to another lot a quarter of a mile away. I knew that I would have missed them if we had done that. So I begged if we could get off the bus now. With some convincing on Jared's (the Directors) part the host volunteer let us off. I was the first off the bus and just started walking. Didn't wait. by this time it was 10:15 and we needed to walk around the field to the other side. following me so far? I get there at about 10:23. Fnd a wonderful spot to sit just in time to hear the announcer say..."J.M. Hanks was having bus issues on there way here today and will not be performing at 10:30. Instead we will take a break now and J.M. Hanks will perform at 11:45."

Yeah that's right I made the band hussel for no reason. So now I was thinking maybe they are not that good and I did this all for nothing. But then after they performed I stood up. Turned to the band and said. Aren't you glad we didn't miss this Band? They were amazing. The kids talked about them for the rest of the day. I was happy that I was not disappointed and didn't make a fool of my self.

Here is a video of there show. Just to prove they are good.

This show seems a little different than the BOA one. They had a lot more visuals and then they had voice overs during parts of the show. I wish I had the BOA one. It was amazing.