The Small Things

So today I will focus on the small or not so small things. For example, today was Megan and Christopher's four year anniversary, very big for them :). I cannot believe that it was four years ago that we had the wedding!! I still feel like they are Megan's "newly weds" (aka a year and under). But alas, that's hard for them to be since their son is almost a year old and they got married pre-MIT. Star testing is coming up tomorrow, which in my mind means only one thing: nap time!! Three hours to do something that takes me maximum one hour to do? I'll take that any day :). Also, I have a new section in drumline, the cymbal section! I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty excited about it and I think that our drumline will smash the competition next year and we will do even better than this year! :D
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HORRRAY!

So just a small insert for my recent exciting moment that I had on Saturday (hence the title). My drumline WON the Open Class (2nd hardest) division championships!!!!! Its very very exciting and an excellent way to win a season! :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1163216&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=711292124&id=1390154318 this is the URL for our winning picture for after we won, completed with medals and uniforms :) (I couldn't get the picture onto this so yeah, that's for if anyone wants to see it). That's pretty much the only exciting news for now, and I shall write again soon!!


PS
Lauren feel better!!! Hope that concussion is no match for you :)

Long time, no see

OK so to my defense, me not writing since January is NOT MY FAULT.....I have been a very busy girl. First off, a major, major reason why I have not written is FOREVER is because of drumline. Drumline, it seems, has taken over my life (as many can agree due to my constantly sleep deprived face and one of my most common answers is: "can't, drumline"). But alas! Tomorrow is my last competition for drumline winter season '10. Tomorrow is championships! Another reason for my lack of writing before my homework made 5 hours of sleep a luxury, was soccer. There was a lot of soccer in that mix, so it made any pre- February ski trip impossible. So, as you see, it has been quite hard to write on my blog! But to recap..

Lets see, the ski trip was fun (as usual) and our soccer team had a great end of the season, we ended really strong and no one wanted soccer season to end. Then drumline season started. Lets just say that this year's drumline's skill level is a LOT higher than last year's drumline. We've had a pretty good season, with only one bad show, which is good. This Saturday is our championships for ADLA, and our last show of the season. Needless to say, everyone is very, very excited about that part. The last thing really of consequence for me to talk about was my New Orleans trip over spring break. I went to New Orleans with my band and it was extremely fun. I had a spiritual experience at one point that really helped me mixed in with some hard core French doughnuts, extreme late night exercising at the hotel, some flee market action, a cruise and some good old fashion bonding. All in all it was an amazing experience and I couldn't have spent my spring break any other way! Everyone had loads f fun, and no one wanted to leave, our whole group bonding with the most random people (Ex. a guy we saw dancing our first day, and now everyone is friends with him on facebook). Life has been pretty sweet all in all :)

Besides this, not much has happened to me besides the recent resurrection of my "middle-child" sister, Allie. She has finally come home, carrying with her a wake of cravings and a flurry of paper with the purpose of sending her off to her mission, now that they have extended the time to send in a person's mission papers for four months instead of three before that person's birthday. And Allie just had her four-months-until-her-birthday day, so she was running at the speed of sound to get them in, creating excitement every time a phone rang, saying loudly, "IS IT THE BISHOP?!" But alas, they are in now and she is just enjoying her stay here (we are TREMENDOUSLY enjoying it, she is a breath of fresh air).

I cannot believe that I have written this much already! I came into this thinking that there would be nothing to say, but I suppose I was wrong, which isn't a bad thing. Well time for me is a precious commodity and so I must be off! Much homework is to be done before Monday...

Another day without school...

So with Martian Luther King Jr. day rolling around the corner tomorrow, I find myself yet again with no school and time to write, which is fortunate for that seems to be practically the only time i have to write these days. Life has been pretty routine for the past couple weeks: soccer, school, drumline, homework, and squeezing in sleep. Although recently there has been a temporary swell in our normally quite modest number of house dwellers in California, when my sister Allie came back for the weekend and behind paraded a rambunctious group of college students that number 8 (including her), but at times can make more noise than a small army. But I suppose that's what happens when a bunch of friends go to a persons house to crash for a couple of days, major bonding occurs. I suppose bonding is somehow indirectly correlated to noise? Because it seems like a lot of my bonding experiences were also loud and/or destructive. There is not much to report after this except for the fact that first semester is coming to an alarming close next week, it feels like just yesterday I was fresh from Utah sporting my neon yellow and green cast (is it possible to miss a cast?) and bravely learning my band show with one arm. Now all of the sudden I'm in the middle of a soccer season, beginning(ish) of a drumline season, and concert season is in full bloom, with our next concert coming up in a couple weeks. Until next time (goodness knows when THAT will be...)

Caroline