Today was a pretty busy day! Kirstyn (in addition to basketball practice) had auditions for the school musical. She is very excited for these and has been practicing like crazy. She really felt bad last year after not making it and is determined that this year, she will be in it. She is (as are […]
Today was Kirstyn’s first basketball game as a Lady Bulldog. We had a great time watching her. She still isn’t 100% sure exactly what she is supposed to be doing as she has never played competitive basketball before, but she did great! She even scored!!!! For me, that was the best part of it, even
Yet another really busy Saturday… This morning, Kirstyn went to EEP where they discussed electronic circuits. She loves being a part of the engineering program. I had to hurry and go pick her up after her event and ran over to Zachary’s second basketball game. He had a great time and they WON AGAIN!!! Two
Tonight was very cute. Sarah took time out of her busy schedule and took Zach over to Gombert Bingo Night for a date night with her little brother. Zachary was so excited to be with his sister and to have fun at the school. They didn’t end up winning anything, but both had a GREAT
When I got home from work today, Kirstyn was totally excited! She made the Still Middle School Basketball Team! She doesn’t know which team she will be on (7th Grade Double-A or Single-A) but her hard work and hustle at tryouts really paid off! 🙂 She thinks that she will be on the Single-A team
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 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
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
Today was a pretty busy day! Kirstyn had her Engineering Program (EEP) at NIU in Naperville and was very excited to go. She loves all the activities that they do, and is excited to become an Architectural Engineer herself! 🙂 After she got done, Kirstyn and I joined the rest of the herd over at
Today, Angela flew home and we are so excited to have her here with us! We missed her so much! Her flight went well, although she didn’t get bumped up to get more leg room. 🙁 Her flight from LA was a little delayed so she got back home a little late! A sister from
