Riley's Blog

Yes reality has caught up to me. Getting braces is not fun at all. My appointment was at 9 a.m. On Friday December 18 and I had a bake sale to go to at 11. I honestly thought they were only putting brackets on so that on Tuesday when the surgery happens (I'll explain in a minute) they have something to connect to. Well as the doctors were putting on the brackets, I didn't even notice them putting them on. It was kind of confusing, but then when they asked me what color I wanted, I thought to myself," I'm done already?" So I picked the color I thought was obvious, blue. So I picked blue and when they put the first one on I didn't feel anything. Then the second one came on and I felt a little tug. They put the third one on and it felt like my mouth was being compressed! It hurt so bad. When they finally got done, my mouth felt a little funny, but I was ok with that. The assistant doctor was actually a graduate last year at Monahans High School. He pl...

We've been doing absolutely great in football this year at Monahans High School. It all "kicked off" right here in Monahans, Texas against the Midland Christian Mustangs with a whopping score of 43-27. Here's something to know. That was the closest game all year. Our next was in Sweetwater which was not pleasant, for Sweetwater. It was their homecoming. We didn't let them score once. The score being 48-0, Sweetwater went home wet(because it rained) and embarrassed. It's been 15 years since we've beaten Sweetwater and more than one of those were playoff games that we got knocked out of. Leaving our mark at Sweetwater, we wern't finished. The next week was homecoming, against Pecos. I know what you're thinking, Pecos, seriously?! Not much of a game if you ask me. And it wasn't. The score being 56-6. It was a huge blowout and our biggest all year. The next stadium that we went, to I have to say, was probably my favorite. The big San Angelo Lake V...

Well as most of you probably know, I went to West Texas A&M University Band Camp. It lasted from July 12-24. Whenever I showed up with the Witchers, we went and signed in and received an envelope that said if we either paid all the fees and if we needed a picture. Mine said Paid Need Picture. So I went into the auditorium where they had 2 enterings for the paid doors and the not paid doors. I ,of course, went through the paid doors and went down to the stage and got my picture taken and put on a nametag for me. They had it all done in about 5 min. Then we went and got our teeshirt. They had this whole thing set up to where if you didn't know where to go all you had to do was look at the wall for a sign and it told you what you needed to do after you did such and such. Anyways, after you got your teeshirt you go and get a locker assigned to you for your instrument. Unfortuneatly, there were no more bassoon lockers left. So what they told me to do was go and find a loc...

Scout camp was great! The first night we stayed up until 11:00 playing capture the flag. Right before I went to bed I took off my rain fly because it was hot in my tent. I woke up at 2:30 and felt little rain drop hit my sleeping bed, and thought crud. So I wrestled with my sleeping bag for a minute or two and finally got out of it and picked up the rain fly and went outside to put it back on. As I attempted to do that the wind was blowing so hard that after I got the first string hooked on it blew off and I got it back on again. I ended up getting the stupid thing on and as I was getting into my tent I heard window zippers zipping up. That was my dad zipping up his windows. I thought that was pretty funny. I went to sleep and got up at 6:30 and got out of my tent and there was no sun. I could see just fine but it was still cloudy. We ended up going to a chiropractor to get physicals done since everyone but a couple boys "forgot" their physical. So after that we w...

My summer has been pretty much the most exciting summer I've ever had. The thing is, it's only going to get more exciting. You see the the 1st week of June I went to Carlsbad to spend time with my dad. On the 5th and 6th I went to a family reunion in Balmoreah. The next week my mom decided we should probably stay in Monahans for the boy's baseball tournament. That was probably a good idea. Nolan's team won on Monday against the Yankees 6 to 1. That was an exciting game. Since they won that game they didn't have to play until Wednesday. On Wednesday they played the undefeated Dodgers which became the defeated Dodgers, causing them to play on Friday. The Championship Game. Nolan unfortunately couldn't go because of a family reunion, but they still won. From what I hear the score was 12 to 3. They played the Dodgers. Caleb's team did pretty good. On Monday his team lost 6 to 2 against the Rockhounds. That was the worst they lost to that team eve...

This past week, the athletic program maxed out. On Wednesday, we started with either bench, or incline. I did incline. I ended up getting 105 and improved by 5 pounds since last time. On Thursday we either maxed out on squat or on power clean. I did squat. My goal on squat was 200. I didn't get it by a long shot. I got 155. I improved by 5 pounds on that also. On Friday, we maxed out on what we didn't do on Wednesday. For me, that was bench. Last time I got 110. This time, I got 115. Do the math. I improved by 5 pounds on that also. Today, we maxed out on what we didn't do on Thursday. I did power clean. Last time I got 110. This time I got 115. Se what happened? I improved by 5 pounds on everything. I thought it was pretty cool. Well that is all that is very interesting right now. Blu

3 weeks ago we had our band competition in Midland. We went to school until 4th period, and even then we still had to wait a little bit. We went just 30 min. into the period and then we were dismissed for lunch. After that we came to the band hall at 12:30 and departed at 1:00. When we got to Midland, we waited for about a half hour. During that half hour people either slept or they went to the bathroom. We went to warm up at 2:30. We performed at 3:00. President Witcher was there to listen and watch and he thought it was fantastic! I must have been because we ended up getting a 1 in both concert and sight reading. Of course we ended up getting a sweepstakes. But something even more amazing than that is that the symphonic band (B band) got a sweepstakes also! From what I hear that hasn't happened in Monahans in 10 years! A lot of amazing things happened this year including getting a 2 in marching. Not exactly the best part of history, but we turned things around in the...