Band Sista!!!!!

Well here we are at the beginnings of marching band season. We are freshman parents so this is the first year of the next four years!!!!

Friday night was the homecoming game so the band played for just a little bit then had to start packing up for the big competition on Saturday. It takes such a long time to pack up 3 Ryder moving trucks full of band equipment so we just stayed and watched the rest of the football game. Hope is in her element as she is walking up and down the bleachers, helping to pick up trash that gets left behind and helping take bleacher covers off of the band seats.

Saturday was no different! We had to be at school at 8:45 Saturday morning. So Hope had her backpack ready for the day. We had enough snacks to choke a bird...which the color guard found very funny when I said that! Well Hope and Stephen became the official water kids for the band. Hope thought it was fun to sit on the cooler and when one of the band members needed a water bottle, Hope would hand them one. She took that on as her job for the day! At dinner time she and Stephen gave each student a water bottle. It was fun to watch. Some she would hand to personally, others she would hand to Fred for him to hand it to them. After the band competed in competition, she took back over her position at the water cooler! She and Stephen were such big helpers!!!! They made the day a little easier!!!!

After the band competed, she looked at me and said MOM....I'm ready to go home. I told her that we had to wait for the awards! She was such a good girl all day and it was a very LONG day! We didn't leave the competition until around 10:30 pm. It did hurt just a bit when I had to leave to get on the bus with the color guard and she looked at me and said...MAMA I want to go with you!!!! I told her she couldn't. That only took her a few minutes then she was happy to be walking around back to the car with Fred!!!

I am so proud of all of my children! They are truly amazing gifts from God to our family!!!!!