Last week, the high school conducted the yearly Meet the Braves event. This event is the unofficial kickoff of the Fall season sports. We have three football and volleyball teams this school year: Freshmen, JV, and Varsity. Our cheer teams have two this year: JV and Varsity. The Cross Country team is ready; the first meet is in a few days.
Braves Football Teams
And guess what’s new? Our school was approved for Air Force JROTC. The district applied for this program two years and we’re so excited that we already have this in our school.
K is the flyer on the right.
Darling daughter was looking forward to this and she’s so excited to be in the program. At Meet the Braves, she was one of the Color Guards.
K holding the American Flag
Wishing all these athletes and Brave Nation to have a happy and fantastic school year full of great achievements and precious memories.
They haven’t seen each other for almost two years.
Last weekend my darling daughter was invited to a birthday party and it’s a Quinceanera. It’s a coming of age celebration of girls in Hispanic tradition when they reach the age of 15. It was a very lively event started at 2:00 P.M. until midnight that day. There was a ceremony which is typically a Catholic worship service honoring the birthday celebrant. Oh, how beautiful P looked in her lovely quinceanera ball gown.
Okay, let me try to breakdown the flow of events at the party.
Worship service as part of the ceremony.
Ceremony – This is when the family and the guests gather in front of the stage where a priest presides the worship service. It’s like an hour long service.
Ceremonial.
Cocktail – After the ceremony, the bar was open. It’s cocktail time-which I enjoy very much. I bet the grown ups liked it too. Haha! There was like a Mariachi band playing lively music the moment we went outside for the horse show. It’s a socializing moment for the guests and during this time, there was a horse show. Two to three horses preformed like a little tap dance in front of everyone and mainly to the birthday girl. After the horse show, the birthday girl got on one of the horses and went on a horse ride for a bit. She sure loves horses!
Horse ride.
Dinner – The dinner started exactly on time. It was catered so we were served Mexican food that evening. It was good!
Presentation – After dinner, the celebrant was presented together with her parents and close relatives. The band played lively Mexican music and the whole family danced for a while in front of everyone. Gift-giving, special presentation from the parents, and picture-taking with the birthday girl were the highlights on this moment.
Daddy and daughter dance.
Dance – Then came the dance presentation of the birthday celebrant with her court consisting of her her close friends and, maybe, cousins. She only have one sibling as of the moment and he’s still an infant. 🙂
Presentation of the celebrant.
After the dance presentation, there came disco time. Dance for everybody. It was never quiet. The DJ and the Mexican band made sure the guests were entertained. 🙂 There was a snack bar and dessert bar set up for everyone, too.
Mexican band playing for hours at party.
K did not want to stay until midnight so we said our goodbyes and birthday wishes to the celebrant and her parents at around 9:30 P.M. It was a wonderful fairy tale like celebration. The birthday girl looked very beautiful…like a princess. We had a great time.
P.S.
On our way to the party venue, K asked if there’s also something like that Quinceanera in The Philippines, the coming of age celebration. I said there is what we call a “debut”. It is when a girl turns 18 years old. She asked again if she can have one. I was like, “yea if you want to”. She said, “yay!”
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Yes, you read it right. We have a high school student now in our house. How time flies swiftly these days. Our darling daughter is now a 9th Grader. I can’t believe it. Grade school and middle school days are over. Now it’s time to enter the new phase of school-high school.
K told us she wasn’t ready to be in high school. She misses her middle school teachers. And some of her middle school friends moved to another city. In fact, she was invited to a back-to-school shopping day by her school friend who’s transferring to another school district. It was so sweet of that friend to invite K. I wish she’d have a great school year as well.
Now that K is in high school, we expect her schedule will be a bit busy. My dear husband and I are starting to make sure our calendars accommodate K’s schedule since she is in the high school cheer squad. And we just found out that her cheer practices are 6:00 A.M. on school days. That means our wake up time is 4:30 A.M..
Years pass by so fast. In the next four years, we’ll be having a college student. For now, we’re gonna enjoy this high school years. It’s going to be wonderful!
