For my passion project, Kristi and I are planning a powder puff game between cheer and drill where football will cheer. We are doing this to raise money for cheer and drill so that we can have a little bit of extra money in our wish book account. For example if we wanted to get new bows or uniform parts we would have that extra money to use. This event would be a great way to bring in funds and be fun to watch! Cheer has some money in the wish book account but we have to use it for nationals and not everyone goes to nationals so we think it would be good to have that extra money for the people who aren't doing nationals as well. That way the money isn't just going to the competitive team.
This Year we have 21 girls and that's a lot of bows and uniform pieces! Our bows are much too big for our heads so we wanted to raise money to get new bows, and have extra money left over for other small things. Such as pink socks for pink out or, face tattoos for games, new cheer shoes halfway through the season. Cuz boy those shoes get nasty and smelly! Cheer has wanted to do a powder puff game for awhile now so we figured this would be the perfect time to plan it!
It wasn't BalloonFest ’86, but it still went hilariously wrong. My sister and I had gone over to a friends house for a summer swim towards the beginning of first grade. We had the grand idea of surfing on pool floats and we then had the fabulous idea to take it one step farther and tried to jump onto one of the pool floats. When it was my turn to jump I slipped backwards (who knew pool floats weren't very sturdy?) I fell into the ledge of the pool.. As I sunk down into the water all of the water around me began to turn red. I had cracked my head open, I remember my sister trying to swim over to me with her life jacket as fast as she could. But I eventually got out after most of their pool was filled with my blood.
The best part was the friend's mom was afraid of blood. So obviously she had a difficult time handling this situation.
As I'm standing on their pool deck bleeding she is throwing up and trying not to faint, after about 10 minutes of her freaking out she figured I should go to the hospital.. They rushed me to the hospital with a Hello Kitty beach towel wrapped around my head. They went to get me balloons from the gift shop since they felt terrible.
But then the doctor came in to give me the staples as I thought to myself "oh that silly doctor should know I wasn't feelin like getting those staples", I ran out of that room BUT my dad grabbed my arm and pulled me back to the room even though I was screaming, that I didn't want them. They held me down and I had the honor of receiving 7 staples in my head and a new hair cut... Yes,the pool ledge cut my hair clean off.. So I rocked my long locks in the front with my bob cut in the back for a while... My day of swimming fun turned hilariously wrong.
