Marching Band!

We had our very first marching band competition tonight and I'll admit I didn't think we'd do very well...but we got first place!!  We also won awards for best music, best general effect, best pit crew, and best color guard.  We were all a little high on life after that :)  Our show this year is called "Oasis" and is Arabian themed and it's awesome.  It has so much potential, unlike our show last year, and I LOVE the music especially.  It's hard work though...at the end of the day it's a lot of time spent and a lot of sore biceps.  But days like today make us think that it's worth it :) 

"Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

Our Day at Ole Miss (Saturday)

What an awesome day!  We got to Old Miss like 3 hours early and traffic was already backed up onto the freeway.  After finding a parking spot with only minor difficulty, we started to walk around and let me tell ya- these people take their tailgating seriously!  They set up tons of tents and barbeque and drink and tailgate all day.  Anyway, the game was of course the best part.  It. Was. Awesome.  Ole Miss was ahead 13-0 in the 4th quarter and we came back, scored 2 touchdowns and won!!!  I actually understand for the first time how people can be so emotionally involved in football.  And it was super exciting because the night before I got the autograph of the guy that pretty much won the game.  And my Dad let me paint his face half blue and half white, which was pretty great.  So we walked out of there feeling pretty good about ourselves.  And as incredibly devoted as the Ole Miss fans are and as much as I know they wanted to win, they were sosososo nice to us, complimenting us on the game and telling us that it was good to have us in their town.  Good ole southern hospitality, I guess :)

Musical, Yard Sales, Football

Well, I made it in the musical! Yay! After some auditions and call backs that were not in my comfort zone, I did what I wanted to do.  The musical is White Christmas, and I'm a background singer/dancer something...I'm not totally sure.  My title is a regency room patron and a train passenger.  Gotta start somewhere!
This morning we left for Mississippi for the BYU-Ole Miss game (in case you are wondering at all, we are BYU fans, NOT Ole Miss fans).  We stopped in the middle of red-neck Alabama to ask someone where we could get gas (we really couldn't find a gas station anywhere...good thing Mom wasn't there to freak out that the gas light had been on for miles) and of course they were having a yard sale! Jeans for $1...dress for $1...bag/purse for $1...I have a new-found love of yard sales.  Sadly we passed 2 others today but Dad didn't stop. 
Tomorrow is big football day, and really all I have to say is that we have got to win!  I am going to try hard to understand a football game well for the first time ever :) Let's go Cougars!! 
Olivia