HOMECOMING

This past weekend was my last homecoming ever. It was filled with multiple bittersweet moments, but it was by far the best one of all of my high school homecomings.

Game day began with the traditional Lariette high kick routine to Wild Wild West at the pep rally. I wasn't all that excited about performing because kick has never been my strongest style of dance, but as soon as I started kicking it hit me that this would be the last time to ever perform that dance. I forgot how fun it was to show our school how talented we are and I forgot the excitement that comes with hearing the audiences reactions to us falling into the splits. Although I was holding back some tears, I was proud of our last performance and our director actually said it was perfect. What? That is unheard of, but I will definitely take it.

After that we continued the school day which included everyone walking around in our giant mums. Other towns may think it's ridiculous, but I honestly love the tradition and this year I finally got to participate. Drew got me a beautiful mum and I loved getting to wear it around school.

To wrap up game day, the Lariettes participate in another tradition. Every homecoming game the Lariettes do a performance with their "Larrys" which can be a dad or brother or really just any guy. We have a few practices leading up to homecoming and the Larrys learn a halftime performance. Those practices never fail to be quite hilarious and performing with the Larrys is always a blast. The stadium loved it and I'm sad that was my last time.

Saturday was the day of the dance. Earlier in the week I was worried Drew wasn't going to be able to come at all because he had an opportunity to play baseball in New Braunfels, but he ended up turning it down!!! It was so much fun to get all dressed up in my pink dress and seeing Drew in his pink tie (he was very excited to wear). We had a great group filled with a bunch of my friends and I had a lot of fun hanging out with them. The actual dance wasn't all that great, but I was with great people and that's all that matters.

I'm so sad I have no more homecomings left, but I am so happy that the last one was the best. 

we were really excited that the homeoming queen was in our group