Today, I took Kirstyn to her Engineering Program activities at Northern Illinois University (NIU) Naperville Campus. She had a GREAT time building electronic boards and such! For the rest of the day, we just relaxed, played games, watched movies, and did all the things that Mom would probably not let us do on a Saturday! […]
Today the kids had no school as well so I was able to go to work again! I’m saving the days for Christmas and for this summer when we’re going to be running around like crazy with mission returns, college drop-off, possible wedding, etc. 😐 Again, the kids did a great job getting along and
Angela arrived in Japan safely and happy today! She’s pretty worn out from the flight and is trying to make sure she sticks to the daytime/nighttime schedule over there so she can minimize the jet lag she’ll feel. With a 15 hour difference and loss of time, it will be tough, but we know she’ll
Today, I took Angela to the airport and she started on her LONG journey to Japan! She is really excited to go, although not totally excited about the long trip. She said she wouldn’t know what to do with herself traveling for 17+ hours with no children! 🙂 She flew to LA and then jumped
Tonight, Sarah was awarded the Indian Prairie Scholar Award. Throughout Sarah’s high school career, she kept up her GPA to qualify for this prestigious award. Indian Prairie Scholars recognizes seniors who have maintained a GPA of 3.6 or greater throughout their high school career. The ceremony took place in the Metea High School auditorium, and
Tonight was the Marching Band Banquet for Metea. As usual, the food and entertainment were great! The skits the kids put on to make fun of themselves were pretty funny, although 90% of the stuff they did was “you had to be there” things. The directors were honored and the seniors were as well. It
Tonight, Kirstyn had her Fall Band Concert! She did a GREAT job! She has been practicing hard and really wants to do well. She loves playing the clarinet. Great job, Kirstyn! Keep up the wonderful work! We love to hear you play your music…
Tonight was Senior Night at the football game. They recognized all the seniors from the football team, cheerleading, marching band, and color guard. It was fun! Angela and I got to go down on the field and be recognized with Sarah and they gave a flower to Angela. The marching band did a GREAT job!
Tonight, Brittany had her fall Orchestra concert and it was awesome! They played some pretty difficult pieces. We really love the Metea auditorium. It has great acoustics. They really put a lot of work in to designing it well. It also helped that we have extra babysitters to stay at home with the boys so
Tonight, Sarah had her fall band concert at Metea in the auditorium. She did a GREAT job playing her flute and piccolo. It’s really cool that she was asked to play both in the concerts. They played some really nice music. At this level, they play more than just typical marches that you would expect
Tonight was a pretty busy night. Football practice was moved from last night to tonight and Zach and his team scrimmaged against the Steelers at their park. Zach did well. He was very excited to play a game with his cast and club off! 🙂 Everybody was excited to see him “castless” as well. 🙂
Today was a VERY exciting day! First, Zach got his cast off! He is sooooo excited! He can’t wait until tomorrow’s football game so he can play without his club! 🙂 Tonight, Sarah and Angela went to a meeting with Utah State University to learn more about their programs and to see what kind of
