State Solo and Ensemble

So as you must know...Or you don't? State Solo and Ensemble was awhile ago--on Mace's birthday! It was a fun trip, I loved near every minute!!

The way up... Sara and I being a little crazy:

(Played with our faces?)




(Wax ON, Wax OFF! haha)


(I don’t know why we decided to pose with fishy's so much...but yeah-long, tired, crazy bus trip, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! :D)





(Then Matt joined-our fishy cracker pics expanded...)




(Then Blaine got in on it too...)


THEN... Kelsie AND Courtney joined! Although this time we had teddy grams.


Again...Don't ask me why we did this :)

Later when got to the hotel, we were amazed. Or I was. It was a NICE hotel. My roomies where Courtney, Sara, and Kelsie. We decided that since the place had a kitchenette we would make smores. It was pretty fun! Then...there were pictures on the wall and i commented on how much i liked them! And wondered if they were bolted to the wall randomly. I went over just to look...And i think we all got carried away with posing for pictures! haha

As you might be able to tell-they weren’t bolted...









SATURDAY...

So you may have noticed that it's taken me awhile to post this...Maybe that’s because I'm lazy-maybe that's because I'm not all that happy with the results. I was very nervous all day for the event... I was WAY excited to have Katie and Tyler come hear me, made me feel pretty loved. I was sad that other family up there couldn’t come-but I understood! :) I had many friends come and listen to me that where there, and that was great!!

The actual performance was one of my best. I thought i did extremely well-although i knew i had many follies. My judge was a college professor from UVU. Eh..The outcome was a 2+ Which is basically a B+. If you know me...you know that I'm not much of a B+ girl... I had people come and tell me afterwards that they thought I did better than that, and I think that that’s what i want to take from this. That it was a GREAT experience, and I like what she had to say on the judging sheet, but it’s not all about the actual grade...Keep telling myself that?

I don’t know what I'm actually talking about anymore... O_o

Xpress got a 2+ as well-and the judge who gave them that was the husband of my judge. I think they just might have had something against us Kanab people ;)


The bus ride home was okay. My favorite part was probably when my friends Patrick, Ben, and Matt braided my hair. I'm so glad my mom got some documented pictures of it! haha





LOVE Ben's face here. :D


Finished product (looks kinda like a braid-right?):




All in all a great trip. I had a few moments of some pretty sad things...But it was still great!