Congratulations RaLee!

RaLee endured some really grueling cheerleading tryouts this week both physically and mentally. They didn't get home until 6:30-7:00pm every night. The school brought in the championship cheerleaders from Queen Creek High School to teach them a dance and a couple of cheers. RaLee brought home girls Wednesday and Thursday to help them with the dance portion. For some reason dancing comes natural to RaLee and she was able to learn it quickly and help the other girls. Thursday they practiced until 1 in the morning! The instructors from Dance Matrix studios judged the girls on Friday. After the judges had made their decision they called all the girls into the gym and proceeded to read the names of the girls that were on the Freshman squad. Her name was not called and at that point she said she got really nervous. They finally called her name for the JV squad along with her good friend Emily! She said they couldn't celebrate because only THREE of the 12 girls from last years Freshman squad made it this year. Those three were Emily, Martika and RaLee. She said it was sad to see most of last years squad in tears knowing they wouldn't be cheering together next year. It wasn't until Emily and RaLee were alone in the gym that they allowed themselves to celebrate. She said, "Mom we just stood there and looked at each other, wiped our tears and started jumping for joy and then we did a taquito roll across the gym floor." A"taquito roll" (I learned) is when they lay down with arms stiff at their sides and roll all over the place. "I'm like seriously RaLee?" Yep mom it's our thing, don't worry no one saw us! What a nut.

She is excited because they will get to order new uniforms after Spring Break. Combs High School was new this year and they only had Freshmen students. They will move into their brand new High School this fall and will actually be able to cheer on their very own football field! This coming fall the school will be home to Freshmen and Sophomores only. Adding a new class each fall until they have freshman, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in the 2011-2012 school year. The fun thing for RaLee is she will be "the" upperclassman through out her high school years. I have posted some pictures of the new school below for those that haven't seen it.

We are proud of RaLee and all of her hard work and wish her and the new squads the best of luck and lots of fun times for the year ahead. I guess this is bad news for my fellow bloggers because it means one more year of enduring "RaLee Cheer Photos"...sorry it's a mom thing :)

West end of Front of school. You can see the lights of the football field in back to the right.

Front of School between two buildings

Far East Corner-Front of School

Back of the school showing parking lots and sports fields. You can barely see the lights of the football field in the distance. I'm excited for these kids they are going to have some nice facilities when it's finished.