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Last weekend was the Minnesota state-level competition for high school marching bands. And guess who won state champ for their class?? That's right, Rosemount did! They are the Class AAAA champions due to their outstanding performance in prelims. And in fact, it's the 16th time they have been awarded the State Champions title since they first won it in 2006! The RHSMB advanced to finals, and ended up winning that, as well, so they were the Grand Champions of Youth in Music. They had some really wonderful competition (Sioux Falls Lincoln and Brandon Valley - both South Dakota bands - are fantastic to watch and listen to, plus they have entertaining and thematic shows.) 

My parents, Deb, and I headed to US Bank Stadium on Saturday night to watch finals. It was a super long night, but so much fun to partake in the experience and cheer on our band!

Two of my fave people in this world!

(Deb was sitting just a few rows away from us due to ticket availability at time of purchase)


The yellow chairs make it easy for us to spot them in a crowd!


Both Ava and G had Thursday and Friday off of this week. G stayed home with me, and Ava was at marching band rehearsal for both days. The band has this weekend off, and then next week, they head to St Louis for the BOA Super Regional. We're not going to STL, but we'll be cheering them on from home (and celebrating G's 10th birthday with friends!)

Scott's up north for the weekend, and we've been very busy at home, getting things cleaned up outside for fall (turns out our pesticide that I spray quarterly does an AMAZING job at keeping the Asian beetles at bay as they're trying to get into our house. I cleaned up 50+ little bug corpses on our front porch today.)

I'm grateful we have a less active weekend so we can take it easy for a few days before another super busy week starts (PSATs, birthday, rehearsals, STL, etc...lots going on!)

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