Saturday September 24

This week was "Spirit Week" at Hardin Valley Academy. This means that all week long the students and teachers had special dress up days (such as "dress tacky" or "dress like a celebrity"). All this led up to the Homecoming football game Friday night. On Thursday we had a great pep rally at the end of the day. The pep rally included all 2,000 students in the gymnasium, the marching band, cheerleaders, and the dance squad. The special ingredient was the lack of light...once everyone got in position, the lights were turned out. Completely. There were a few "black lights" and the participants in the show were dressed in white and painted in glow in the dark paint. Glow sticks, which contain a glow in the dark chemical, were handed out to the students. It was quite a scene.

Homecoming is when the students who have graduated return to visit their friends and school. It was a good to see some of our graduates and catch up on what they are now doing. Some of them commented that college is much more difficult than high school.

Yes, these are twins! The beautiful young ladies go to our church and have been faithful members of our Sunday School class. One was running for Homecoming queen and the other was an escort for one of the king candidates. Both are seniors. In our continuing series of "painted up" pictures, here are two friends who coordinated their face paint. They've got the H and the V but I can't see the A.
At halftime of the football game all the candidates were announced and escorted onto the field. Many had a father, mother or brother as their escort, while others chose a friend. Then in a suspenseful moment, the winner king and queen were announced. All the students voted on the selection.
There were many candidates for the title of "king" and "queen" of Homecoming. Here is a couple that stopped for a picture.
After the football game it was time for the "rave", the student dance. The atrium was decorated with chains of helium filled and balloons and there were hundreds of students there. I should add that it was almost pitch dark in there, the camera flash lightened up the scene considerably.
This is a sight that makes a Father's heart feel good. Nancy, our normal mowing crew, went to Bloomington, Indiana that weekend, and assigned Jacob the task of mowing the front yard. And here he is, hard at work!