Tonight we had the Metea Valley Marching Mustangs marching band banquet. The kids had a great time, and as usual, had a great time laughing about all the inside joke stuff while all the parents sat there wondering what all the humor was about. 🙂 Angela and I helped out with setting up and serving the food.
This weekend was a VERY busy and VERY exciting! A friend of ours went to the BYU vs. Utah State Game and saw Sarah. He sent us a picture of her and Kristen Blackham together…
He said they looked like they were having a TON of fun and really enjoying themselves!
General Conference was this weekend as well and we had some BIG news! The mission age for men was dropped to 18 and mission age for women was dropped to 19! As soon as the session was over, we got a VERY excited call from Sarah saying that she’s going on a mission as soon as she can! WOW! That just surprised and floored us! We are so excited for her! She wants to go in January but we told her we would talk to her about it a little bit and she should pray about it before jumping to a date conclusion. We feel she should wait until the end of the school year so she has a little more experience under her belt. We’ll see!
We also had some friends over for breakfast and had a great time getting to know them better. They are new to our ward.
We also were able to stream the Priesthood Session over the internet to our b uilding this year so none of us had to drive to the Stake Center! Wahoo!!! I was one of the folks in charge of that and so I was praying that nothing went wrong with my laptop during the entire time we were broadcasting. 🙂
Wow, what a weekend!
Tonight Metea had their first Homecoming game! Brittany and the rest of the Marching Mustangs did a GREAT job!
Tonight the Metea Valley Marching Mustangs held their 8th grade band night where all the feeder school 8th graders came and participated with the Marching Band. They played the national anthem, the school fight song, and other pre-game stuff. They got to come and meet Marching Band members who they will hopefully be playing with next year. The cool thing about it is that this year it involved Kirstyn! 🙂 She was so excited and practiced the fight song a bunch so she would do well.
Brittany did an outstanding job for their halftime show as well! They had their best night yet! Maybe it was because they wanted to show the 8th graders how it’s done! 🙂
Great job girls! You both performed wonderfully! When we told Sarah, she was really jealous that she couldn’t be there. We assured her it was probably a little more thrilling to play in front of 65,000 people than a couple thousand! 🙂
Go Mustangs!
Tonight, Brittany was inducted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society. She is very excited and enjoys so much her involvement in music in our school district. We are so grateful that our district focuses so much on the Arts! Great job Brittany!
Again!!! We have another crack in our foundation that is leaking and got the carpet all wet in a different place. So, we had to pull off the wallboard and get things cleaned up. 🙁 I then went outside and started digging a hole so it could be patched from the outside. 🙁 The funny part is that Ben wanted to help me so he got a little plastic shovel, climbed down into the hole and started throwing out clods of dirt.
Turns out I dug the hole in the wrong place (by another crack) and had to dig a second one on the other side of the air conditioner. 🙁 This really stinks! We are going to have the guys who did our other crack come and fix it. They guarantee it for life so we should be good to go soon. to put up new wallboard and replace some of the carpet and baseboards. Yuck!
Brittany got a job working at Anderson’s Bookstore and today was her first day of work! Right now, she’s working in the warehouse sorting and getting books ready for book fairs at schools all over the area. She really enjoys it and loves the people she works with, including one of her best friends! Great job Brittany! We’re proud of you! 🙂
Today Angela had an American Mother’s meeting at our house and so we all did our best to run errands and keep things quiet while they were in their meeting. We had about 10 or so people show up from around Illinois. This evening we had a special event that we went to. About a year ago, we lost a friend of the family and tonight, we celebrated his life with “Lonny’s Lights at Night” Memorial Walk. People from all over the neighborhood met together, put on t-shirts we had for the event, brought flashlights, and we walked a route around the neighborhood and the lake path to celebrate Lonny Greenwald’s life. It was a great thing to support his wife and daughters.
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!
