Well, it’s hard to believe that August is almost over!  We’ve already been here in Castle Rock for 4 months!  Time has been going fast!

Today the boy’s Aspen View Academy (AVA) uniforms arrived and we just had to dress up the boys and get their pictures!  They are so cute in their new uniforms!  We LOVE it because now we don’t have to really think about what they’ll wear every day!  🙂

We’re still waiting for a couple more pieces to ship.  They have both formal and informal uniforms which they wear on certain days.  It will be fun to see the first day of school with all the little kids dressed up in their formal uniforms.  🙂

Tonight the girls had their first marching band performance at the first home football game.  The band is small (kind-of reminded me of Metea’s second year) when they got out on the field, but they have  a big sound.  They actually mic-up the pit for the drums and out here, they use keyboards and such as well.  It was cool!  Their show is coming along and in a couple of weeks they’ll have all three movements ready to play.

For tonight, they played and marched the first two movements.  Also, here at Castle View, the director is big on the competitions (like the director at Waubonsie was), so our Saturdays will all be filled up coming up pretty soon.  It will be fun to watch them perform a lot and we know the kids will have a blast doing it as well!  🙂  The other strange thing is that the director made Marching Band a class during the day this year (they didn’t have MB last year due to lack of participation), so everyone in Wind Ensemble is required to be in MB and any others that want to.  That makes it nice for no after school activities, but it sure creates havoc with schedules.  We hope he doesn’t do that again next year or Kirstyn will have to make some hard choices.

Great playing girls!  Keep up the great work!