...go away snow...

Ok...

After talking with Jenni we are not comfortable with you girlies driving in this weather. I am really sad about this in a big way, but we are canceling practice for tomorrow. YOU must be prepared for Tuesday's practice. I am begging that you PRACTICE and practice a lot to make up for tomorrow.

Here is the thing: we have to finish Dance this week. If we don't finish it this week we will have to do an early morning Saturday practice. I am sorry about that, but we need to be prepared in all areas and have dance complete.

Your safety is too important to us and that is why we are not comfortable with you driving...this is much worse than last week (I would have had you practice last Wednesday...haha just sayin') but it is supposed to snow all night so and we haven't seen this much snow in a LONG time. So please PROMISE me you will practice on your own and A LOT.

Text me letting me know you got this and also please read the post previous to this one that I wrote about this morning:) Text me telling me YOUR BIGGEST PROMISE IN THE WORLD THAT YOU WILL PRACTICE AND BE PREPARED FOR TUESDAY PRACTICE AND EVERY PRACTICE FROM HERE ON OUT!!

xoxo to the moon and back

...this team...

Hello Cutest Team EVER!!!

Some quick team items:

1. I hope you have practiced A LOT!! Please remember your sign off sheet and bring it signed on TUESDAY MORNING

2. Please bring your National Payment to me on TUESDAY

3. Please bring your Chili's fundraiser money on TUESDAY. I hope you have not lost those cards because those are worth money and if they are lost or not accounted for we will be paying for that out of our account...we cant afford that!!


TONS of stuff due on TUESDAY...don't FORGET IT PRETTY PLEASE!!!

Now...WELCOME BACK, I hope you are refreshed and ready to begin!!!!

THIS IS YOUR TIME!! It is time for competition to officially begin. Monday morning will mark the beginning of EVERYTHING we are working for! All of your sweat, blood, and tears is coming down to these moments...ARE YOU READY??? I can't believe that we are finally here...we were just standing in rain about to debut ourselves at the football game and now we are preparing for competition season!!

I know you can do this...you better know you can do this. It is going to be a tuff competition season everyone is working so hard!! Our practices will determine the difference between us and them!!

We HAVE to get dance done this week. So prepare yourself to be running everything and working on dance. Then we will have 2 week of fixing thins (i have small changes in each routine) and getting ourselves comfortable for the Jordan Competition.

Please work your very hardest...it will make it all very much worth it!! Love your guts, can't wait to start this competition journey with all of you!!

Please respond to me with the following answers:
1. What is the difference between us and our opponents?
2. How many Chili's tickets have you sold?
3. Can you believe we are competing in 15 practices??

xoxo-Meg

...gratitude...

Well my dears as you have probably heard your school shut down!!! All that you wished for right? Well, with that we cannot practice. You did so awesome this morning please don't lose what we have started!!

You tube will have Semi Final Kick-Which looks REALLY SO SO GOOD!! Military-I LOVE THAT MOMENT...that routine is HARD and you did such an amazing job, listen to your crows!! woot woot!! It is uploading as we speak so it should be up later this afternoon:)

You are all amazing...now with this 1 extra day of not practicing please add it to your list and PRACTICE PRACTIE...we want to show all of those school who The JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL SILVERLINE DRILL TEAM IS... xoxo

Also the Middle School Cheerleaders are taking donations to the CBH here is a list of items they need if you would like to contribute:)

https://www.thechristmasboxhouse.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=18&limitstart=1

HAPPY THANKSGIVING...please rest up and get ready to being competitions!!!

xoxo- let me know you got this.

Meg

...THE TIME HAS COME...

Like I said on yesterday's post. This is YOUR time. For the next 2.5 months you need to push it harder than you have ever pushed on Drill. All of our practice time is very valuable at this moment!!

I think it is great that we have 17 more practices until our first competition because there are 17 of you!! I thought that was pretty dang cool...so we must give our all. I know you don't have a football game you are working towards, but you have stuff that is much bigger than that!!! YOUR competitions. I really want you to focus on yourself and get things corrected the first time and also pay attention to all questions so we are not repeating ourselves lots of times. We have things that need to be worked on in EVERY single routine!! I love your guts and I know we will conquer all of this.

For tomorrow: We are going to be running EVERYTHING...it must look like we have it all cleaned. At 6:30 after we have run everything we are going to switch Middle School Cheer and go into the dance room to clean the beginning of Dance. PLEASE FOCUS on this part...lets clean it once and move on. That is why we are going to the mirrors:) My goal for tomorrow would be to get through the entire slow section and end right before the side leaps:) You can do this RIGHT???:)

For Wednesday with Jenni you will also running everything and go on in Dance as far as we can get:) Then you are off for Thanksgiving. Please fill out your practice sheets (given to you tomorrow) and please PRACTICE...we will have 15 practices left starting on Monday.

Jessi's surgery went well and she is recovering:) Please keep her in your prayers and shoot her a text of love:) xoxo

Now onto an important topic: Being Thankful!!!

I just want to express with all of you some of the MANY many things I am thankful for. I am guilty of not doing this more often. I am so incredibly thankful for Brandon...man that guy does so much for me and I absolutely adore everything about him (even his Drill Team routine critiques) he is so very helpful and even spends a Friday night at home gluing sequins on hats so I can go out and have some adult interaction with my friends....like I said he is pretty incredible!! I am so thankful for my Mother because simply put without her I would not be me. I am so grateful for the bound that I have with her and to put it out there she is my hero!!! I am thankful for my Grandmother...she keeps me sane and I love her sass. I am thankful for my cutest Auntie Tara so far in my life I am following in her footsteps and believe me they are very big footprints to follow in so I am thankful for all of her love and support. I am thankful for my friends and my family for believing in me. I am thankful for the U of U for making me be uncomfortable and allowing me the opportunity for growth.

I am thankful for:

• Brandon's Job
• Having a home
• Having food in our cupboards
• Having a safe environment to be in
• Having heat in our house
• Running Water
• Medicine
• Soap
• Daily Necessities that EVERYONE should have but they don't
• Education
• Freedom
• Spirituality
• Choices
• Mistakes
• Success
• Life
• Breath
• Love

And I am very thankful for YOU. I am so thankful that I get to be a part of your ever changing life. I am so grateful that I get to see you fall (and sometimes pretty hard) and then watch as you pick yourself up. I am so thankful that I am a part of your fall and that I can see you learn from it and become a better person. I am grateful that you wake up every single morning, work your fanny off, and go to school because it is that important to you! I am so thankful that I get to see you at your strongest and weakest moment for that makes you HUMAN:) I am so incredibly thankful that I see you teach yourself dedication and responsibility. I am thankful that I get to be a part of these fun moments in your life...first day of your High School life, walking off the field at a State Football game because you just nailed your routine to having you tell me that you got accepted to your first choice College. I am so thankful and proud to call you mine:) I am thankful for you giving me all of your heart, your tears, and your love. I am so thankful that I have such a connection with each of you that I would do ANYTHING for any of you....

I am truly excited to start this competition season with all of you. I need your PROMISE that you are ready to start the season out right:)

Please tell me:

1. Your PROMISE to the team

2. 1 thing you are thankful for

xoxo to the moon and back my little FIREWORKS

Meg

...still busy...

I just wanted to let you know once again how AMAZING you were Friday!! I am so PROUD of you...it just makes me very excited for this competition season to begin!! Which it begins in 17 practices!!! WOHOOO...Please make sure that you PRACTICE LOTS AND LOTS!!! Alrighty so here are some things I need you to do ASAP and throughout the week:) xoxo

1. Chelsea has not heard from the following:

Kaitlyn Frakes

Lauren Phelps(sent me fav action but didn't say if that was what she wanted printed)

Tatiana Tabish

Mick Mathis

Bree Blackwell

Shelbi Jackson

Carly Mehmen

Kelly Mehmen

I need you to let her know TONIGHT what you would like ordered. If you just want her to choose please let me know ASAP. Please go to the following http://cjcphotography.com/index2.php#/proofing/ the password is: silverline If you purchased a session fee it includes one of your individual images that will be printed as an 8x10 and 5x7(also an 8x10 of the team, but Meghan will be picking that one). So Chels needs to know what individual shot you would like. If you want to order more pictures please also let Chelsea know that. She sent a price list to your parents:) Her e-mail is chelsea.uniformity@gmail.com. Again, you must do this TONIGHT:)

2. Please make sure you are selling your Chili's tickets. This is money that is going towards YOUR Nationals. Let me know if you need more tickets...Those are due to me on November 30 (i know it says the 29 but I am not at that practice). ALSO you have a $350.00 payment due November 30 for Nationals.

3. No practice TOMORROW because you worked so very very hard. Please make sure that you run through all of your routines because we will be running EVERYTHING on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday and Wednesday will be focused on Dance. Pleas be present...like I said only 17 practices until your first competition:) I will be giving you a Practice sign off sheet on Tuesday for Thanksgiving Break. We can do this ladies!!

4. Also say a Prayer for cute Jessi. She will be undergoing surgery tomorrow morning! We love you Jess and know that you will be so safe and most importantly you will feel so much better!!

Alrighty ladies...we are are about to embark the biggest moments of this year. OUR competition season. This is the first time we are now focusing on us and our performances that are just OURS and ours alone. I need you to be present at all practices. Each routine still needs focus on some areas and we will be so successful.

Please respond to me with your commitment, heart, dedication, responsibility, and focus for this competition season by sending me a text saying THIS IS OUR TIME. This response lets me know your read this entire post and YOU are ready to focus and push yourself to make this year OURS:)

xoxo

Meg

...1 month...

Did you realize that in 1 month you will be at your first competition???? AHHHH....so EXCITING!!!

Ok we have some things to take care of really quickly

1. Wear WARM clothing to go out onto the field please

2. Wear your Jersey to school:)

3. You rock my world and I have made you a surprise on YOUTUBE so make sure you check it out. It is your good luck for tomorrow. All I will say is I know how much you have improved but HOLY RAT CRAP BATMAN you have REALLY improved and I am so incredibly over joyed with excitement on how far you have come and where you are going...I see bright things in your future!!!

xoxo-let me know what you think after you watch it

See you in the A.M. PLEASE PRACTICE ALL OF MILITARY ESPECIALLY FAST ARMS

Meg

...proud...

I am feeling so very proud of every single one of you!! My goodness I hope you all know what you have accomplished thus far. Think back to May...think back to camp?? REALLY?? You have really stepped it up and are becoming a team!! What an incredible thing that is.

Words cannot even express my love for this team and for all of you. I am so impressed at your constant work ethic and desire to do your best...please apply this to everything you do in life! This week you have been challenged and you are truly showing me what being successful means...waking up EVERY single day, sweating your guts out, having sore muscles you didn't know existed, you all have grown up a little in some way this week, and you are all coming together while doing this!! Continue to be constant support to one another, even if it is a simple hug:) You will CONQUER this goal this week...please practice tonight. I know you are starting to pass the cold around...give me 2 more great practices this week (and for the rest of your life) and you get a BREAK on Monday woohoo!!

Military is starting to look so amazing!! Know what you have accomplished this week and strive for Friday to be even better than it was the practice before...we work up to our personal best remember that!! These performances prepare us for the BIG performances...they are meant to grow and learn....not to get us flustered... got it?? xoxo

Here is some news for the night:

1. Practice for atleast 10 min tonight

2. Tomorrow we will be handing out Military costumes. So for Friday you need the following:

a. Black Long Unitard (you will get tomorrow)

b. Military Jacket (you will get tomorrow)

c. Silver Sequin hairpiece (you have already)

d. BLACK TIGHTS OR BLACK KNEE HIGHS (YOU HAVE TO WEAR THESE THIS YEAR, I WILL CHECK. IF YOU DON'T 5 LAPS)

d. Your OWN safety pins

e. Your OWN bobby pins

f. Warm-Ups (Jacket and Pants)

g. Warm Clothing (please have it be JD or SilverLine)

h. Make-Up

i. eye lashes, etc.

You will be wearing your hair in a SLICKED (I am SERIOUS ABOUT SLICKED I WANT IT TO LOOK WET) RIGHT side part (middle of eye brow three fingers in length) LOW bun ( you must have a HAIR net that is your hair color and not the LUNCH LADY hair nets please) that is off to the LEFT side. I am talking SLICKED LADIES...I want to be able to bounce a penny off of it is is so SLICKED.

Also I have to go to class so Felicia will be riding the bus with you. Please be awesome and wonderful like you always are and if you aren't going home on the bus you MUST go home with a parent:) Also after we perform Military I want you girlies to go and cheer with the student section and I will watch your ORGANIZED bags:) I know you keep hearing about people who are being checked out for breakfast, I am still waiting on reply about us doing the same:)

Love your guts...lets end this week strong and be UNSTOPPABLE!! Please answer the following:

1. How are you getting to the game and how are you getting back from the game on Friday??

2. Are you excited to do Military??

...POSSIBLE...

Hey Sweetest, Hard Working Girls!!

I sure think the world of you and I am so PROUD at how far you have come!! You are doing an amazing job...wohoo!!! There are some videos uploaded to YouTube please take like 15-20 min. and practice tonight. There are some things I want you to change on your own so we can just go over them tomorrow:)

1. In Military-my girls that are doing the transition across the floor. Jenni and I talked and thought this will be easier to get with the music (since it is fast). Normal squat 1,2 split 3,4,5,6, come up 7,8,1,2 (CHANGE FROM HERE ON) squat 3,4 shoot out 5,6,7,8 bow 1,2 squat down 3,4 and then start your walk with your left foot and hands fisted on your hips 5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4 keep your arm that is facing the audience on your hip and have your other hand shoot up in fist (super hero like) and NO MORE sashay:) shoot your super hero arm up 5,6,7, everything down 8. Do the box section just like normal:)

Tomorrow morning we are doing Military only. Please go over the kick section I would love to get through all of that and possibly more tomorrow!!! YOU CAN DO THIS...STAY POSITIVE!!!

YOU HAVE ALL GOT THIS...I know that your brains are mushy, but you are working so very hard so great job!!

2. Officers- Please practice so we are ready to go on tomorrow after school. Start at 3:00 go over all that you have so far...I will be there at 3:30 xoxo

Please let me know you are practicing for at least 10-20 min tonight:) TEXT ME!!!

xoxo-Meg

...BIG week...

Hello Cute Girls!!

This week is going to be very fun, hard, and your brains WILL be on overload (you get a break soon remember that, so don't stress yourself):) But I have every ounce of FAITH in ALL OF YOU that we will be successful. We will run things here and there, but focus this week will mostly be Military. My BIGGEST advice...PRACTICE Military on your own with music!! YOU CAN DO THIS!!

Monday- Run everything: Dance, Hip Hop, Kick...work the transition section of Military we started on Saturday from the used to be back roll on to the transition.

Tuesday- Clean Military

We will go forth the rest of the week depending on where we are...Please focus and come PREPARED:)

text me...by 9:00 p.m. WHAT WILL YOU DO TO PREPARE FOR THIS WEEK???

GO JD...HUGE GAME IT WILL BE SO MUCH FUN AND SENIORS A MOMENT YOU NEED TO REMEMBER:)

xoxo-Meg

...lets do this...

WELCOME TO COMPETITION SEASON...

this is the time of year where you feel like you:

• can't get out of bed you are so tired
• you want to cry at the drop of a hat
• your body wants to shut down
• YOU realize how strong you truly are
• YOU realize the potential that you have inside of you
• YOU realize all of the sweat, blood, and tears is truly WORTH IT
• YOU realize that you are a member of SilverLine the HARDEST working sport at JDCHS:)

I need you to text me with some important info please:)

1. Let me know if you are doing a solo? If you are...are you competing in December? Application is December 3

2. Chelsea has only heard form 4 people that have chosen their pictures:) You must let her know ASAP please. Once you have let her know your ind. picture and action shot she can get going on printing. ALSO all of the extra pictures or CD's that you may want:) You need to let her know by FRIDAY xoxo love ya http://cjcphotography.com/index2.php#/proofing/ password is silverline. E-mail Chels at chelsea.uniformity@gmail.com

3. Take care of yourself...I want you to know the potential that we have on this team to do MANY MANY great things. We must work together, practice our routines and be CONFIDENT in all that we do:) Our routines are harder than they have ever been before so that requires patience, dedication, and a lot of individual work. I want you guys to come to practice prepared every single day for the task at hand:) We want to clean and move on so we look amazing in 33 practices:) WOOOOHOOOO you are the greatest SilverLine...I love you to pieces. We have alot oto get accomplished...its a new month and a new goal to work forward to COMPETITION here we come!! It will be here in a blink of an eye

xoxo

RESPOND TO ME WITH YOUR ANSWERS PLEASE

Meg