12 October 2008

Proud band mommy!

Today I'm taking just a moment to say congratulations to our awesome marching band! On Saturday, we took first place at a big marching band invitational. This was a competition featuring the best bands from around the Midwest, so it's a really big deal for us to win. Needless to say, our kids are very excited, and so are the band parents (most of whom are former band geeks themselves, now living vicariously through their kids)! :-)

Our show this year is music from The Lion King. It's a real crowd pleaser everywhere we play, even at Friday night football games.

The collage (click on it to bigify) includes a couple of shots from the band's performance plus our drumline, which is made up of a fun group of kids. Daughter plays snare and as section leader, she has done a great job this year keeping things on track. Spouse coaches the drumline, which means that at our house, we do marching band 24/7!

This first place finish was actually our second invitational win of the season. We have one more big competition weekend to go, then marching band will be over for another year.

We are so excited to have been part of the best season in our marching band's history!

10 comments:

Theresa said...

Congratulations. I know how much work goes into band and it's not just the kids, parents work just as hard!

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Lily said...

wow! Congrats. What an accomplishment

Krissynae said...

Congrats on win first place in the band compitions. I remember all the hard work put in leading up to that big date. Way to go..

Lorie said...

How exciting!! Congratulations!

toners said...

Yeah!! CONGRATS!! Awesome photos, too!

Sandra Collins said...

oh my you must be so proud - those shots are wonderful

Sarah Coggins said...

Great news! Congrats to the band and parents! :)

Linda said...

Congrats to your dd, that is wonderful!

Cheri said...

Wahoo! Congrats again!:)