Bury The Survivors

So, my brother Parker and I, decided that we should start a band. I play guitar and piano, and he plays guitar, and is starting to pick up bass. After it was official, that we were going to actually do this, we called our friend Nate. He is a drummer,(A really good one) and asked him if he would be interested in playing with us. He was very excited, and said yes. Yay! Now all we had to do was find a pianist. I couldn't do it since I could not play guitar and piano at the same time. So we called our friend Kevin, since he plays piano and asked if he would like to be in a band. He was pretty excited about it, and said yes, so VIOLA! We had a band!

This is a snapshot of Parker and Nate. Yes, I know it's a pretty bad pic, but it's the only one I have of them. I swear, it's like those two hide from cameras. Parker is the one in the red shirt. I don't have any pictures of Kevin, but that's just as well since he decided to play soccer instead of being in a band. So now we have my friends mom subbing until we find a piano player.

This is me and my sister Andie. Were on my Uncle John's boat.

This the guitar\bass player, the one and only, Parker!

The piano sub's daughter, Reagan, is singing with me till we have an official piano player. So I guess she's an honorary band member for now. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you, I'm singing till we find a lead singer.

So, yeah. Now I have a band. We have already played at two parties, and both times it went great.Nerve racking, but great! It took us a while to come up with a good name, so long that my mom started to threaten us, saying she would name us "George And The Pigs." We all vetoed that name immediately, and finally decided on "Bury the Survivors". The name came from a riddle I told the boys. It goes like this:

"A plane takes off at New York. Then it crash-landed between Kentucky and New York. Where do you bury the survivors?"

If you haven't guessed, the answer to the riddle is that you DON"T bury the survivors! You bury the dead. Duh.

 Right now we are covering the songs; Its Time by Imagine Dragons, Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker, I'm Yours by Jason Maraz, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, and Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.

 The guys want to write some music, so that may be in my future, but we'll see. The guys gave all of us nicknames.Oh yes they did. Nate is Grammy,(don't ask) Parker is Uncle Bob, And i'm Cookie. I got no choice in choosing my nickname, and it kinda stuck. So now I'm Cookie.

Hope you are as excited about this as I am!

Love,

Shelby