My friends.

So I have decided to do a post on my friends. These 5 people are some of the best friends I have...and for sure 5 of my best friends at youth group. Corinne, Darion, Levi, Micah and Drew and I...oh we have had some crazy times!! :) All of us, minus Levi, have been in the same car for a year. Me, Micah and Drew are always in the same car. We all know everything about each other and we are all there for each other no matter what. We talk, laugh, make up jokes, and have fun. We are like siblings, with Drew's mom being all of our "other mom". Micah, the one in red, recently moved. He moved to were I grew up actually. We all miss Micah. But, we will keep in touch and non of us will forget each other.

Discovery 2012, Seek.

So last weekend I went to Discovery. It is a youth retreat with just my youth group. This year's theme was Seek. Being a High school-er, I got to do one of the talks. I was so scared!! And it was in front of my friends to! MY friends said that I went from normal, to pale, to green to read right before my talk. I talked about Labels. I did fine!!! I had so much fun last weekend...I learned how to play ping-pong, went to the beach and got fried, hung out with friends, cried with friends... typical youth retreat

! This year my table was the Holy Hatters. There is a pic of my table and my youth group below. I LOVE MY YOUTH GROUP!!!!!!

Playing for 7,000 people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDr8CE3sLM&sns=em That is the link to my band playing at Jazz Fest.

Band, one of the coolest things I will ever do!

Wow! So, recently my band played for get this, 7,000 or more! We marched in while a famous saxophone player announced us. She said "Please welcome, the Navarre High school Marching Band!" And they all cheered! They loved us!! Hearing her announce us and knowing I was part of that is the coolest thing ever! It's kinda like on Friday night foot ball games, and they announce us.All the drama that happened 5 mins ago, all the never ending days of practicing, none of that matters anymore. Your out on that field, getting ready to play, and you know that you are one of the groups that is the face of the school. You know that everyone will love you, and all your hard work has paid off. Nothing matters once they announce you and you step onto that field. People are watching you, and seeing how the band is getting better, or when you march out on the field and they say "you may now enter the field for competition" the most awesome thing! I get goosebumps! And I'm technically not supposed to smile while at attention, but when they announce us, I can't help it! I grin because I know about all the behind the scenes work that we do, the hours of practice we put in, the amount of drama that happens between the kids and the teacher. Wow....I just spend a whole post rambling on about band. Sorry if I bored you!! :p

Whoa. A lot has gone on!!!

Wow. A ton has gone on since I last posted!! (I'm about to do one of my long posts, be prepared!)

Youth: At you things are going great. I wrote this, I don't even know what to call it, thing about Meltdown in the past couple of months that I told my small group leader, who told me to show my youth group leader who is going to put it in the church newsletter! Kinda cool! (And if you keep this a secret I will tell you) I am doing one of the talks for Discovery, a retreat in April that the High school kids do for the Middle School kids. I'm kinda nervous, but one of my friends suggested me and the team setting it up agrees that I would be the best person to do it....sooooooo. Yeah.

Church: Church is going good. Nothing really to say. My friends are good, crazy, but good!!

Band: In band we are getting ready to do a powder puff football game on Thursday. Then we will play for a Jazz Festival sometime in April. Other than those 2 things and our spring concert (no idea when that is) and our band banquet in May, we are focusing on recruiting middle school band kids this spring. We should have our show for next year getting set in the next couple of months.

Other: I went to see the Hunger Games at Midnight.....AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the Hunger Games!!! I love Peeta, Katniss, everything! It is so amazing! Weird and disturbing, but amazing.
We also moved into our new house. Now we are getting unpacked and stuff.

I will leave you with these final words from the Hunger Games:
May the odds be EVER in your Favor!!

Meltdown.

Meltdown 2012 was AWESOME!!!!!!! It was so good!!! The theme was AWAKE. They wanted to know if we were Awake in God. We had at least 4 people from my youth group accept Christ for the first time..that I saw. I can't wait to see what next year brings.

Time to Catch you up.

Ok, I am going to do a quick recap of my life. Marching Band is over, I am 2nd part 5th chair. We are currently working on concert band music.
Youth is good, Meltdown is coming up, so I can't wait for that!
Church is going good too.
I read the Hunger Games and it is AMAZING!! I can't wait for the movie to come out in March. My birthday is in less than a month!
And that's my quick recap!