Mini Drill Team Camp

 

Over the past three days, Allyson has been participating in the Mini Drill Team camp.  She has had so much fun learning a dance in preparation for Friday nights home football game.  I gave both her and Lottie the option to do the camp, and only Allyson was the only one that took me up on my offer.  Of course, Lottie's response was, "I hate dance!", so needless to say I didn't have to worry about signing her up for it this year!

 

After Friday's practice on the football field, Shae King came to our house to play.  Her and Allyson are quite the cute little set of friends, so to both being doing drill team camp was pretty fun.  I got home from work and when I walked in the house, they had been in and got their make up ready for the night.  I was a little concerned with their look, so I convinced them that if they wash their face I would paint a design on their cheeks!  They were all for that and we had so much fun painting paw prints and Go Bulldogs on each of their cheeks.

 

So once their faces were painted, ribbons tied on shirts and in hair, these girls were ready to go!  Note that even though Lottie doesn't like to dance, she was all girl when it came to be dolled up, and doesn't she look cute!

 

 

* GVHS G-Getts and Mini G-Gettes *

Gratia Mellor, Shae King, Linsi Hansen, Allyson, Autumn Anderson, Esmae Minor

 

*  Half Time Performance *

 

 

G-Gettes Team Pictures

 

A while back, the Gunnison Valley G-Gettes were able to go and get team pictures. We finally got a copy of them and thought it would be fun to share these for McKenna.  It makes me sad to look at these; here is a beautiful dancer who experienced an injury and left her unable able to complete the year of dancing like she had dreamed about.  At least she was able to gain some great friendships through this experience and learned a lot of life lessons over the past several months. 

 

Thriller

 

I had the opportunity to take a group of these drill team girls to the performance of Thriller in Provo tonight.  This was so much fun, not only was the show great, but watching these girls out in the foyer was priceless.  There were zombies out in the foyer, walking around and simply breaking up this group of girls.  The girls were all just laughing and trying to get away as quick as they could. 

I am so glad I had this opportunity to be with McKenna and so many of her friends tonight.  Our seats were great and the show was awesome.   What a fun way to get in the Halloween spirit!

G-Gette Mini Drill Team Camp

Wednesday after school started the G-Gette's Mini Drill Team Camp.  Allyson and Lottie were pretty excited about going to this camp this year, especially because McKenna was going to be there.  However, once I got to the school to drop them off, both girls were a little hesitant and weren't sure is they wanted to do it and were worried they wouldn't have fun.    I did get them convinced, but even Lottie asked me while we were waiting in the line to pay, "Mom, what I do if I get in there and change my mind?".  I told her she would like and that lucky for her, McKenna was one of the teachers for her age group, so I knew she would be fine.

 

 

But just like everything else these girls do, they loved every minute of it.  They had so much fun and couldn't wait to come home and show us their new moves that they learned; and they were both excited to go the Thursday's practice.  Thursday's practice was in the gym and then on Friday, it moved out to the football field.  Here the girls did an actual run through of what they would be doing during half time that night.  It was so fun to watch all the little girls admire all of the Drill Team girls.  What a fun experience!

Friday night came and these girls were so excited to perform at half time.  The girls were all given new shirts and they wore these to perform in.  Lottie was in the 3 to 5 age group and Allyson danced with the 6 to 8 year olds.  It was a pretty cute performance, it was where each age group danced they own dance and then all the girls at the end got together and performed the dance that they learned as a group.  It was so cute!

* McKenna *

* Tyra Lottie *

* Allyson *

Love this G-Gette and future G-Gette's of mine!