Emily was inducted into the Central Valley High School chapter of the National Honor Society tonight. She is lighting a candle at the table in the middle of the picture.

Dad says: Emily performed with the Central Valley High School marching band yesterday at the Sounds of Thunder marching band competition in Spokane. They brought home the Grand Sweepstakes award and swept the caption awards for their division.

The competition was fun but it was freezing! We were given hot bag thingies to keep our hands warm. They worked pretty well until we went to the awards ceremony. We had our gloves on every second before this so our hands had stayed pretty warm but we weren’t allowed to wear them during the ceremony so our hands were numb. At the last performance I could not feel my fingers or move them so I ended up playing most of the song with two fingers! Besides this little detail I had lots of fun, not to mention we kicked the other people’s butts! In the video I’m the one standing behind the black box thing, enjoy!

There was a YouTube video here from the competition, but it is gone. See this post for the other video from the competition.

This video was taken last weekend at the Cavalcade of Bands in Pasco, Washington. Emily is at the synthesizer, behind the black box to the left of the timpani.

Emily - Fall 2009

It’s fall, which means time for school pictures. They took pictures at the high school before school started, so we’ve got her picture back already.

Emily was pretty happy with the results this year.