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Musical and Stake Conference – Part 2

This morning, we all got up, piled in the van, and drove to the general session of Stake Conference.  We went REALLY early in order to get a seat, and still didn’t get in the main chapel.  Elder Oaks came around and talked to as many people as he could, and we all got to shake hand.  Not sure the boys know how cool that was (they were excited to be kept busy with my iPhone and iPad).  🙂  The meeting was wonderful and we had a great chat on the way home about all the things we learned.

This afternoon, Sarah played for the matinee of the musical, and again, did an outstanding job.  We didn’t get to see her, but heard it went very well.

By |2012-06-19T06:59:00-07:00May 6th, 2012|Church, School|0 Comments
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Metea Musical and Stake Conference

Tonight, Brittany and Angela went to the Metea Musical and had a great time just as we did last night.

Meanwhile, I was at church meetings for most of the afternoon and into the evening.  We had the Saturday sessions of our Stake Conference and Elder Oaks of the Twelve suprised us with a visit.  He was absolutely phenomenal!  The evening sessions are always my favorite and this one was by far the best one I had attended.  Having an apostle there was amazing and the other speakers did a GREAT job.   Angela was jealous she didn’t get to go, and I felt bad that I didn’t get to go see Sarah as well.  When you have so many things going on as we do with all the kids, you just have to split and hope that everything goes well!  🙂

By |2012-06-19T06:55:50-07:00May 5th, 2012|Church, School|0 Comments
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Beauty and the Beast at Metea

Tonight Sarah played in the pit for Metea’s production of Beauty and the Beast.  She was so excited to have the opportunity her senior year to participate in the musical, and also have the chance to play music for one of her favorite Disney movies.  I took Zach, Ben, and Kirstyn and we had a GREAT time!  Ben and Zach were totally enthralled by the music and the costumes, and were VERY well behaved.

While I was at the musical with the 3 little ones, Angela and Brittany were at a wedding reception for some friends of ours.  Brittany was asked to help out, and Angela pitched in as well.  They had a great time.  Angela and Brittany are going to go tomorrow night to the production since they missed tonight.

Sarah and the pit sounded GREAT and they did an awesome job!  Way to go Sarah!

By |2012-06-19T06:49:11-07:00May 4th, 2012|Home Life, School|0 Comments
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Happy Anniversary Angela!

Happy Anniversary Angela!  I can’t believe it’s been 21 years!  It’s been a great run and I look forward to the next 21 with excitement!

21  years ago I married my best friend.  The one I have laughed with, lived for, dreamed with, and still love with all my heart.  🙂

By |2012-06-15T06:04:18-07:00May 3rd, 2012|Home Life|0 Comments
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Kirstyn Band Concert & Cubs Police Department

This afternoon, Angela took her cub scouts over to the Naperville Police Department for a tour.  They had a great time and learned a bunch about how police work “works.”  After that, we all went over to Still Middle School for Kirstyn’s final band concert of the year.  She was really excited to play and as always, loves to perform.

She is having a quandary right now, however.  She loves band and she loves chorus and will be doing them both next year, but she doesn’t know whether she’ll continue to play or if she wants to sing in high school.  She’s got another year to go in middle school, so she’ll have some time to make up her mind.  🙂

By |2012-06-15T05:49:57-07:00May 2nd, 2012|Church, School|0 Comments
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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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