Today Brittany performed at the football game with the marching band. They are getting much better and by the end of the season, they’ll really rock (no pun intended)! 🙂 They did a great job!
She’s loving every minute of Marching Band and as the Pit Section Leader, she is getting some good opportunities to be a leader and make sure everything is coordinated and going well. Great job Britt!
Angela had her first cub scout roundtable tonight! I had to give her a hard time as she went out the door in her new scout shirt! 🙂 What goes around comes around Angela! All those times you poked at me leaving in my scout shirt have come back! 🙂
Today Kirstyn auditioned for the Still Middle School Honor Choir and feels very good about her performance. She’s hoping SO bad that she can sing with them this year. Hopefully all will turn out for the best and she’ll be singing in the top choir soon!
Today Brittany and the Metea Valley Marching Mustangs went to Northwestern to perform in their annual band day halftime show. I got to go as a chaperone and we all had a really good time. Free tickets to a Northwestern game ain’t bad. 🙂 The game was in the late afternoon/evening but we got there pretty early so the kids could practice with the Northwestern Band and get ready for the show.
The halftime show was great, with a bunch of bands on the field!
Toward the end of the game, it started getting cloudy and looked like it was going to pour, so we all took off as fast as we could to get the instruments on the buses before the torrents came down. We just missed getting everything loaded so we all got wet, but we got back safely. Fun day!
On the BYU side, Sarah performed again today and Mom and Dad Halliday were able to go to the game. They got some pictures and video of Sarah.
Great job to both of the marching band girls! You guys rock!
Over the past two nights, we have been at Metea and Still for their curriculum nights. It’s always fun to meet the kids teachers and to see what they’ll be doing this year. It also never ceases to amaze me at how good the school district is that we are in. We are so glad that our kids have the opportunity to have such a high quality education! We pay through the nose in property taxes, but that’s worth it to us (at least we keep telling ourselves)! 🙂
Best of luck this year kids! Work hard and you’ll do GREAT!
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!
Today was a super exciting day for Sarah! It was VERY long and tiring, but today she got to play in her first halftime show as a Cougar Marching Band member in the stadium in front of a huge crowd! 🙂 She was so excited and she said she had a BLAST! She loves being in the marching band and can’t wait for the rest of the season. The following was clipped out of the paper by Grandma and Grandpa Halliday…
She’s in that picture of the band somewhere. 🙂 She said the energy (as we already knew) was really high and it was so fun! And… the Cougars won the game which just added to the excitement! 🙂 Great job Sarah! Have a wonderful rest of the season!
Today was Sarah’s first day of college classes! Good luck Sarah! We know you’ll do a GREAT job! 🙂
Today the Metea Marching Mustangs had their first home game performance! They did really well for their first full show presentation to a live audience! Brittany was really excited and couldn’t wait to get together with all her band friends!
This year, Brittany is in the color guard again and gets to carry the American flag during the pre-game show. During the halftime show, she is on marimba the whole time.
I am excited to be a “pit dad” again and help out assembling and taking down the front ensemble at halftime. It’s great to be down on the field with the kids. Brittany treated me really nice today! 🙂
Go Britt!
Angela came home from BYU just in time because school started today! We didn’t get a picture of Brittany because we had to leave early, but we did get pictures of Kirstyn and Zach before they left for the day…
They were so excited to go today to see friends they haven’t seen for awhile, get to know their new teachers, and start learning! Kirstyn is especially excited because she is now the big girl on campus in 8th grade and everyone will look up to them. 🙂
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? 🙂
