Today we held our 8th annual Teacher Appreciation Dinner in our back yard. We really love this event and so do all the teachers we invite. This year we had 20+ people attend, so we had to hold it outside. Because this is Sarah’s last year doing this, we decided to let her not only […]
Tonight, we attended the first annual Metea Valley High School Black and Gold Senior Awards Ceremony. All the seniors receiving awards were honored tonight, and Sarah was the recipient of the 2012-13 Illinois State Scholar award which honors students for their outstanding academic achievement during the year. Way to go Sarah! She has also received
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today was a monumental milestone for education and for our family!!! Sarah accepted her letter of invitation to BYU Provo and also signed up for her housing! We have an official BYU Baby Cougar in our family! The only down-side (and probably won’t be when she gets there) is that when she went to sign
Today Spring Break started and even more importantly for Sarah, Hunger Games came out to the theaters! They made shirts and went to the movie… Going to the movie was part of a birthday party for a guy in our ward. They had a blast and Sarah LOVED the movie! This week should be a
