Today the Metea Marching Mustangs had their first home game performance! They did really well for their first full show presentation to a live audience! Brittany was really excited and couldn’t wait to get together with all her band friends! This year, Brittany is in the color guard again and gets to carry the American […]
Angela came home from BYU just in time because school started today! We didn’t get a picture of Brittany because we had to leave early, but we did get pictures of Kirstyn and Zach before they left for the day… They were so excited to go today to see friends they haven’t seen for awhile,
Today Sarah got up early and reported to the first day of BYU Marching Band Camp! She was a bit nervous, but all those feelings went away as they got to know each other and started working on fundamentals and drills. She says that she has a wonderful section that she can’t wait to get
Today was Sarah’s first full day in Provo! Since things really haven’t started up yet and her ward did not meet, Angela picked up Sarah and they went to church with Greg and Lisa. It turns out that there is a rule that Angela can’t stay in Sarah’s room, even though she is her mom,
Sarah got a new piccolo the other day because they don’t march with flutes at BYU in the marching band. She’s pretty spoiled! A new open-hole flute for Christmas, and now a new $1,100 piccolo for band! She’s not even gone yet and we already feel the sucking sound for money from Provo! 🙂 She
Yesterday and today, Brittany had a Marching Band leadership conference at the VanderCook College of Music in downtown Chicago. She was really looking forward to going because Sarah had said so many good things about going there when she was a Section Leader. Brittany is the Section Leader for the Pit this coming year and
Today was a VERY long day! Sarah found out that the niece (I think) of some friends of ours is in the Marching Band at BYU and is the piccolo section leader! She was in town visiting and so Sarah and Kristen went up to meet and talk with her about expectations, etc. What a
Today we got an e-mail out of the blue that Sarah had made the BYU Marching Band! She was so excited when she found out that I thought she was going to hyperventilate! 🙂 She had given up hope that she would make it and boy was this a great surprise! Since they don’t march
Today we went and saw Kirstyn’s Summer Chorus Concert at Metea. The kids had been working really hard all week to put on this concert at the end of their summer music experience. They did a GREAT job! It never ceases to amaze me at how good the music program in our district is. The
Today Kirstyn started a summer chorus program at Metea Valley High School. It is for all the middle schools in the district to give them practice and prepare them for the next year. Our district is great at doing these kinds of programs and it is wonderful to see how much time and effort they
Today was a busy day in our household! Kirstyn started her 2nd year of Engineering Camp at Northern Illinois University and is looking forward to a great week. She’s going to the camp with Ashley Smith, one of her best friends, so they should have a wonderful time. Ben and Zach also started swimming lessons.
Tonight, Sarah attended a BYU Jumpstart Party at the home of an alumni here in Naperville (member of the Naperville 1st Ward). They had a great time meeting many of the incoming freshmen they would be going to school with. The main reason to pull them all together was to give them a pep talk
