Today Sarah found out that she was selected to be in the Pit for the Metea High School’s musical this year!!! Yea Sarah! She was so excited! The musical? One of her very favorites… Beauty and the Beast!
When she got home from school, she was walking on cloud 9! She will be playing her flute in this one and before the day was over, she was starting to play some of the music! Maybe this will help her practice more! 🙂 Great job Sarah! Congratulations!
Kirstyn had another game today (which unfortunately I missed due to time). She did a great job and is getting better with each and every game. She is starting center now and the coach has her doing all the jump balls! 🙂
Brittany also had a Percussion Ensemble concert tonight which turned out great! She loves doing percussion along side her orchestra work!
For not having their major music work in percussion, the group she plays with is really good. They work really hard to be the best they can be!
Today Sarah registered to vote! Sniff sniff… She’s growing up way too fast! Since she was there, she went ahead and voted early so she could have it done! 🙂 Great job doing your duty, Sarah!
Today Kirstyn had a basketball game at Hill Middle School. She played really well and scored 2 points! 🙂 They ended up winning and it was so exciting for her! We were pretty excited too! Unfortunately, all the games are now moved to 4pm so I can’t make them anymore. 🙁 Angela will have to cheer extra loud for the team!
I picked up Brittany and Kirstyn just as the game got over and took Brittany over to her concert at Metea. She did really well! We always love going to see the kid’s concerts! Unfortunately, since I hadn’t been home, and Angela was running the boys back home and hurrying up to the school, we forgot the camera. My iPhone didn’t get any good pictures at all so we were kind-of bummed. After Brittany’s concert, we ran home and got the camera and came back for Sarah’s concert later on that evening. She did awesome as well!
She had an awesome piccolo solo that sounded great! Wonderful job girls! You guys always never cease to impress us!
Today Angela’s was called to be a Cub Den Mom! She was very excited and can’t wait to get her scout books and start working with the boys. She will be even more excited when Zach turns 8 in July and she can be his leader! 🙂 You go girl!
Today we were very busy! The day started off with Zach and his basketball game. They played the best team so far and ended up losing their first game. They were bummed oh well, you can’t win everything. 🙂
We then had a great ward activity at the church! The young women had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser and dessert service auction for girl’s camp. The stress level in our house was quite high from Brittany and Kirstyn while they were making their desserts. Even though they were warned hundreds of times that their desserts might not sell for as much as they would like, it still affected them. Kirstyn made a gorgeous fruit tart that looked heavenly to eat!
Brittany struggled a little bit and was very frustrated… She made some absolutely awesome and gorgeous truffles and they turned out great (even though she didn’t think so). She also made some incredible red velvet cupcakes with hand-made chocolate hearts. She put strawberry slices on top as well. They started to slide off and it made things even worse for her (then came the tears). No worries, however, they turned out great!
Sarah bought a basket of stuff from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory which was really sweet since she won’t be going to camp but wanted to pitch in and help out anyway. How sweet is that!
We all made it to the church in one piece and had a great time! Even though the food was on the light side (we were at the back of the room), we weren’t there for the food but to be supportive. The centerpieces were really clever and Angela just had to have a picture of them…
The auction started and Brittany was one of the helpers to distribute the desserts when they were purchased. There were so many cool desserts there and we were excited to see how much they would go for…
One of the most clever was a cake made out of a Barbie where her dress was edible. 🙂 The picture above shows only a VERY small portion of what was there. The young women made a ton of money over the course of the evening. Brittany’s tears were in vain, as her cupcakes and truffle desserts sold for a combined $105! Sarah’s basket sold for about $80, and Kirstyn’s tart sold for $75! What a crazy thing! Ben really wanted these rainbow cupcakes so we bid $30 and were done. 🙂
He was super excited and wanted to eat them immediately! Then, being the enterprising little guy that he is, went over to Brother Lines (his buddy) and told him he really liked the green shamrock cookies! Steve put him on his shoulders and when they came up for bid, he told Ben when to raise his hand.
Steve was bound and determined to get his little buddy (who has him wrapped around his finger) the cookies and ended up spending $75 for them! Holy Cow! 🙂 He wouldn’t hear of us helping to pay for them. He really likes Ben. 🙂
What a crazy little guy he is. He wanted to then go to “Uncle Dan” and do the same thing, but we put our foot down! 🙂 The girls did a great job serving us as well, and the night turned out great! The top-selling item was a German Chocolate Cake that went for $375! 😐 Overall, the girls made almost $3000! What a great way to make money for camp (and they don’t have to do it next year because they have enough to cover it)! Great work girls!
No school today! The kids were really excited that they didn’t have to get up early! 🙂
This morning we opened presents for Ben before going to church. He got some fun stuff, and can’t wait to read his books.
This afternoon we had a fun birthday dinner and party for Ben. We asked him what he wanted for his birthday dinner and he said that he wanted “Uncle Dan” (Dan Oscarson in our ward) and his family. He didn’t care what we ate, just as long as Uncle Dan came. 🙂 We got a laugh out of that! 🙂 We also had the Sister Missionaries join us for dinner and we had a great time.
After the party, we had Zach’s Baptism Fireside at the Church. He is preparing to be baptized this year and can’t wait! At the fireside, he got his Article of Faith cards on a ring. Angela and I got a laugh out of that, because we designed those cards back when Angela was the Primary President and they are still using them! 🙂
While we were gone, Ben’s sisters let him play in his cake, and when we came home, we found a bunch of pictures like this on the camera…
What a bunch of goobers! This is typical when we leave the girls with Ben! They love to cause mischief at Ben’s expense and then have a great laugh over it! It’s almost impossible to get mad when you see pictures like this! 🙂
Today was a really busy day! To start off, Kirstyn had her Solo and Ensemble Festival. She performed both an instrumental number with her clarinet (which Angela accompanied her on) and a voice piece with a group of her friends from chorus. They did well. Kirstyn thinks that she did MUCH better on her clarinet solo than she did on her voice performance. We’ll see what kind of score each got. Great work Kirstyn! We love listening to your music!
While Angela was off with Kirstyn, I took Ben and dropped him off at a birthday party for his little friend that was born the day before him. He was so excited to go and couldn’t wait to get there. Zach was pretty bummed because they invited him to go to but he had his basketball game.
We then ran Zach up to his game. They played really hard and ended up in a tie. The strange thing is that they played Indiana (the same team name and jersey color as them). The Wheatland folks goofed when making the team assignments. 🙂
After the game we came home and did some much-needed house cleaning. 🙂 We then worked on Ben’s cake for his birthday party tomorrow! It was quite the chore, but it turned out really good. He wanted a train with multiple cars, etc. Below are a couple pictures…
In the meantime (while we acting as master cake architects), Sarah had a date!!! 🙂 The 4 of them went to the dollar store, picked out presents for each other, then came back to our house, had laughs at what they bought, ate ice cream Sundays, and had a fun time just talking and hanging out!
Today there was no school and so I took a vacation day from work to spend time with the family. The day went VERY quick, however!!! Angela and I got up early and went to the temple. We got back at around 11 and relaxed with the kids, played some games, watched a movie, etc. Turns out that Angela had a Relief Society activity at the church and that we both had an ARTSpeaks meeting at Neuqua tonight as well (so much for the entire day with family)… 🙂 We decided to split up and Angela went to her RS meeting and I went to ARTSpeaks. When we finally got home, we were pretty tired and are now going to go to bed and sleep well!!! 🙂
Zach had his basketball game today and they won again!!! He played really hard and although he didn’t get the ball much, he had a great time!
Angela got to be the scorekeeper again and she had a fun time doing that…
After the game was over, the coaches handed out the weekly “Hoosier Hustle” awards and Zach got it this week! 🙂 He was sooooo excited!
Great job, Zach! Keep up the hard work and you’ll keep getting better and better! 🙂
Today Zach’s basketball team played Coach Tony’s and Coach Jeff’s team. They got to play against the other half of their Packers football team. We were hoping so much that Zach’s team would win (at least to make up for all the losses on the football field). They did! They actually looked really good and beat the other team by a bunch. It was sad for Jeff and Tony, but oh well… 🙂
Tonight, the girls went to the basketball game at Metea (they won of course) to play in the Pep Band. After that, they drove over to the Naperville Stake Center to a church dance. They had a blast and came home talking and talking, and did I mention talking? 🙂
