It's Official... I'm a BAND GEEK!!!

Hey again friends! Tonight was my LAST band concert ever... I'll admit, as I was getting dressed up in my spiffidelic uniform, there was a tear or two shed.

I was way stressed before the concert because I had to organize the Senior Gift to Mr. Robertson (a quilt was made by a mom that had 9 or 12 past pep band t-shirts on it... i needed 35 students to sign it without Ert seeing.)

At the concert, awards and scholarships are given, then I (as the band president) give the gift to Ert. I won one of the Redmond Mustang Band Booster Scholarships (add this to the Greater Seattle BYU Alumni one, and I've almost got one semester of tuition covered!!!!!!)! Tyler and I won "Students of the Year" which was awesome. Rather than talk about the girl, bring her up, and then talk about the guy and bring him up, Mr. Robertson talked about us as if we were one, then had us come up together to get our little plaques! Then, Mr. Robertson called each senior up one at a time, gave us a carnation and talked about us for like 15 seconds each. After this point, I gave him our gift. I first spoke about memories, lessons we learned, a lesson we didn't learn (DON'T TALK WHILE WE TUNE) and apologized for our behavior, and told him that as a thank you for putting up with us, we wanted to send him and a guest to Jazz Alley for dinner and a show. Because the certificate had not yet come, I told him we had something else... and had Tyler come hold the quilt up to show him. Ert was so excited! I mentioned the following: "To some, it's not over til the fat lady sings. For us, Band isn't over til the trumpets play pep band"

We then played our last song, WICKED! After that, we started playing a pep band song... he laughd, and part way through, from the audience, the sophomores and juniors joined it. We played Everybody's Everything, the song we played for marching band last year. It was amazing, I almost cried.

Dad took some pics of Tyler and me, and then Tyler, Ert, and me... It was fantastic! THEN... we followed the most important band tradition, we went to DAIRY QUEEN! Now I'm sitting here eating my blizzard blogging about my last band concert.

I'm sad... I don't want band to be over! Luckily we have our trip this weekend... YAY BAND!

That my friends, is why I am a HARDCORE BAND GEEK!