As always, tonight we had a GREAT Christmas Eve! As in years past, we had a great dinner, caroling, and nativity! We got together with 3 other couples and their families for dinner and had a wonderful spread! By the time we finished eating, we weren’t sure if we could walk out to the cars […]
Tonight we had our Ward Adult Christmas Party. It was a ton of fun. It was held at the White Eagle Owners Club which was very nice because the place came pre-decorated! 🙂 All we had to do was set up the tables and decorate them. The food was wonderful (especially the desserts), and we
This week Zach was chosen in his school class to be the “Star of the Week!” He was SO excited and worked hard on his poster outlining all his interests. He looked forward the entire weekend to being able to present his poster and to talk to his class. One of the surprises he got
Today Kirstyn and her school class went to see The Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theater in downtown Chicago. I was fortunate enough to be a chaperone with her. We had a great time and really enjoyed the production. It was pretty funny. Afterward, the girls all wrote thank you notes to me to tell
Tonight, Kirstyn and I went to the second night of the Collage Concert at Metea. Again, all the groups sounded outstanding and did a GREAT job! It was a little more relaxing because Kirstyn and I didn’t have to worry about the boys making noise. 🙂 The Severn family in our ward sat by us.
Tonight I had a meeting at the district office with a group of administrators, teachers, and parents to talk about the end-user device technology strategy in district. This is an extension of the technology strategy committee I was on. It was a very interesting discussion and I am very curious to see not as much
Tonight, Kirstyn had her Still Middle School honors concert with all the top performing groups. She played her clarinet wonderfully well. She wishes she was also in the Honors Chorus, but that’s OK. She’s doing a great job with band, and if she was in Honors Chorus too, she would be going to school early
This morning, the Primary held it’s Christmas Breakfast for all the kids. Angela and I took Kirstyn, Zach, and Ben and we had a great time. I had to leave with Kirstyn part way through to take her up to her EEP program and then I came back. The boys had a great time and
Welcome to December!!! Today, Angela attended the Naperville Mayor’s Inter-faith Prayer Breakfast at the YMCA. She was in charge of all the music and it turned out GREAT! She had a string quartet from Metea Valley High School, and a duet from Waubonsie Valley High School. Everything went well until they were taking down the
Welcome Black Friday! For some VERY STRANGE reason, the girls were totally excited to get up early and go shopping! 😐 They left at about 4:30am by themselves. Angela stewed about this for awhile. She couldn’t sleep with them out by themselves so she got up, got dressed, and went and found them. They had
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! We hope you had a wonderful day today! Angela and Brittany started off the day healthy and well! They got up early and went to our Stake President’s house (Scott Clark). He hosts a Thanksgiving Day neighborhood 5k run which is becoming quite popular. There were quite a few people there this
Today was the second half (general session) of Stake Conference so we got everyone packed up and left 2 hours early to drive down to Joliet to get a good, soft seat (which we did). I used my iPad to keep Ben occupied, and again, it proved worth its weight in gold! Ben was very
