Mini Cheer Camp

Last weekend on Sat., then on Thurs. this week was the BHS Mini Cheer Camp. They do it in the fall and again in the spring and since Savannah missed the one in the fall during football because we had to go to Utah to pick up her daddy from the airport, she totally was begging to do this one. We signed her up and found out that her little friend Avalan was doing it too, so they got to go together. Now me having been a cheerleader in Jr. High and High school, I was totally excited that she wanted to do this. I guess it has kinda always been a dream or fantasy or hope, call it what you want, that my little girls would want to be cheerleaders. I loved those memories from HS. They were some of the best times I had. It was also one of the hardest decisions I had to make at the time to quit cheering and do drill team to save my voice so I could have a voice to sing with the rest of my life. I loved dancing too with the drill team, so that continued the fun memories and is part of the dream for my girls. Anyway.....Sat. was the day that the kids got to learn the routines. They had to be at the HS @ 8:30 am and were there till noon. Savannah came home and said she had soo much fun. The perfomance was on Thurs. of this week during the girls varsity halftime. There was a ton of kids, not just girls-there were a few boys too. We had to have her at the HS by 6:30 but the game didn't start till 7:30, not sure why they had to be there so early-poor cheerleaders had to babysit all those kids that much longer. Savannah looked so cute in her mini cheer shirt, a green and white hairbow in her hair, a green paw print sticker on her cheek and her green and white poms. We dropped the girls off with the rest of the cheer campers and went to sit on the other side of the gym that would face for the halftime. I had brought the video camera and was using it to zoom to see if I could see what they were doing. I couldn't find her until a big cheerleader picked her up and started rubbing her back like she needed soothing. I thought something must be wrong from the look of things so I went over to investigate. When I got there I could see that she had been crying and was really upset, I thought maybe it was the band because they were right in front of the kids and super loud. Oddly enough, with her Ostler blood, she is often times upset by really loud noises. Come to find out I was wrong; it had been the Bobcat mascot that had scared her. He came over to visit the kids and say Hi, but it must have totally scared her because she was totally bawling. Red in the face, sobbing and everything. She said it was his mask/face that was scary. So I took her back to sit with me on the other side and we were going to watch for them to leave to get ready to go out on the floor then we would rejoin them. It took some persuasion to get her to go back, she kept saying she just wanted to go because of the Bobcat. She just kept watching for the Bobcat and anytime he would even come near she would squish into me and try to hide. Even after convincing that it was just a kid inside and it was only a costume she still was nervous. But with a little DQ bribery, we were able to get her to go back with the cheerleaders and come out to the floor and perform. My mom tried to record it on the video camera but she was behind too many kids to be seen. I only got a couple of still shots on my camera too, she was hard to see. It was cute though and she said she had fun, but she didn't want to do it again because of the Bobcat. We'll see next year how she feels. I'm proud of her though, she was scared and conquered a fear to do it anyway. I love you Nanna!

These first two pics are before the Bobcat came to say Hi.

Nanna and Av waiting to perform

Still waiting to perform

It's hard to see her, but she is the one in the black pants with her shirt tied to the side. She looked soo cute!