Halliday Family Blog

Tonight we had curriculum night at Castle View High School!  As normal, Angela and I had to split up.  🙂  She went to Kirstyn’s schedule, and I went to Brittany’s schedule.  It was great meeting the girl’s teachers.  I think that they’ll have a GREAT year and learn a LOT!

Tonight the Marching Band had their first showcase (pre-competition) at Sports Authority Field in Parker (not the Sports Authority field where the Broncos play).  🙂  They did a GREAT job and played well.  By the end of the season, they’ll have an AWESOME show put together that should help them go a long way!

There were about 15 bands there performing and one of them was Thunderridge High School, the school where a good new friend of Brittany’s (Taylor Brandt) goes.  After they performed, he asked her to their homecoming!  🙂  She couldn’t have been more excited!  Two homecomings in one year at two different schools!

The kids had a ton of fun at the showcase and there is just something about marching band kids that is so cool!  They love to have a ton of fun as you can see from Kirstyn and her friend Jenna (who also is our Stake President’s daughter) below!  🙂  Kirstyn will kill me for posting this, but it’s all about the fun!

Great job tonight girls!  And…  Thanks Taylor for making Brittany’s night even better!

Tonight was curriculum night for Ben and we got to meet his teacher and learn about classroom activities.  Miss Kalaveshi is really nice and will be PERFECT for Ben!  It was awesome how much support the parents show for the school!  The whole gym was completely full for the intro presentation, and it was just for K-3!

At Aspen View (as with other charter schools), the parents are required to give 30 hours of service to the school per year which we think is GREAT!  That drastically increases parent involvement which is a wonderful thing!

Tonight was Castle View High School’s homecoming and Brittany got asked by Ammon Gatrell, a friend of hers she made in Seminary.  They went with a group of friends and had a GREAT time!

Julia Liddell wanted to see Brittany at her first Castle View Homecoming so she came over with us to take pictures as well!  🙂

Kirstyn didn’t go to the dance, but she dressed up and went to hang out with some of her friends that were going and then came home and dressed up Ben for her date!  🙂  It was really cute!

All-in-all, everyone had a wonderful time and we spent at least an hour after everyone got home talking about how fun it was.  🙂

Tonight the high school choir program hosted a spaghetti dinner fundraiser.  Brittany and Kirstyn performed “Nearer My God to Thee” in front of a huge dinner-eating crowd.  Angela accompanied them and they sounded really good.

The microphones weren’t the best so they cut out a bit, but they kept going on and finished strong!  Ben and Zach were there as a cheering section as well.  Ben made some new friends who he played Tic-Tac-Toe with which helped him stay a little calmer and quieter.  🙂  AWSEOME job to everyone to participated.

Today the high school and feeder schools had a big parade to kick off homecoming week!  We went to support the girls and the boys were really excited to see if they could get some candy which they did.  🙂  Parade route was about a half-mile long and ended at the high school.

After the parade was over, the high school had a big festival with games, inflatable houses, and all kinds of fun.  🙂  The marching band performed for everyone again as well!  Kirstyn didn’t have a lyre for her music, so she used Ben to hold her music for her.  🙂  They sounded really good.

We had a lot of fun and met a bunch of friends there who we had some great conversation with.  🙂  Great job girls (and Ben as a music stand)!  🙂

Tonight the girls had another home football game and did a GREAT job (sorry no pictures).  🙁  I’m now an official pit dad now though!  🙂  I get to help the pit with bringing all their stuff on and off the field for their competitions.  Angela is going to help out with that too!  They need a LOT of parents, especially during the competitions where you have something like 2 minutes to get everything on and set up before they start docking you points.

Great job girls!  🙂