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Still Musical – Night 2

Tonight was the second night of the Still Musical and Kirstyn did an awesome job as well (according to Brittany).  We didn’t have tickets for night 2 but went over at the end to help clean up and strike the set.  After getting everything cleaned up, I took Brittany (because she wanted to be social with a certain young man – an older brother of one of the cast members), and Kirstyn over to the cast party at Culver’s.  They had a great time and came home talking up a storm.

Kirstyn was so happy that the Chorus Director there at Still gave her the chance to be in the musical.  She was really bummed last year that she didn’t get to be in it, and was really worried about not making it this year because of basketball.  We really appreciate her teacher to for giving her the opportunity to show her talents.

Way to go Kirstyn!

By |2012-06-15T05:43:52-07:00April 27th, 2012|School|0 Comments
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Still Musical & Gombert Poetry Night

Tonight Kirstyn had the Still Middle School Musical called “Once on This Island,” and Zach had Gombert Poetry Night.  Both were very excited to be participating.  I took Kirstyn over to the musical and Angela took Zach over to the poetry night.  I was kind-of bummed because Poetry Night finished up and Angela was able to come over to the musical as well, so I missed little Zach’s poetry performance.  Angela said he did a GREAT job and loved showing off his talents in writing.

The musical went wonderfully well also!  Kirstyn had a minor part but played it in a major way!  The whole cast did a great job and we were impressed.  For a middle school play, they did a GREAT job!

Kirstyn’s best friend Ashley came to see the performance and support her as well.  Kirstyn was really excited about that!

One other cool thing was that I was responsible for the fabulous tickets again this year!  🙂  They turned out pretty good and it ended up saving the production a lot of money in printing costs.  They were in full color and on a quality card stock.  The ticket was on the front and I also designed a coupon for Qdoba, one of the sponsors for the back.

What a fun night.  The musical was one that we had never really heard of before, but the music was great and what mattered the most is that Kirstyn had a BLAST!  She’s looking forward to the musical tomorrow night as well!

By |2012-06-15T05:40:19-07:00April 26th, 2012|School|0 Comments
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Literacy Night at Gombert

Tonight we had a fun time with Zach as we went to Gombert Elementary for Literacy Night.  The boys especially had the most fun listening to stories, and participating in activities.  The son of a friend of ours from another school came over with a storytelling group and performed for the kids.  It was pretty entertaining and funny!

By |2012-06-15T05:25:08-07:00April 24th, 2012|School|0 Comments
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Ward Fireside

Tonight we had a “I’m a Mormon” fireside activity at the church for a ward activity.  It was very well put together.  We had a wonderful presentation in the chapel, and then afterwards, we had refreshments and booths/displays about all facets of the church in a “trade show” format around the outside walls of the gym.  This was kind-of a “dry run” for a larger one we will be doing later on this summer or early fall where we will all invite our friends and neighbors to participate.

By |2012-06-15T05:23:11-07:00April 22nd, 2012|Church|0 Comments
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Youth Temple Trip

Today we took all the youth 12 and up to the temple to do baptisms.  It was a great experience and it was nice to have all three of my daughters up there.  This was Sarah’s last trip as a youth and she was kind-of sad that her time is almost up.  🙁

By |2012-06-15T05:20:56-07:00April 18th, 2012|Church|0 Comments
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Pearls of Wisdom

This evening we had our Pearls of Wisdom event at the church.  This is to honor all the graduating seniors.  Sarah had a huge amount of stuff set up for a display table and it was fun to see.

There were 4 seniors that participated.  Each senior was introduced by a sibling (Brittany spoke and introduced Sarah).  Then each senior, after being introduced, spoke for a few minutes on lessons learned in life up to this point, and each gave advice for those coming up.

Sarah did a GREAT job and we were very proud of her.  It is hard to believe that her time in high school is almost done.  Where has the time gone since we were giving her baths in the kitchen sink in Provo!  🙁

By |2012-06-06T11:20:30-07:00April 15th, 2012|Church|0 Comments
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Senior Road Trip and Taxes Paid!

Today Sarah paid taxes for the first time!!!  She came in a little close to the deadline, but no worries.  She ended up having to pay Illinois taxes (go figure – this state is so screwed up)…

On a much better note, Metea Valley High School had their big end-of-the-year bash, which they called Senior Road Trip.  It looked absolutely amazing and they had so much going on.  The courtyard outside was all done up like Yellowstone, they had a Hollywood Boulevard, all kinds of games, food, etc.  Everything was all included with the hefty $50 ticket fee we had to pay.  🙂

There are so many pictures that it’s hard to give a good sense of how big this really was.  Don’t have any of Sarah that I know of (these were all taken by someone else), but I’ve attached a few below…

Sarah had a blast!  Before she knew it, it was 6am in the morning and things were winding down.  🙂

By |2012-06-06T11:16:45-07:00April 14th, 2012|Home Life, School|0 Comments
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Leadership Re-Connect – Day 2

Today we had day 2 of our RLF Re-connect, and it was even better than the first day!  Cliff Higbee (our facilitator) flew out from Salt Lake just to be there with us.  He’s a great guy and we all respect him quite a bit.

We met at the Eaglewood Resort and found an area in the dining room where we had a couple of activities, mostly around catching up on what has been going on in our lives, and how our learning from RLF has helped us get through these trials and triumphs.  We also did a team building activity that Cliff brought.  He wanted to try something out on us before actually doing it in an RLF session.  We don’t mind being guinea pigs for this kind of thing!

At lunch, we drove down to Oakbrook, picked up some food from Portillo’s, and then went over to the Grant Thornton building to eat and finish the day.  I wanted to provide some give-back to the group, so I volunteered our facilities to do some presentations, etc.  We did a couple activities there, one of which was a 2-hour presentation from me on the Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) process and how it can help us with our current business responsibilities.  It went very well and I got a lot of great comments!

After the presentations, we left and went over to the Claimjumper Restaurant for dinner.  Angela met us over there and it was great to have her meet all the folks that I have become such great friends with.  We had a great dinner and awesome discussion and then we went over to Lucky Strike (bowling alley) for the remainder of the night.  We had fun bowling and eating more food!

What a great last two days.  I can’t wait for the next event!  🙂

 

By |2012-06-06T10:47:05-07:00April 14th, 2012|Work-Related|0 Comments
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Leadership Re-Connect – Day 1

Today I had an absolutely wonderful day!  We held day 1 of a 2-day Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) Re-connect with a bunch of the folks from our group.  We had 8 or 9 people there and we met at the Eaglewood Resort in Elgin.  We read a fascinating book on leadership called It’s Your Ship from Captain D. Michael Abrashoff of the US Navy.  We had an in-depth discussion of the book, and had some other activities where we sat and discussed what was going on in our lives and such.

After we had our serious activities for the day, we all went over to Chicago Motor Sports and played Whirlyball for a couple of hours.  We had a blast.  It brought back memories from our second session of RLF when the whole group went there and had a blast.

It was really great to see the folks who came.  We all wished there was more, but for those who did attend, we really had a great time catching up and enjoying each other’s company.  Tomorrow we will proceed with day 2 and Cliff (the facilitator from our session) will be there.

By |2012-06-06T10:31:30-07:00April 13th, 2012|Work-Related|0 Comments
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Teacher Appreciation, Merit Badge and Painting

Today we finally got the outside wood on the house painted!  It was MUCH needed and I had put it off for so long.  We found a painter that had done other homes in our neighborhood and had done a great job.  He power washed the wood and prepared it yesterday, and then painted today.  He even took off all the gutters and put them back on after painting.  It looks great!

Tonight, Sarah and the Laurel Class at church had a Teacher Appreciation Dinner.  She invited her Spanish teacher.  While that was going on, I taught the scouts part 1 of the Computers Merit Badge.  Fun stuff!  🙂  Sarah had a great time and next year, they are going to do it again, but expand it to the entire youth group!

By |2012-06-06T10:16:29-07:00April 11th, 2012|Church, Home Life|0 Comments
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Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Sunday

Yesterday we filled all the plastic eggs we had with candy and hid them in the back yard for our annual family Easter egg hunt.  The boys had a blast!  We invited the two little boys from next door over to join and they had a lot of fun as well.  It was fun watching the boys run around the yard and find eggs.  It’s not that much of a challenge for Zach (and the girls joined in as well), but it’s still fun…

Today (Easter Sunday), we had a wonderful day together as a family.  I had abbreviated meetings so I could stay home a little bit with everyone.  The girls got matching Easter dresses and were excited to get pictures taken with them together…

Everyone at church thought that they looked really cute together.  Brittany was a little embarrassed that she looked like everyone else, but she got over it quickly.  🙂  The meetings were really good and when we got home, we had a great dinner and a wonderful “resurrection cake” covered with white frosting and coconut.   Happy Easter everyone!

By |2012-06-06T10:10:23-07:00April 8th, 2012|Church, Home Life|0 Comments
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First Den Meeting!

Angela was called last week to be a Den Mom for our Pack and she is very excited!  🙂  She can’t wait until Zach becomes a Cub in July.  She had her first Den Meeting today and although the kids are pretty rowdy, she had a great time and loves doing things with the boys.  🙂

By |2012-05-07T05:57:09-07:00April 4th, 2012|Church|0 Comments
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