Halliday Family Blog

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?  🙂

Today was very quiet on the Illinois front, but VERY busy on the Utah front!  My cousin Carli got married today, and so Angela and Sarah went to support the family.  While they were at the temple, they ran into Mark’s favorite old mission companion, Elder Hales!  What a small world!

It was great for them to see family and friends.  In addition, Mom and Dad Hobbs came down and so they went and hung out with them for awhile too, which was enjoyable for both.

After having fun with everyone, they went down to BYU and got Sarah checked into her apartment.  She sure has a lot of stuff that I’m not sure where she’s going to store it all after this year.  🙂  Angela then took Sarah out shopping to get even more stuff so Sarah would be all ready to go!  Sounds like they had a blast!  Sarah can’t be more excited both for school and marching band!  Go Cougars!

Today, we got up early, and I drove Sarah and Angela to Milwaukee to fly out to Provo for school.  🙁  It doesn’t really hit you until it’s staring you in the face!  Getting Sarah out with all the luggage they took (in addition to all the stuff we drove out earlier) was a miracle in itself!  I think that both Angela and Sarah were maxed out on the weight of luggage they could take.  Angela cut way back on what she took with he to fit all of Sarah’s stuff!  🙂  We had to re-pack a bunch of stuff and keep re-weighing the luggage to make sure we weren’t over.  🙂  It’s hard to believe that we are down one and have two more knocking at the door.  😐

This afternoon the Marching Band had their parent preview and it was great to see how much they have done so far!  I will be helping out with the Pit again this year and am looking forward to it.  This year the show is “The Music of Styx” and will be really cool!

The band did a great job and are really excited about the music this year!  We felt bad that Angela had to miss it!  Brittany did a great job, although she didn’t think so.  🙂

Great job Brittany and we’ll miss you Sarah!