Happy 23 years Angela! What wonderful ones they have been! Today we celebrated by going to Greeley where Jim and Heather blessed their baby along with Heather’s sister’s baby.
We had a fun time and ended up staying for the dinner afterward. They brought in a big military truck and gave the kids a ride around the neighborhood in it.
Unfortunately, Brittany had to work, so she wasn’t able to come with us. We missed her. Congrats Jim and Heather!
Today, Zach went on a trip to the zoo with his mom as a chaperone and they had a great time. Tonight, Brittany had Mormon Prom. She went with Ammon Gatrell and a bunch of other awesome kids and they had a wonderful time as well. We got tons of pictures of them…
Brittany has some great friends who have really made her feel welcome and loved since we made the difficult move for her here. We are so grateful to them for their friendship! 🙂
Zach and I finished the loft in the garage we started building! We had a great time together building it and it turned out great!
Zach learned a lot of things about measuring, cutting, support beams, etc. He and Ben are looking forward to many great hours playing up there. They already have plans for decorations and furniture up there! 🙂
Today, Zach had a dry-run of the Aspen View Academy (AVA) choir concert. They did a GREAT job and had a lot of fun.
The actual concert is coming up soon and we’re excited to see the finished product!
Today we got the boy’s class pictures. 🙂 They are really cute!
We absolutely have LOVED Aspen View Academy for the boys this year. The teachers have been SO great and the boys have loved school. We love the values that they teach there, along with the academics.
Angela went down for a service at Garden of the Gods for AMI. I was really peaceful and at some little chapel that AMI has there.
She brought Kathryn Holyoak by on the way to take her to the airport. The boys were really excited to see her. 🙂 They ran up and gave her huge hugs! She wasn’t sure that they would really remember her, but they sure did! 🙂
VERY busy day today! Tonight, Brittany went to Castle View’s Prom with Austin. They doubled with Sierra and Dallin. Before that we hurried and went over to Andrew Ahlstrom’s open house for his mission. The Ahlstrom’s are friends of ours and she is in the Stake Relief Society Presidency with Angela. This morning, Kirstyn and Angela had a young women’s service project (Project Recycle). Zach and I started building a loft in the garage as a play place for the boys.
Brittany had a GREAT time at the prom. They all looked so good and we took a ton of pictures of them.
The after-prom party was pretty cool as well. They rented out an entire fun center with ice skating, broom hockey, all kinds of activities and tons of food! I went and helped out from 11:00 to 3:30am. I got home at about 3:45 and crashed. 🙂
Angela went to the national American Mothers (AMI) convention today. It was a great experience for her. She got to see Kathryn Holyoak there which was fun. Kathryn is the Mother of the Year from Illinois this year.
The downer about going was that she was nominated to be on the national board and someone poo-pooed it because she doesn’t live in the area they wanted her to represent (which hasn’t happened before). We have our ideas why but won’t go into it. 🙂
We had a GREAT Easter weekend this weekend! Saturday we had our Easter egg hunt and then spent some time coloring eggs. The boys and Kirstyn especially had fun doing this…
Sunday we had a great Easter sacrament meeting. When we got home, we took pictures of the kids and the boys looked REALLY cute in their new Easter outfits. 🙂
We missed having Sarah with us for the pictures, but we have some great shots of her so you can check them out on http://sisterhalliday.blogspot.com.
Tonight, the Stake held their annual teacher appreciation dinner for all the high school seniors. Angela had to go to YW, so I took Brittany. Had a GREAT time! I love these kinds of events because I don’t think that we show appreciation to our teachers nearly enough. They work so hard for our kids. Brittany nominated Mr. Schneider from Metea and obviously he couldn’t come, so she had to go up front by herself to accept the plaque on his behalf. 🙂 We’re going to get a picture for it and then send it out to him as soon as we can. 🙂
Today the Stake held an incredible Women’s Conference that Angela and the Stake RS Presidency put on. I went to help serve the food and clean up. It was amazing how much work went into this conference and how many people were involved in making this a success. Great job Angela and all!
Tonight we had a BBQ at the Liddell’s with the Bird’s and the Pocock’s. It was great to have the Bird’s there and reminded us so much of all those old times in Naperville! Great food, great friends, and fun!
Julia Liddell brought her boyfriend (soon to be fiancee’) home and we all grilled him. He seems like a really great guy and we’re really excited for Julia and her future. 🙂
Tonight was the Castle View High School Gala for the music department. We had a GREAT time! This is their big fundraiser for the year. There was music, dancing, a silent auction of tons of stuff, and service marketing pitches all along with dinner. We bought Kirstyn and her 3 friends to do 4 hours of work. We’re excited to put them to work. 🙂 We also got a guitar at the silent auction. It was fun dancing and seeing our girls dance as well.
Steve and Kori Bird came down from Idaho Falls for our Stake’s Women’s Conference and came to the gala as well! We were so excited to see them. They stayed at our home tonight as well. Overall, great night, great fun, and we hope that the program made a LOT of money for a great cause!
