Masquerade!!!

This Saturday I was able to go to my friend, Natalie's, sweet 16 party (November 5th). She threw a "Phantom of the Opera" Masquerade Ball! The invitations were awesome. If you haven't seen the movie, you might not get it.

This is the envelope:


And here's the invitation:

It was so fun to put together my costume and the whole idea was just awesome. My costume consisted of Rachel's prom dress (thanks Rach!), a mask we found at the hospital gift shop (who knew!), gloves from my Cinderella costume (they still fit!), a fan Terrah gave me (I still use it!), some earrings I got from Kelly, and my really cute shoes!



Mom did my hair. We were going to try to do a bun style, but it didn't end up working, and I think the way we did it was cuter anyway! :)


At the party, they did a pretty awesome decorating job. There were black plastic roses everywhere and candles everywhere. In the middle of the room they had hung a chandelier with real candles in it, and they had a fog machine at the beginning. The fog was that thick, sweet smelling stuff, so they didn't leave it on the whole time. There were red, white, and black balloons all over the floor, and the same colors of steamers on the walls.They had a "professional" DJ (he wasn't very good), and that was fun. Surprisingly they played a lot of pop music, and only like three or four "Phantom" songs! That was kind of sad, but it was still really fun.

Natalie's parents had a nice red chair with some black roses up on the stage for pictures. Everyone got an individual picture, and then we did any individual pictures we wanted. I did one with Kelly, and Kate and I did one because we were the only ones with fans. All of the guys did one too. It was pretty sweet. They all glared at the camera. It was fun.

In the realm of games, we did a mask contest and musical chairs. Zoe and Lighty won the mask contest. Lighty's covered her mouth and half of her face and was really cool, and Zoe's was white with red lace around the edges, and she made it! Not everyone did musical chairs. There were way too many people for everyone to do it. We popped the red and white balloons, and there were pieces of paper inside them. If there was a number or a letter on it, you played. It was pretty creative, but I had nothing to pop my balloon with. I tried biting it, but that didn't work. Finally Mitchell got a toothpick from one of the sandwiches and poked it for me. I didn't win, but it was more fun to watch anyway. :)

On one occasion of "Phantom" music, they did a "Phantom Dance". All of the guys (who were all dressed as Phantoms) danced with Natalie. It was really fun to watch. After she did presents she gave all the guys who danced with her Martinellis in these really cool champagne glasses.

Natalie's cake was awesome. They had done the frosting to look like a suit with a bow tie, and there were several roses on it. Like in "Phantom", on one of the roses her parents had a ring that was part of her birthday present from them. It was really cool. Not to mention it tasted pretty good too! :)

Half-way through the dance we found out that the guys were all hiding on the roof! Who came up with that! I thought the reason they weren't there was because of some phantomy stuff, but they were all hiding up there. Davis told us, and we went up to get them. Don't worry, it was a flat roof with a classroom opening onto it, and then a ladder leading up further. It was interesting. When we came back in Matt opened the door for us. The lights were off, and he had his white phantom mask on. It was pretty creepy! It scared me for a second! :)

I went in on a present with Kelly and Mitchell. Natalie is crazy about David Archuletta, so we got her a signed copy of the CD to his concert he did with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir last Christmas. She went nuts! It was awesome. I will admit it was my idea! :) After she came and gave me a hug. She had found out that it was my idea and she thanked me. I was glad that it was such a hit, and that no one else got her that! :)

One of the guys got her a rose with a black ribbon, like in the movie. He kept saying how bad he felt that he couldn't get her a better present, but I thought that was one of the coolest ones! I think my favorite thing she got though, was a jewelry thing. It looked kind of like a mini coat rack for necklaces, and it had a small mask on it. It was really cute!

The party was technically supposed to go until 10:00, but the DJ had to leave early, and it kind of just ended around 8:30. The saddest part was that people were still showing up! Timo got there just as we finished with the presents at about 8:15 ish. Kelly and I left at 9:00 ish, so I don't know who else showed up.

The funniest moment of the night though, had to be when Kelly's Dad came to pick us up. He thought we were at the school, but we were actually at the church across the street! He went over into the English Building parking lot, but when he came back he didn't see us and started driving the other direction! We started chasing him down the street, but we couldn't get his attention, and he didn't have his phone. He eventually came back and found us, but it was pretty funny! He felt so bad!

All in all, it was a way fun party! There were a ton of people there, and they went all out to make it really fun. I don't think my party will be that crazy and big, but who knows! :)

SRI

We took the SRI test (reading) last week in English. It gives you a lexile score that is 4 numbers. The first two are the grade, and I think the second two are the months into that grade. The test didn't take very long, and I got a 1506!!!! I was so excited! Books like the Scarlett Letter were on my suggested reading list!

I know that was pretty random for a post, but sometimes the small happy moments in life are what make it great!

Graduation 2011!

On Thursday, the 26th of May, I had the opportunity to play at my high school's graduation. As I was getting ready to go to the spectrum that night, I realized something rather important. I had left my violin at the school. We'd had a morning practice at the spectrum, and had then been bused back to the school. I had put my violin in my locker, and then forgotten it with yearbook signing. Luckily one of my Young Women leaders works for the school (she's a librarian). She got me into the school, and the orchestra room was miraculously unlocked.

I was supposed to be at the spectrum at 7:00. We pulled into the parking lot at 7:17. I ran into the entrance and had to run around groups of graduates. I almost got lost a few times, but I finally got my instrument out, and in my seat just after the orchestra was half way through our first song. But we played it again when the graduates actually came in, so I didn't miss much.

Our first song was the hardest. Mostly because I'd only played it like 3 times previously, but whatever. Then... blah, blah, blah, graduation-ness. Then, we played our song with the choir, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." There was a part where the guys sang an a cappella verse, and it was gorgeous. I actually heard that arrangement performed somewhere else, more professional, but I don't remember where now. :) Our last song was the graduation march, and I'll admit, it was really fun to play. It seems boring, and everyone knows it, but it feels special, and so celebratory, that it was great to play. I don't know if I'll actually want to play my senior year though. I kind of want the normal graduation experience. I guess I'll decide then. :)

After the graduation, I ended up gathering up all the music. Wheeler volunteered me for the job. Yay. So after that, we had to look for Kelton's folder, because he couldn't find his speech he'd given, and that was a mess, but we did find it somewhere. :) He was basically like our varsity bassist. He is really good, and he conducted us on one of our songs! It was pretty cool. I could see him doing that for a career for sure!

It was a really cool feeling to be involved in graduation, even though I was only a freshman. I felt that special coolness you feel whenever you do your thing, whatever it is. And running through the graduates was a little less embarrassing with my violin and concert attire. :) It was a great experience, and I look forward to the day when I will graduate. A full grown GRIZZLY!!!!!

Stop the Main Distraction

On Friday we had a huge assembly out on the football field. I knew it was about not texting while driving, or something, but beyond that, I didn't really know much. We went outside and got all sat down. There was some music playing over the speakers, and out on the football field right next to the track there was some stuff covered by a big white sheet like thing. We couldn't really tell what it was.

They uncovered two cars (one red and one gray) that had been crashed together head on. They were really beat up. The red car's front windshield was really cracked and falling in. There were two kids in each of the cars. There was another car (on the track) with its emergency flashers on. Then we heard a 911 call over the speakers about a crash at Logan High School.

Then (and throughout the whole thing) we could hear the police radios going back and forth through the speakers. Two police cars pulled onto the track, and went over to the crashed cars to see if everyone was okay, and what had happened. The passenger door on the red car was crushed shut, so one police officer got in the backseat to try to asses the damage better.

Then a firetruck and an ambulance pulled into the parking lot and onto the track. Two firemen ran over and pried the red car's passenger door open. It took a while, and the door was just trashed. They started pulling people out of the cars. Some people from the ambulance ran over with two hard plastic stretchers and a rolling stretcher.

The driver of the red car was a guy from my grade (Jaden Connor). His face had some blood on it, but he seemed okay. They walked him away a little ways and had him do the drunk driving test. He tried to walk straight, but he kept wobbling and fell over once. It had been a D.U.I. The officers handcuffed Jaden behind his back, and led him off to the side. They talked to him over by one of the police cars.

They pulled the driver of the gray car out and put him on one of the stretchers. His shirt was covered in "blood" and he was hyperventilating. He was going into shock by the look of it. They strapped him onto the stretcher and started hooking him up with I.V.'s and bandaging. His shirt got in the way, so they cut it off. It was covered in blood, and the paramedic just tossed it behind him. They rolled the other stretcher in front of him, so we couldn't see him for a bit. After a little while, they lifted him on to the rolling stretcher. His head was in a big helmet type thing. He'd suffered head trauma, and probably brain damage. He was still breathing heavily and shaking. They rolled him off to the ambulance right past Jaden.

Once the driver of the gray car had been moved, and taken care of, they pulled the passenger of the gray car out in a sheet and laid him out on the ground where his friend had been. He just laid there, unmoving. They covered him with another sheet. He was dead.

The girl who had been in the car with Jaden (Jane Anderson, also in my grade) was unconscious. The paramedics had her got her onto one of the stretchers too. She had been strapped in and had I.V.'s all over her. Her face looked pretty beat up. The paramedics brought the rolling stretcher back out (or maybe just another one) and put Jane on it. But they didn't roll her away right off. They stood there talking for a while, like they weren't sure what to do. Then we turned and saw a helicopter coming toward us. It circled around the field, and then landed right in the middle of it. They took Jane off the rolling stretcher, and over to the helicopter. They strapped her in, and the helicopter took off.

Once Jane was gone, the police officers walked Jaden past the scene, and loaded him into one of the police cars. They got in and drove off around the track.

They went over to the dead boy, and put him on the rolling stretcher. They rolled him away. All of the police, paramedics, and others out on the field dispersed.

After the helicopter came back, we had some speakers. The mayor, the police chief, the helicopter pilot, and our S.B.O. President, Cole Broadbent, all spoke to us about distracted driving, wearing your seat belt, and DUI. One of the officers who spoke told us that one part was left out. He said that the worst part is when an officer has to go tell the family of the person who died that their family member has passed.

After the speakers they let us go look at the cars and the helicopter. The cars looked even worse than I'd thought. The headlights of the red car were busted, and the door they'd had to pry open was way bashed up. There was about a foot between the inside side of the door, and the outside side. There was this big gap in the middle.

It was such a powerful, eye opening, awesome, horrifying, and morbidly fascinating experience all at once. These things are real, and this helped us to see that. The heat and the bit of sunburn I got was so worth watching this play out. I wouldn't have missed it.

After when we were looking at the cars, they were handing out stickers for the program that deals with this stuff:

Along the sides it says:
Taking your eyes off the road
Using your cell phone
Improper Lookout
Following too close

They also handed out No Texting & Driving Pledges. Here's mine:

And the Back:


This experience really made these things go past the movies. You see it happen then, but actually watching this process go on really makes a difference. You could tell that everyone knew what they were doing. The kids were acting, but all of the officers, life flighters, and paramedics were just doing their jobs. This all felt real, even though I knew it wasn't.

I love all of you guys. Be careful when you drive. I know that you already are, but I couldn't stand to lose one of you. I love you all soooo much. Drive safe!

Recap!

So, I need to fill y'all in. As of today I only have 15 more school days this year, and the days have been just flying by!

This Thursday night was my orchestra "Prison" Concert :) It's really called the Prism Concert, but they used to make us stay for the whole entire thing! It's a huge concert with all the orchestras, and last year, I'd say we were there until at least 11:30. This year they were nice and split it into two concerts. We were in the first one (thankfully!) and it was great. We played, "North Star to Freedom" a dedication to the slaves who ran away from their owners and followed the North Star to Freedom. :) We also played "Andante Festivo". It's a gorgeous, powerful piece. Our orchestra's last number was the first movement of the St. Paul Suite - "Jig". It's a very fun, fast pace, fiddle-esque tune. It's very fun to play.

We went to orchestra region last week and played the same pieces, except that we played the first movement of "The Organ Concerto" by Bach, instead of North Star. We got all -1's, which is actually pretty good. If you get ones you go to state. One of the coaches said he thought the St. Paul Suite was good enough to go to state on! Wheeler says that she thinks we'll get to state next year. Our Chamber Orchestra (the cream of the crop basically) did make it to state, and they deserved it. They played beautifully.

I'm almost done with End of Levels Testing. I've taken the English and Biology tests, and my Geometry test is on Monday. Yesterday I found out that I got a 54/56 on the Biology test! I was so excited because Biology is kind of difficult. Sadly, my math teacher has decided to actually count the test on our grade, which makes me very nervous, but I guess I'll just have to see how I do.

Lately I've been reading the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series, and they are so good! I'm on the third one, but the library keeps being closed for testing. It's bugging me like crazy! At the end of each book they have the first chapter of the next book, so I'm just going to have to read that and then wait. Hopefully they'll be open on Monday.

This past week in English we've been having a write-athon. On different days we would go to different places to work on different parts of writing. On Friday we went to the trophy cases and wrote about winning our dream trophy. Mine was the Olympic gold medal in figure skating. It was pretty cool. On Tuesday we went to the Auditorium. We had to put ourselves into a story in the theatre. It was fun. Since Thursday was Cinco De Mayo, Bates had us listen to this way annoying Spanish music, and describe the details of it that made us hate it, or love it. I had a lot of things to hate about it! :) I was gone on Wednesday on a field trip, but I guess they did something like, how your body is a symphony. Something like that. But by far my favorite day was Monday. He had us write a bunch of scary words on the board. Then he showed us an add for a creepy movie. Then he took us down to this basement in the old cheerleader room. It was so creepy! I was totally freaked out. It was so dark down there, and he only had 3 candles for us to write by, so my handwriting was barely readable. Every now and then the heater would kick on, and scare me really bad. He just had us write about what ever came to mind. I ended up coming up with the idea that the school had been taken over by terrorists, and they had us trapped down there. I got myself pretty creeped out, but it was AWESOME! Now that I look back on it anyway. :)

The weather has been so nice this week! There's some new baby ducklings in the canal by the school, and they are soooooo cute!

Well, I think that's about it. Sorry this post is so long! I didn't realize that I've had so much stuff going on. Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I've enjoyed living it!

"A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Rock and Roll!"

The Spring Show was a huge success! My group did an almost perfect performance opening night (Friday)! On Saturday we had a few shaky moments, and a few close calls, but no one fell either night! That is huge! When we get the video I'll see if I can load our performance. It was so fun, and everyone did such a good job!



This is me with my friend, Tyra. She's such a sweetie! You can kind of see my costume. We did our hair in curly ponytails, and on the bottom we had black sparkly pants. They were so cute!


I got so many flowers opening night! It was awesome! Thanks everybody! The purple ones on the left were from Dad and Charlene. The middle pink ones in the pot were from my friends Kelly and Hannah, and the ones on the right were from Mom, Jer, and Kim. Kim picked them out and arranged them for me! She's awesome like that!



Here's a closeup of Kim's flowers! I love them!

Thanks again to everyone who brought me flowers! You don't know how much it really means to me!!!

Green Day!!!

Happy St. Pats a month late! :) Well, even leprechauns make mistakes every now and then, right?
Speaking of which, I think I was as close as you can get to being a leprechaun. My outfit was by far my best and favorite St. Patties Day combo I have ever come up with.


I'm pretty sure I was the greenest person at Logan High! All day I kept saying, "I'm so green!!!" It was so fun to dress up all crazy! If you guys haven't gone all out on St. Pat's for a long time, or ever, I highly recommend it!

Happy St. Pat's to all! I hope yours was as fun as mine!

Missionary Week

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while. This week was missionary week, so I couldn't use the internet. I also couldn't watch any TV, listen to any music other than church music or use any media other than church media, among other things. It was soooo hard! I almost slipped up several times. In fact I was about to get on the computer to post something, but I remembered! :) It was a very hard thing to do, but it was kind of cool. Sometimes it made homework kind of hard to fit in! They said we could use the internet if it was for a school assignment, so it worked out okay. I haven't found out what we get if we did well yet, but it better be good! :)

Then the Young Women's broadcast was on Saturday, and it was amazing. President Eyering's talk was definitely my favorite. He got so emotional, and when he stood up, before he had even started talking, I could feel the Spirit so strongly. I love that feeling. I hope everyone else who heard the broadcast enjoyed it as much as I did. And now General Conference is coming up! Woot! I'm excited and look forward to the messages we will receive from our beloved prophets and apostles.

At Last!!!

I finally got my Honor Orchestra music this week!!! I am way excited. The first piece we're doing is............................................................ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!!! It's a big medley of a bunch of the songs. I think I may have played this arrangement before. After pirates we have "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" by George Frederic Handel from Solomon. And our last piece is "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius. I haven't practiced them yet, so I don't know what they sound like, but I am WAY excited!!! Honor Orchestra is a blast, and where so few of us from Logan High tried out, I think we'll kinda just bond together into this little pack when we go anywhere! :) I don't think I've told most of you this, but my friend Hannah quit orchestra half way through the year, and I'm going to miss her even more at Honor Orchestra! :( Sad day! Well, on the positive side, I've wanted to play Pirates in Honor Orchestra since I started doing it, so yay for whoever picked the music!!!

La Caille- The Quail

Tuesday was Mardis Gras!!! It was also the day that I went to a French restaurant in Salt Lake with other kids from my school. It was SOOOOOOO good!!!It's a five star restaurant, so we had to be very proper. I was so nervous that I was doing things wrong! :) We had a five course meal. I forgot my camera, or I would have taken pictures, but I will try to describe the deliciousness to you!

The first course is call an hors d'oeuvres, or appetizer. For this we had an escargot (snail). It was actually not as gross as it sounds! To eat it we had a tool that would clamp the shell so you could hold on to it. Then you used a tiny three pronged fork to pull the meat out of the shell. The texture was kind of weird, but it tasted like garlic. They drench it in garlic butter, so that's the only taste really. I was soooo nervous to actually eat it, but I ate the WHOLE thing!!! One of my friends actually saved her shell!

The second course was pineapple sorbet, which is basically sherbet, to cleanse the palate so everything else doesn't taste like the escargot. It was really good. There was a small ball of it about the size of a table soccer ball in a very short glass. We used a smallish spoon for this. When we were choosing which utensil we were supposed to use (there were 7 or 8 at the beginning of the meal) you go from the outside in, and the dessert spoon was laid vertically across the top right under the bread plate, which had its own special knife on it.

After the sorbet we had a salad. There were a lot of different kinds of lettuce in it, some more bitter than others. It had a special cheese on it that I had never tasted before, but I don't know the name of it. It was very strong, and had an interesting flavor. It also had a tomato and some onions on it, topped with ranch dressing. It was so good!

Next was our entree. We had a choice between a chicken dish, a salmon dish, or a vegetarian pasta dish. I ordered the chicken. It was really good. The chicken was so tender. It was a melt in your mouth type thing. You hardly had to chew it at all. It was in this creamy white sauce. It was kind of like alfredo sauce, but a softer creamier taste. There were also two baby red potatoes that had been roasted, I think, along with some tomatoes, and fresh cut green beans. It was really good, but I got full towards the end. I don't think I ate more than half of it.

At the end we had a desert called Bananas Foster. It's basically vanilla ice cream, bananas, caramel, and rum en flambet (on FIRE!!!!). Don't worry, I did not consume any alchohol. It all burned off. The way they served it was really cool. They brought out lipped cups with three cubes of ice cream in them. Then they put the caramel and bananas in a long flatish gravy pitcher type thing and poured a little rum on it, and set aflame. The coolest part though, was after that. They came over and litterally poured the whole flaming substance over your cup and in the cup, and on the plate the cup was on. It was so cool to watch! There would be caramel flowing from the container with fire down and around it. Then it would flame a bit after it hit, and then it would stop. I could feel the heat coming off the flames right in front of me. I was careful to make sure I scooted back a bit before the waitress did mine.

So what happened is, the fire burned off the alcohol, but left the taste. Just so you all know, rum is DEESCUSTING!!!! It was really bitter, like cough syrup, but worse. It was like, I put it in my mouth and it was instantly bitter and made my tongue tingle. It was gross! I did eat the ice cream though. The bananas and caramel had had rum poured on them directly, but the ice cream still tasted good. Kelly really liked it though, so lets hope she doesn't go alcoholic! :)

La Caille was also amazingly decorated. The grounds were gorgeous, and there were bunnies and peacocks walking around. The first thing I noticed when we came in, was a huge walrus head on the wall. Then there was this little hallway we waited in, before we were seated, next to the bathrooms. Along the hall of the bathrooms they had pictures of all their waiters and waitresses, that have ever worked there. The entry way to that hallway had mirrors on all sides of it, so as you walked through you could see yourself in five different mirrors. Then we walked up a spiral staircase to get to our table. Each floor had a different dining room, and we were on the second floor. It was so cool. One part of the ceiling was glass with a picture behind it. The downstairs hallway had a painting on the ceiling. I can't remember what those are called! :)

Each table had a flower in a vase and a candle for the center piece. Our candle was very entertaining. First, a big chunk of wax fell off, and then one of the girls at our table stuck it back to the candle. Then big chunks kept collecting on that side and the candle was tipped that way a little bit. by the end of the meal, our candle was only about 3/4 of an inch tall, when the table's next to us' candle was still the same height I remembered it being at the beginning of the meal! It was crazy!

La Caille was so fun!!! I was very glad I went, and the food was deliciouso!!! Of course, the bus rides were almost as fun as eating gourmet french food! :) And I didn't even have to miss school! We left right after school was over, and we got home at about nine thirty. If any of you get a chance to go there, I would highly recommend it!!!

Ice Skating

Today I signed up for the skating show happening this spring. I'm way, way excited!!! My lessons are getting harder though. I'm learning how to do a back spin, which is basically a spin backwards. I'm starting to get it, it will take practice though. I'll post pictures of my costume when I get it. Love you guys!!!

Dance

Yesterday was the multi-stake dance. It was the first one I've been to, because the first one was after the Grizzly-Back relay (XC), and the next one was while we were in Georgia. It was really fun. I danced with three guys, and it was really fun. Two of the guys in our ward hid in their car for almost the whole thing! Jake came in for about the last hour, but he just sat by the wall, and ran away whenever Dianne went over there. We didn't get done until 11, but this morning wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. :) It was fun though, and I'm really glad I went!!!

Elementary School Tours!!!

Good day all! Today, me and my whole orchestra went around Logan on a "tour" to all the elementary schools. We are trying to get kids excited about orchestra, and recruiting who we can. We're also going to be playing one piece with the fifth graders at every school, "Swashbucklin' Sailors". I've only played it once, and it was interesting. The fifth graders played it better than I did! :) No one was far ahead of me though. She only gave us the music two days ago. It was really fun though.
We played (other than Swashbucklin' Sailors) Mozart's "Eine Kliene Nachtmusik", "On the Trail" from the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofe', "Professor Wigstein's Amazing Melody Machine" by Richard Meyer, "North Star to Freedom" by Soon Hee Newbold , "Plink Plank Plunk" by Leroy Anderson, 'Hogwarts Hymn and The Quidditch World Cup-The Irish" from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Patrick Doyle, and "Gauntlet'' by Doug Spata.
Kyle dressed up as Harry Potter, and Timo dressed up as Professor Wigstein. During the part of the Harry Potter song when the Irish fiddle tune starts, Kyle started dancing and jumping around. The kids LOVED it! They were laughing so hard. It was way cute! Hunter played his guitar, and Aaron played his bass guitar on Gauntlet. It was pretty cool. On the first concert they were in the back of the stage, and no one could see or hear them, but at the rest of them, they were in the front, and the kiddos went nuts!!! It was way cute.
Hillcrest was our last school, so I didn't have to go back to the high school with everybody else. That was nice. Randi and her mom came to watch us because Randi's sister Charlie was one of the fifth graders playing with us. It was pretty fun. I wasn't happy about getting up this morning when I didn't have school, but it turned out to be a pretty good experience. Love you guys!!!
The rest of the day was just a lot of fun with friends, especially at lunch. The pizza got to the high school a half-hour late, but it worked out okay.

Hello!

Hi everyone! I opened up this blog today, and I hope it's helpful so you all know what's going on, even if I forget to tell you. For starters, I just passed my Free Skate Level 1 in ice skating, and I am way excited for the next level. That means I'm getting into really intense spins and jumps and stuff. It's gonna be fun!!! I'm also planning on doing the spring show again this year. The theme for the show is "Rock and Roll or Country". I don't know what song we're doing yet, or even what group I'm in, but I'll let you know. I also recently tried out for Honor Orchestra, and I got 3rd chair in first violins. For those of you who don't know, that means that I'll be on the outside edge, on the second stand from the front. I'm way excited!!! We haven't gotten our music yet, but I'm sure it will be great! I love you guys, and I'll try to keep you posted on stuff! Thanks!