2012-2013 Drill Team Try-Outs

We always hang out during try-outs and watch the girls stretch, practice the dance and of course eat!

Here are a few of our AMAZING Drill Mamas!  LOVE these ladies!

Mikaela & her "party-animal" Mama!

Ana and her beautiful fam!

Morgue and her crazy Mama!

Love this pic.  These Girlzies stretching and eating and having way too much fun.

Beautiful Daryion!

Ok - so I watched these Ladies sneak around the corner.  Being the creeper mom that I am I FOLLOWED them!  This is proof of the quality young Ladies these stinking Juniors are.  I caught them in the act of PRAYING!  I love these Ladies with all my heart!  They are amazing!

And they're headed to their try-outs.  They try-out three at a time and they are numbered from shortest to tallest.  This year Karlee is the tallest then Morgue then Mikaela.  So.. these three tall Girlzies were in the last try-out group together.

Of course our Juniors made the team.  AND they made the offices they wanted.  With the new coach came a new way of doing things.  The Ladies had to try-out for an officer position.  BUT I think it worked great and the Ladies are thrilled with winning the positions they wanted.  Morgue = Head Captain. Mikaela = Co-Captain.  Karlee = President.  Ayana = Social Chair.  (I think that's the titles of the new positions...)  It's gonna be a great year!

Per tradition - the Seniors kidnap the girls who made the team and take them to a sleep-over.  They actually stay up all night then go to school the next morning.  This is a pic of Amanda & Ky attempting to awaken the slumbering Princess.  Not an easy task!

Seattle

Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market is one of my favorite places! We spent our last day here today with Jon, just walking around the market and then down onto the waterfront. What a gorgeous day... 75-ish degrees!

Jeff & the kids watching this little shop make donuts!

You might wonder what's on this wall...

It's gum!! It's the famous Gum Wall. Garet added his piece of gum too! Rumor has it they used to clean the gum off, but eventually gave up... I couldn't get my family to pose in front of the wall. I think they were worried that some disease might jump onto their backs when they weren't looking.

The Famous Brass Pig is actually a ginormous piggy bank. The city collects about $10,000 each year that they use to help maintain the market.

My street rats taking a breather. Because you know how hard vacations are...

In the downstairs of Pike Place Market

And... you get a choromosomal lesson in the bathrooms... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...

Kids just chillin' on the Pier

Karlee & I heading up the stairs from the waterfront back to Pike Place Market.

This one-"person"-band menagerie was rather interesting. And I say "person" because from the back - which is the side I saw first - I really thought I was looking at a girl... but upon further inspection I noticed that that was not the case... On the streets of Seattle you never know what you'll see.

The Space Needle

What a perfect day to go up the Space Needle! The views were amazing! Love this city!

Ok. Yes. We're posing with Garet's "Strength For Youth" booklet. It was a Seminary challenge. Which, actually turned out quite well. Usually I take tonz of pix during our vacations, but rarely I end up taking pix of our family together. Kinda fun seeing us together this trip! Thanks Morgan Seminary Teachers!

The skies were so clear! It's quite unusual to see Mount Raineer this clearly.

The Seattle Temple. After playing down town today, we ended our day with a visit to the temple grounds.

Boeing Tour; Whidbey Island; Deception Pass; Jon & Josh

We started today out by going to the Boeing plant tour - Future of Flight. It was SO awesome. We got to go inside this humongous building (each blue door is LARGER than a football field). Housed inside is where they assemble 747s as well as Boeing's new plane, the 787. So amazing!

This plane has been specially built to fly in ginormous airplane parts.

We were lucky enough to see this plane's maiden flight. It was just taking off when we started the tour, and just landing at the end of the tour - about 2 hours later

Next, we took the ferry to beautiful Whidbey Island.

The day was crystal clear & quite warm, but that darn breeze was a wee-bit chilly!

Deception Pass

Dinner in Everett with Jon & Josh was nummy. I LOVE Mexican food!!