Swiss Days: Santa Clara City Royalty

This week was Swiss Days and so it was a very busy week for our Santa Clara City Royalty!! Sunday afternoon included a photoshoot in order to hurry and get a photo ready for the Town Hall. 

Tuesday the girls met at the town hall to put together the race packets for Saturday's 5K. Here are the girls with our Mayor, Jarett Waite. Jarett took office last January, replacing Rick Rosenberg, who served as Mayor for 19 years. 

Wednesday night included meeting the city council. 

This is the royalty with the city council and the youth council (in red). I didn't even know that our city had a youth council! Jenna and the other royalty members all decided to join the Santa Clara City youth council, and so now they will be doubly involved!  

Thursday the girls helped serve cookies at the Town Hall dinner. 

After the dinner the girls changed from their short dresses into their long dresses for the Swiss Days opening ceremonies, where they were officially introduced to the audience.  

Friday the girls helped with butter-making at the pioneer games. 

Friday night the girls helped with the Swiss Miss and Mister presentations. 

Saturday morning, bright and early at 6:00 am, the girls helped finish up the race packets for the Swiss Days 5K, and then helped with the time cards after the race. 

Here is Jenna with Clarissa and Audrey, who ran the race.

Then the girls changed into their gowns for the parade! 

Jase and Ellen brought the kids to meet me at the parade. But then Jase and Evan had to leave for Evan's soccer game. Ellen stayed with Eli and Elsie and we got some pictures of them with the royalty at the "meet and greet." You can see by Eli's face that he is NOT happy about having his picture taken with the princesses, haha! 

We got a similar picture with Jared years ago! 

After the meet and greet the girls ate take-out from Costa Vida and then headed to the town hall to host BINGO!! Apparently this is a very popular activity with awesome prizes. 

Swiss Days wrapped up around 4:00. Jenna came home and attempted to take a nap and then she and some of the royalty girls met up with some of her other friends to go to the city slides in St. George. Busy day!! 

Dixie Round-Up Parade

Who knew there were so many parades in Washington County? This is the third week in a row for Jenna, with one more coming up next week! 

Can I just say that Jenna is the BEST 1st Attendant (and friend) EVER?? She helps keep Cortie on track -- with all of the little things: communication details, navigation, rides, hairspray, and fixing her crown. She even stayed up until 11:30 p.m. last night highlighting Cortnie's hair! I think they started around 8:00 p.m. -- so it took a while! 

Preference Royalty

Jaiden got voted to be on royalty (again)! Last time it was for Homecoming and this time for Preference! She was voted "Most likely to be on Broadway!" Topher received "Most likely to be on Broadway" for the boys. This morning they had their assembly. I really wanted to go watch, but I had an interpreting job in the morning that had been on my calendar for a month. I tried seven different interpreters looking for someone to cover it but no one could. Oh well! At least I got her to take some pictures for me! 

 

Jaiden Homecoming Queen

Gracie Newbie (Senior Class President) showed up on our porch dressed in a suit with a funny wig, asking for Jaiden. When Jaiden came to the door Gracie did a little dance singing, "You're on royalty, you're on royalty, you're on royalty!!!"  

Apparently being on royalty is quite a big deal here at Snow Canyon High School -- and it is actually a bit time consuming! Since Jaiden is the Activities Rep for SCHS, she already had an extremely big week ahead of her helping to plan Homecoming Week. And now not only was she helping to plan the Homecoming Parade and Assembly, she also needed to be IN the parade and assembly. 

I asked my kids how one comes to be on royalty. They said that they give out a list of all of the seniors to the student body, asking them to circle the top 5 or 6 guys and girls that they would like to nominate to be on royalty. Then all of the votes are added up and the top six guys and girls are the royalty for that particular dance. Then some members of the exec council set out to do silly announcements to the winners letting them know that they are on royalty.  This year those announcements included things like going into someone's room early in the morning to wake them up, shooting water or silly string at someone, dressing up in a gorilla costume, doing a silly dance on someone's front porch and so forth. They record all of these and make a video which they show during the Homecoming assembly along with a video of all of the interviews they do of the royalty members. 

The royalty members are divided into groups and are asked to plan a skit to be performed during the assembly. Rick and I came to watch the assembly. Jaiden had asked Josh to be her escort.  After the assembly they had everyone vote for a Homecoming Queen and King through a voting poll on their devices and planned to announce the winners at the homecoming game that night. 

The skits... Jaiden's group did a skit from Barbie Life in the Dream House. I had never heard of it but apparently they have. Who knew that high school students watch Barbie Cartoons?

Jaiden goes to every game she can and always dresses up according to the theme for that game. The theme for tonight was " USA Out!" Thus the red, white, and blue clothes and paint! At the beginning of the second quarter she changed and met the rest of the royalty at the end of the stadium. During halftime they announced all of the members of royalty along with their parents as they walked on to the field. Then Wally the Warrior ran back and forth behind the students, finally placing the crown on the winners! (Jaiden Jensen, Homecoming Queen and Spencer Hale, Homecoming King!) 

Then the royalty rode golf carts around the track...

(Pictured) Jaiden with the other girls who were on royalty (missing one). 

Snow Canyon ended the night with a big win and celebrated with fireworks. It was a fun evening!!