Large Group Performance

Getting ready to leave.

Waiting for our turn.  These kids are so loud and unruly!! Just like another band I remember...

Laurel and her boyfriend, Xavier.

Wishing I could go in to listen to them warm up.

That's my baby!

All packed up and going home, instruments and music in the back of the jeep.

The kids did great!  They got Superiors, both the site reading (Awesome!) and the performance.  For those of you who don't know, the site reading is a scary thing...they get six minutes to look over music that they have never seen before, then they have to play it, and are scored on the performance.  Superior is the highest score you can receive.  I don't have pictures of them playing, because you aren't supposed to have recording devises, or cameras.  I snuck and recorded the  music with my ipod. 

Large Group (Band)

I'm chaperoning Laurel's trip to the Large Group Performance today, for some reason I keep wanting to say "Big Band"  lol.
Last year I took Miah with me because at the time Jay's schedule absolutely did NOT lend itself to emergency kid pick ups...however this year he gets home just after her school lets out so he can skip PT to get her. 
I have to load the 7th and 8th grade's instruments into the back of my Jeep, drive an hour and then spend most of the day waiting.  Laurel's part is only going to be about three songs, but there is a lot of rigmarole involved.
Miah really made the entire day entertaining. She took pictures which I posted here, and she danced to music and recorded herself, and she cheered her big sister on like no one else can.  I'm going to miss that today. 
I've been trying to upload videos here for days, and it's still not cooperating, so there more than likely won't be videos posted later, but I will post any pictures I get.  Wish Boo luck, she's nervous as hell.  She's got this though.