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.

Update

I feel like I need to play catch up since i'ts been so long. But really people nothing is happening. I guess I should try and make things out of nothing. I'll try and be better at that.

Since I posted last we've had 2 more competitions.

The Davis Cup, in Kaysville and the Mt. Timpanogos Competitive in Orem at Mountain View High School hosted by American Fork. I find it fun that we go to a competition that has the schools name in it, is hosted my American Fork High School and is at Mountain View High School.

Here is a video of the show. Can I just say I love my iphone. I was able to record the show and by the time the photographer was finished taking a picture of the band, I had already loaded it onto youtube. I LOVE this phone.



We didn't place and we didn't take home any captions at either one. However at Davis the guard was again .2 away from Westlake. At Mt. Timpanogos Springville took home the caption. But let me paint a picture before I tell you the score difference. There are 11 Bands in our class. We were 4th to perform. The judge saw Springville two full hours after they saw us. We were about a point away from Springville with Grantsville in between. So we, as in the guard, took 3rd in the class. Westlake was about a point behind us. It's a really close race. And I only had 3 girls performing at the Mt. Timpanogos Competition.

It's been a pretty tough year. I don't want to point fingers but the drill writer wrote a bad show and the music guy wrote bad music. I'm blaming it on them it makes me feel better.

Like I keep telling you nothing interesting is happening. I really wish there was something to post about.

I've had to turn in a few assignments for the Photography class I'm taking. I've really liked 2 of them so I'll share them with you.

This was a my picture for our landscape assignment.

And this was for our DOF assignment


I love this one. It totally feels like something you could hang up in your house.

Horrible Horrible Horrible

I am so bad at this. Actually I'm really not.

Last week I had to flu. No, it was not the swine flu. The doctor is pretty positive that I did not have swine flu. Most of my symptoms were odd and didn't match what is normal to it. But, he is positive I had a case of the flu. No, not stomach bug flu for 2 days. I'm talking a week! Sunday to Sunday! And I'm still a little under the weather. I now have a mild case...which seems to be getting worse...of bronchitis. So you can imagine what I've been doing the last 2 weeks.

Nothing! absolutly nothing! I have been going to work this week. But have been keeping people away so that I don't give them Bronchitis. It's been wonderful.

I don't think I've told you this but Audrey is starting to be interested in potty training. It's not consistent but she is letting us know she needs to go potty and will go to the bathroom door. If we are not fast enough she'll go in her diaper. I'm learning that if she says she needs to go...she needs to go and you have to act fast! But, most of the time she really isn't interested in using the potty and just wants to watch her movie or play in her room. On average it's once a day. I don't think we have ever had her do it twice in a day and there are still those days that she doesn't even want to sit on the potty. All that matters is there is interest in the potty. I'm excited.

Other than marching band nothing interesting is happening. Tuesday was the BYU competition and the band took 3rd place and got the visual caption. Too bad the guard didn't get the caption. It was sad. Good for Westlake. It's their first year as a marching band and they take the guard caption. Really great! But I'm making changes....making it better...and harder. Hopefully it impresses the judges enough. I'm just nervous that I won't be taking home the caption again since I only have 4 and westlake has 12. It's hard to compete when they have 8 more people then you. But we'll make it. They'll do great. I was literally on their heals. They had a score of 26.83 and I had a 26.67. That's nothing. Hopefully we can bridge the small gap and that they don't jump too much ahead. But again good for them.

I think that's it.

Nebo Competiton

Saturday was the Nebo Marching Band Competiton in Payson, Utah. I won't bore you with all the details, because it can get pretty boring.

The band performed okay. I think they could have done a little better. But it was the first competition EVER for over half the band. We have a really young band. They just didn't know what to expect. I think we'll do better next time....now that they know the drill.

The guard did pretty good. I will always want them to be better no matter the award outcome. And it was not at all close to perfection, I hope they realize that. We have a long road in front of us.

We did have one major hic-cup during the performance. One of the girls, Rebecka, went to the wrong flag for the 3rd piece. Deanna, the wonder, had to go to a spot she has never marched. And did over half the third song in a spot she didn't know and performed it like she knew what she was doing. These are some of the things she had to deal with, when she travels to one set, lets call it 20 to another, set 21, she needs to NORMALLY travel to the right. On saturday her spot required her to go left. That's just one set. I'm talking like 10 sets she didn't know what she was doing. Poor thing was bawling after because she was so stressed about it. Some how Rebecka didn't have to change a thing. I'm really confused as to how that happened. But Deanna did it and learned a lot from it. Really you never know what is going to happen and need to be aware of everything around you. I hate that she had to learn it like this, but she'll be a better performer because of it.

I thought I wasn't going to bore you with the details. Sorry

After what felt like forever, awards started. It was a really odd awards ceremony so please try to follow along. In Marching band there are "caption" awards. 4 to be exact. Visual, Music, Percussion and Color Guard. I'm going to be honest about this....I really only care about 1 caption. So I can't tell you who got the other 3. Moving on.....

The guy over the PA system starts announcing the captions, first is Music and Timpanogos doesn't get it, I think Grantsville took that one home. Then next came Color Guard. Picture this...me holding my breath and crossing my fingers. It's ugly. But I do it every time. They call Viewmont! I'm a good loser...okay not such a good loser. I immediately take a look at viewmonts guard captain, who accepted the trophy, and silently judge her. I judge her actions, how she moves. I have to come up with a reason as to why they won, since I did not see their show. I am a really poor sport, in my head, Outside I am a gratuitous loser. I can be that right?

Once I finished inspecting my "enemy" I start thinking about things I have to do to change my show. I don't think I can write how many things were going though my head. It would be way too much. I didn't even listen to the next captions. So I have no idea who won. I started paying attention when they announced third place. Again I can't remember who took it home, but it wasn't Timpanogos. Anyway....right after they announce 3rd the PA guy says "we are having technical difficulties, we'll be right back." Now as you know I am really not paying close attention. I was a little curious about what was happening but decided to take the opportunity to keep thinking. Eventually the guy gets back on and says that there was some miscalculations and that some of the captions will be changing. That got my attention. He re announces Music, Grantsville keeps it. Then he moves on to the color guard, "This," he said, "is going to be changing." And that's right he announced that TIMPANOGOS takes that caption.

"I rock! I rock! I rock!"

I was the only person (other than Andi from Provo) to scream. Wrap your head around this....the stadium was silent. Every one was shocked that it was being taken away, and I scream, and do a jig. I scream so loud it echoed off the buildings. It was awesome.

I pretty much rock!

I do feel bad that Veiwmont thought they won and really didn't. I am aware of that. But lets not ruin the awesome moment.