Brittany got a job working at Anderson’s Bookstore and today was her first day of work! Right now, she’s working in the warehouse sorting and getting books ready for book fairs at schools all over the area. She really enjoys it and loves the people she works with, including one of her best friends! Great job Brittany! We’re proud of you! 🙂
Today Angela had an American Mother’s meeting at our house and so we all did our best to run errands and keep things quiet while they were in their meeting. We had about 10 or so people show up from around Illinois. This evening we had a special event that we went to. About a year ago, we lost a friend of the family and tonight, we celebrated his life with “Lonny’s Lights at Night” Memorial Walk. People from all over the neighborhood met together, put on t-shirts we had for the event, brought flashlights, and we walked a route around the neighborhood and the lake path to celebrate Lonny Greenwald’s life. It was a great thing to support his wife and daughters.
Today Brittany performed in the Labor day parade with the Metea Valley Marching Mustangs! She had a fun time and the band looked so great and professional. They sounded great too!
Everyone was trying to be so serious so we decided to try and make Brittany smile or laugh. She tried SO hard not to, but we succeeded as you can see above. 🙂 Great job Brittany! We’re very proud of you! Happy Labor Day everyone!
Angela came back home today from Provo, and I didn’t have to pick her up from Milwaukee!!! Yea! It was hard for her to leave Sarah and come back home, knowing that we wouldn’t see her again until Christmas break. I think it will be hard when we just don’t see her around the dinner table every night. 🙁 She’s where she needs to be, however, and we’re very proud of how hard she’s working.
We’re also glad to have Angela back with us, however! We had a lot of fun and played a lot while she was gone, but there’s nothing like having my wonderful wife at home to hug! 🙂
Today was a GREAT day!!!! A VERY nervous Brittany went over to the DMV to take her driving test to get her license… 😐 She had nothing to worry about because she passed with flying colors!!!
She’s working hard on thatI guess we don’t have to worry too much now about watching over our shoulders and staying off the sidewalks! 🙂 I treated her to a McDonald’s breakfast (I know, yuck, but it was very close and fast, and that’s what she wanted)! 🙂 Great work Brittany!!! I still have to take her to Seminary every day and she needs to get a ride to school because she’s not quite done with her Personal Progress for Young Women and she has to complete that before her driver’s license will be “official.” She’s working on it hard and should be done within the next couple of weeks!
In other great news, Sarah found out that through her re-audition process, she was the ONLY freshman to make first piccolo in the marching band!!! What an outstanding accomplishment! She is on cloud nine, but will have to work harder as the pieces for first piccolo are a little more involved and difficult! Yeah Sarah!
We are so proud of our kids and everything that they do! 🙂 Can’t tell, can you? 🙂
Today Sarah got up early and reported to the first day of BYU Marching Band Camp! She was a bit nervous, but all those feelings went away as they got to know each other and started working on fundamentals and drills. She says that she has a wonderful section that she can’t wait to get to know better!
While Sarah was working hard out in the hot sun, Angela drove up to Bountiful to attend the funeral of her Great Aunt Grace. She was the sweetest lady and always had a smile on her face. Her passing was very timely for Angela to be able to attend and she got to see some family members that she hadn’t seen in awhile.
When Angela and Sarah called home tonight, they were very tired but happy! Sarah’s first day went great and she can’t wait until tomorrow! They have some “re-auditions” to “place” them, and Sarah is nervous! 🙂 You’ll do GREAT little lady! 🙂
Today was Sarah’s first full day in Provo! Since things really haven’t started up yet and her ward did not meet, Angela picked up Sarah and they went to church with Greg and Lisa. It turns out that there is a rule that Angela can’t stay in Sarah’s room, even though she is her mom, so Angela is staying with Greg and Lisa while she’s out there. That was a real let-down for Angela and she was bummin’ about it.
Anyway, after church, they enjoyed the afternoon, and then Sarah went to a Sunday night marching band fireside to kick off the season. Marching band camp starts tomorrow and she can’t wait to get going and meet new people, learn new things, and have a blast! She can’t wait for that feeling to perform in front of 65,000 fans! 🙂
Today was very quiet on the Illinois front, but VERY busy on the Utah front! My cousin Carli got married today, and so Angela and Sarah went to support the family. While they were at the temple, they ran into Mark’s favorite old mission companion, Elder Hales! What a small world!
It was great for them to see family and friends. In addition, Mom and Dad Hobbs came down and so they went and hung out with them for awhile too, which was enjoyable for both.
After having fun with everyone, they went down to BYU and got Sarah checked into her apartment. She sure has a lot of stuff that I’m not sure where she’s going to store it all after this year. 🙂 Angela then took Sarah out shopping to get even more stuff so Sarah would be all ready to go! Sounds like they had a blast! Sarah can’t be more excited both for school and marching band! Go Cougars!
Today, we got up early, and I drove Sarah and Angela to Milwaukee to fly out to Provo for school. 🙁 It doesn’t really hit you until it’s staring you in the face! Getting Sarah out with all the luggage they took (in addition to all the stuff we drove out earlier) was a miracle in itself! I think that both Angela and Sarah were maxed out on the weight of luggage they could take. Angela cut way back on what she took with he to fit all of Sarah’s stuff! 🙂 We had to re-pack a bunch of stuff and keep re-weighing the luggage to make sure we weren’t over. 🙂 It’s hard to believe that we are down one and have two more knocking at the door. 😐
This afternoon the Marching Band had their parent preview and it was great to see how much they have done so far! I will be helping out with the Pit again this year and am looking forward to it. This year the show is “The Music of Styx” and will be really cool!
The band did a great job and are really excited about the music this year! We felt bad that Angela had to miss it! Brittany did a great job, although she didn’t think so. 🙂
Great job Brittany and we’ll miss you Sarah!
Today we had a big and busy day! We started out going to the temple to take pictures of Zach in his suit (like we do for all the kids when they are baptized). We had an enjoyable time there and Zach looked so cute in his suit and tie. 🙂
After the temple, we drove over to the Chicago Botanical Gardens where we spent the rest of the day relaxing and viewing beautiful flowers, trees, and landscapes. We had never been there before as a family (Angela was the only one), and we very much enjoyed it. At first everyone was not too happy that “mom was going to make us do this,” but when we got there, the mood changed! 🙂
By the time we had walked at least 7-8 miles around the place, we were exhausted and ready to go home and take a load off our feet! We got some GREAT pictures and had a great time together. The day couldn’t have been any more perfect! It wasn’t too hot and the sun was out and shining! Good last weekend family activity before Sarah leaves to go to school! Sniff sniff… 🙁
Sarah got a new piccolo the other day because they don’t march with flutes at BYU in the marching band. She’s pretty spoiled! A new open-hole flute for Christmas, and now a new $1,100 piccolo for band! She’s not even gone yet and we already feel the sucking sound for money from Provo! 🙂 She has started up her lessons again to get prepped for her marching band camp in about 10 days. We can’t believe she is already leaving. 🙁
Happy BIG 40th Birthday Angela!!!!!
Wow! Where has the time gone! Since you won’t let me do a surprise party for you, I guess I’ll have to do the celebrating here!
We had a great day celebrating Angela’s birthday. We had a birthday Family Home Evening, and Angela opened her presents. She got a lot of cool stuff from family and friends!
As part of the birthday celebration, the boys created a music studio, practiced their hearts out, moved the studio upstairs, and performed a birthday hit for their mom! 🙂
It was the cutest thing! They were rocking out and having a blast! 🙂 Zach was quite the drummer, and Ben was quite the lead guitarist! 🙂 After they performed, we had cake and ice cream. Hope you had a GREAT birthday sweetie! I can’t believe it’s been 21 years and every year keeps getting better and better! I love you beautiful! 🙂
