School

Tonight, Sarah was awarded the Indian Prairie Scholar Award.  Throughout Sarah’s high school career, she kept up her GPA to qualify for this prestigious award.  Indian Prairie Scholars recognizes seniors who have maintained a GPA of 3.6 or greater throughout their high school career.  The ceremony took place in the Metea High School auditorium, and there were about 180 kids that received the award.  That is absolutely outstanding for how competitive the environment is here and how difficult the classes are!

Sarah was there with a few of her friends who also got the award to.  It’s great to know that Sarah has such great friends that have their priorities straight and know what they want to accomplish!  Way to go Sarah!

Tonight was the Marching Band Banquet for Metea.  As usual, the food and entertainment were great!  The skits the kids put on to make fun of themselves were pretty funny, although 90% of the stuff they did was “you had to be there” things.  The directors were honored and the seniors were as well.  It was bitter sweet for Sarah.

The final performance was sad for them, but this was the “final” event for them as a marching band, and it was kind-of sad.  Brittany is looking forward to Marching Band next year, and Sarah will be auditioning for BYU Marching Band in the spring.

Tonight, Kirstyn had her Fall Band Concert!  She did a GREAT job!  She has been practicing hard and really wants to do well.  She loves playing the clarinet.

Great job, Kirstyn!  Keep up the wonderful work!  We love to hear you play your music…

Tonight was Senior Night at the football game.  They recognized all the seniors from the football team, cheerleading, marching band, and color guard.  It was fun!  Angela and I got to go down on the field and be recognized with Sarah and they gave a flower to Angela.

The marching band did a GREAT job!  It was the senior’s last performance and for some, it was very emotional.

We also won the game and ended up with a 4-5 record.  Not bad for having our starting quarterback out for the last half of the season with a busted-up knee.

Tonight, Brittany had her fall Orchestra concert and it was awesome!  They played some pretty difficult pieces.  We really love the Metea auditorium.  It has great acoustics.  They really put a lot of work in to designing it well.

It also helped that we have extra babysitters to stay at home with the boys so we can enjoy the concerts without having to take Ben out half way through.  🙂  Brittany is a second violin and is first chair!  Way to go Brittany!

Tonight, Sarah had her fall band concert at Metea in the auditorium.  She did a GREAT job playing her flute and piccolo.  It’s really cool that she was asked to play both in the concerts.  They played some really nice music.

At this level, they play more than just typical marches that you would expect from a band.  The music is “prettier” and more symphony-like.  We are very blessed to live in a school district with one of the best music programs in the nation.  The kids are really pushed to excel and they rise to the task!  🙂

Great job Sarah!

Today was a VERY exciting day!  First, Zach got his cast off!  He is sooooo excited!  He can’t wait until tomorrow’s football game so he can play without his club!  🙂

Tonight, Sarah and Angela went to a meeting with Utah State University to learn more about their programs and to see what kind of scholarships Sarah might be eligible for.  They took Sarah’s transcript and ACT score information with them.  The understanding is that there were some “spot scholarships” that would be given there and Sarah was hopeful.

They had a great time there and learned a lot.  The best thing, however, was that Sarah was awarded a pretty good-sized scholarship!!!!!  🙂  She gave them her transcript and ACT information and talked with the admissions folks for awhile.  They were very impressed with her and ended up giving her a non-resident tuition scholarship worth about $13,000 the first year, and about $4,000 the second year!  🙂

Needless to say, Angela and I are very happy about this too!  She still wants to go to BYU Provo, but USU is a great school for education and we’ll see what happens!

Congrats Sarah!