PROMOTION SATURDAY 2015!!!! I'm Now On....

OMG!!!!!!!!!! If this is a dream NOBODY pinch me cause I never want to wake up! The day was finally here and I arrived at the livestock arena around 9:45am and found my team. We signed programs and sat together one last time. I had to remind myself that it was okay to breathe. We waited for what felt like forever then our monitor gave us our papers. We held our fate in our hands but had to wait. I took off my Captain bars for the 2nd year and placed them in my pocket. I sat anxiously with my teammates. I don't think I was breathing very well. Eventually we were told to open our papers. I frantically opened my paper and in the corner of mine was a 72. Everyone frantically began comparing with their friends. Mine matched almost everyone's. Unlike last year this was a good thing! My heartbeat began to race... Could it be??? The whole room hushed to silence as they began listing numbers and mine was finally called..... and told to meet all the way at the Mountain View Room. OMG... COULD... IT....BE???????????? I definitely wasn't breathing because now I was racing up the hill with the majority of my teammates. My feet wouldn't move fast enough but I finally reached the fort. I couldn't even breathe!!! I could hear my heartbeat in my ears. I climbed up the stairs one by one. I paused for a moment at the top, embracing it, held my breath (fearing the same disappointment from last year) and turned the corner. I then saw two black, red, blue, and white flags sitting in the corners and WELCOME TO NIGHTHORSE RANGERS written on the white board. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M IN RED DIVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!! I burst into happy tears and took a seat. There was a bag of information tied with red, black, and blue ribbons and the first thing I pulled out was a crisp new red bandanna. I sort of stared at it for a little while in shock and disbelief but my hands finally remembered how to work and I took off my blue bandanna one last time and put it on. I started crying even harder, it's real, it's real, it's really real. This is really happening! More girls came in and more tears and squeals of joy were given. Once everyone had arrived (58 girls total) we went over how the year would look and what was expected of us, how things work in Red Division and so on and so forth. I cheered so loud. I remember being in the room across the hall last year listening to them scream and now it was my chance :) I must have taken a dozen pictures already. We were excused and I numbly climbed down the stairs with my red bandanna on my head. My friends and I all started screaming and hugging. We did it!!!! We took more pictures of course. Last year I watched riders come down those honored steps wearing red and now it was me!!! I really lost it here and started bawling. All my hard work over the past two years has finally payed off. I'm in Red Division!!! I still can't believe it. Wow!!! I am so nervous and excited for this new experience. I have my first ride on the 7th and two hours of diagramming. We will diagram Royal Rangers Drill (Flag) and Crimson Rangers Drill (Kaleidoscope) before stock show and maybe be promoted to those teams afterwards. (I really want Royal I'm not gonna lie!) If not then I will remain on Nighthorse and diagram their drill, Dreamcatcher. It's gonna be intense but I'm so ready! I will also find out what horse I'm going to be assigned to ride. I hope I get a somewhat consistent horse so I can develop a connection with them. I can't wait! Ahhhhhhhh! It still doesn't even feel real! Please comment below and tell me your teams!!! I've been dreaming of this moment for 3 years now. I still feel like I shouldn't have a RED BANDANNA!!!!!!! BUT I DO!!!! I was so disappointed last year when I didn't skip AAA but I am so so so so grateful, I learned so much and I am way more prepared for the challenges this year will present me. So to those of you who lateral or didn't get the dream team you wanted, make the best of it! Usually it'll turn out in the end. Then I raced and got to choose my JI horse. I chose Dodger! So I got him to JI for S6 and S4. He was perfect. BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!! NIGHTHORSE RANGERS HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!