Jenevive joined our church's Upward cheer leading team this year. She was so excited to get her uniform, pom poms and megaphone. She makes a cute little cheerleader if I do say so myself.

The squad was divided up of 5 teams with 8 girls or so on a team. They all practiced together ,but each team had their own time slot to cheer. Ours was 9:00 am EVERY Saturday morning. Not fun. It made it very hard to convince people to come and watch her cheer. So, a big THANK YOU for everyone that came out.

Jen did pretty good and held her own on the court. More then anything, she just had fun- and that's why we did it. Also, for some reason our very social butterfly is very shy at Sunday school, and I thought this might be a good way of getting to know some of the other girls better.

After each game, the coach and the girls sit down, talk about the game and each girl gets a colored star to put on their megaphone. The different colors each have a meaning like most spirit or leadership. There were six different colors, but for the life of me I can't remember each meaning.

At halftime, the girls did a cheer and all of the kids sat in the middle of the floor for a devotion and a prayer.

At the end of the season there was a Upward ceremony in the church where the girls got to perform their dance they had been working on all season. When I can figure out how to download it, I will post the video.

As part of the ceremony, there was basketball performer who pulled some of the kids from the audience up on stage. Don't you know they pulled Jen who was buried in the middle of the audience to come up. He spun a couple of balls on her finger and her face just lit up with excitement. Overall Jen had a great season and she will probably want to join again next year. Hopefully we get a 10:00 or 11:00 game slot.