School

Tonight was the annual VPA Review Concert for Brittany and Kirstyn.  All the music groups performed for quite the large audience.  One of the issues at Castle View is that the auditorium is VERY small and won’t even fit the current Freshman class in it.  Because of this, they have to do all these large performances like this one in the gym.  The sound isn’t as good, but it sure is fun to watch and listen to all these groups.

They did such a great job!  It’s always bitter sweet to hear your Senior Daughter’s last concert of High School!  🙁  After the concert we got some shots of the kids together (with Jacob Ramberg and Morgan Holt, both in our Ward)…

Great job girls!  We love hearing you sing and play and can’t wait for more music to come!

Tonight, Zach had his final AVA concert of the year!  He did a great job as well.  We have to laugh a little as Zach’s voice is changing a bit and he can’t sing quite as high as they want him to so he has to drop down an octave.  🙂  Our little guy’s growing up!

Great job singing this year Zach!  Keep up the great work!

Ben had his outdoor AVA concert to finish up the year this afternoon.  I took a break from work to go see him perform.  It was really cute and they all had such a fun time singing!

After the concert, they gave the teachers gifts and recognized them for their hard work.  We sure love the teachers at AVA!  They do such a GREAT job!

Great job Ben!  You’re quite the singer!  🙂

Today, Zach had a dry-run of the Aspen View Academy (AVA) choir concert.  They did a GREAT job and had a lot of fun.

The actual concert is coming up soon and we’re excited to see the finished product!

Today we got the boy’s class pictures.  🙂  They are really cute!

We absolutely have LOVED Aspen View Academy for the boys this year.  The teachers have been SO great and the boys have loved school.  We love the values that they teach there, along with the academics.

Tonight was the Castle View High School Gala for the music department.  We had a GREAT time!  This is their big fundraiser for the year.  There was music, dancing, a silent auction of tons of stuff, and service marketing pitches all along with dinner.  We bought Kirstyn and her 3 friends to do 4 hours of work.  We’re excited to put them to work.  🙂  We also got a guitar at the silent auction.  It was fun dancing and seeing our girls dance as well.

Steve and Kori Bird came down from Idaho Falls for our Stake’s Women’s Conference and came to the gala as well!  We were so excited to see them.  They stayed at our home tonight as well.  Overall, great night, great fun, and we hope that the program made a LOT of money for a great cause!

Kirstyn had callbacks for Versailles (the audition choir that Brittany is in this year) and she found out today that she made it in!  Wahoo!  Great job Kirstyn!  We’re so proud of your efforts!

Kirstyn had a wonderful Band concert tonight.  Unfortunately, we forgot the camera and didn’t get any pictures.  🙁  She did a great job as she usually does and we are very proud of her for her efforts in sticking with music in her education.  We love you!

Tonight Brittany had her orchestra concert.  It was really cool!  One of the pieces they did was the Star Wars theme and Mr. McGuffin dressed up as Darth Vader, they all pulled out their bows and on them were glowing “light saber” sticks!  Angela made all the black fabric sheaths for the bows and the glow sticks.  🙂  The rest of their numbers were great too!  Many were accompanied by video.

Great job Brittany!  You sounded AWESOME!