The Kassel Family Project Life 365

Friday Night Lights brought the final football game of the season and Senior Night for our boy.

After watching the show from the track, the 40 Seniors in Marching Band and Color Guard were honored.

Because Laura could not be here tonight as she has SEMO Homecoming tomorrow, she wrote John a card that Andy and I delivered to him.

It is so hard to believe that John’s last marching band season is nearly over. We are so proud of him for putting in all the hard work and effort these past four years!

There are just some things in life that you never forget, and marching in the Hickman High School Marching Band is one of those.

When it is cap and gown and graduation announcement purchase day and your baby comes home with a Class of 2026 tassel, it suddenly seems too real. It was real when we had to buy them for Laura, but we still had John at home. Now, it is really real. He is the baby. Time feels like a thief today.

Andy went to St. Louis to see the Chicago Blackhawks play the St. Louis Blues with one of his fraternity brothers. He actually got to see the Blackhawks win 8-3!

The time has come to purchase a cap and gown for John. We are already two months into his Senior year.

I love when Laura sends links to the different SEMO Marching Band photo albums.

We do not get to see her march that much, so these photos help just a little.

Laura is definitely in college. Her dinner consisted of a chicken parmesan sandwich, mozzarella sticks, a Nestle Crunch candy bar, and juice from the full container.

It was a long day of marching band! It started with Trumpet section breakfast at 5:15 am at our house.

Then, the rest of us got ready and left about 9:00 am for Fort Zumwalt North High School. It was especially fun because our niece, Addyson, is in town for the weekend too!

We watched a lot of marching between both the preliminary performances and the finals performances.

Our favorite marching band worked so hard all day and nearly took first place, but they came up just short by .2 points. However, we will take it because they raised their scores from their preliminary performance by 2.6 points!

Win or lose, we love our Hickman High School Marching Band. Congratulations to all the kids on a great day of performances!