banquet

I so look forward to the Drill Team awards banquet every year. 

Partly because it's fun to be around friends,

partly because it's so sweet to watch the girls reminisce about the year behind them,

and mostly because it's held at Souplantation.


 And I love Souplantation.  :)


Two years we made dvds as a gift for each of Arissa's team mates, one year I made Sherry that knitted Drill Team doll, but this year I was not "with it" enough to plan ahead for anything at all.

Two days before the banquet, I decided to take photos of Arissa with each of the girls and then I figured we'd just stick them in some little frames.  But little frames weren't cheap to come by at the time, with one day's notice, so I got out my trusty die-cutter and made little doo-dads myself.






I used the pictures I had taken of Arissa with each girl, then she wrote a little note to each of them.  Tied it off with some drill team colored ribbon et voila.








The banquet was so much fun (and the food was so good!).








Arissa got to celebrate her mom-away-from-home. 








And somebody thought I was special too!







Even Jesse!