EHS Homecoming 2008

East High celebrated Homecoming the week of September 15-20. The whole week was filled with many different activites... every day at the high school had a "theme", such as "Dress As Your Date" day, where girls dressed as boys and boys dressed as girls! And of course, the final day was Orange and Black Day, the school colors!! There was a parade on Thursday night, which we usually walk in with Brianna's elementary school. This year we decided not to walk and instead sit on the side and actually see the parade!! It was really nice! The Homecoming King and Queen were Scott Lahn and Ashley Vanderloo, pictured at the right. Scott is our neighbor (lives behind us!) so it was nice to be able to watch and see him all dressed up! We would see the Homecoming Royalty again at the game, but most of the boys will be in football uniforms!! Zach was also in the parade, riding a truck with the rest of his Freshman football team. I did take a picture but it is hard to see Zach because another boy's arm is in the way! Zach is in the top row, a little to the right, just kind of peeking out from behind that arm! (Can you see him?!) After the parade, the high school had a bonfire/pep rally to get everyone excited for Friday night's game.
On Friday night, EHS played Urbandale. It was a very exciting game, even though EHS lost by a touchdown! Brianna had gone to a Cheer Camp the weekend before Homecoming, so all the girls that participated in the camp got to perform at the game! They went out about halfway through the first quarter and stayed out performing the cheers they had learned! The were out there for a good twenty minutes or so!! Brianna had lots of fun!! She still performs the cheers at her brother's games!! I have posted a couple pictures of Brianna doing the cheerleader thing! (The cheerleader in one of the pictures with Brianna is one of Zach's classmates!)

The final event for Homecoming was the dance on Saturday night. The event was held downtown at the Convention Center. Zach did not attend -- not very many freshman did!! I think we only knew of three that were going!! I wouldn't have had a problem with him going if there was going to be a bunch of them going together as a group. But I didn't even have to worry about that! Zach and his friends thought they would have more fun running around toilet-papering their friends' houses! (Everyone knew about it and it was all in good fun, so no one got in trouble!!!) Except for the game loss, it was a good Homecoming!!