Oh no! Stay off the sidewalks! Sarah got her drive’s license today! She’s official now and doesn’t need us in the car anymore! Angela took her over to the DMV today and was really worried. Sarah was pretty worried about a couple of things that she hadn’t practiced enough on, but things went very well. […]
Today was the big day for the Memorial Day Parade in Naperville. Sarah was all set to march in the parade with the Metea Valley High School Marching Mustangs. The parade started out well and then it looked like rain would threaten it. Right before the band started marching, the rain started coming down in
Last night and today, Zachary and I are enjoying our annual church Father’s and Son’s campout with our Ward. Zach looks forward to this so much every year and about tackled me yesterday afternoon when I got home from work. He was ready and excited to go! In fact, he already had the tent, camp
Today was the last day of school! We ALL are very excited! We love supporting our kids in their activities and love to see them perform, but May is always incredibly hectic with stuff going on almost every day. Sometimes we have to split up because we can’t always cover everything together! 😐 It’s really
Today was quite the day! Brittany graduated from Still Middle School! We went over to the school early to get a good seat and they made all the parents stand outside the door until 10 minutes before the graduation was to start. 🙂 There were some parents grumbling. It’s funny how seriously people take some
Today Sarah found out that she made Marching Leader for the Metea Marching Mustangs again next year!!! Yea Sarah! She was very excited that things turned out for the best! Also, Brittany decided to join the marching band as well and play in the pit. They were looking for people to play the bells, marimba,
We had a Homeowner’s Association meeting today and Angela attended on behalf of our family. She wasn’t expecting it, but they asked her to fill an open position on the board and after some coaxing from them, she accepted. It shouldn’t take too much of her time, but now our family is in a place
Today, Angela spoke in Stake Conference! She spoke on faith in our callings and did a WONDERFUL job (as everyone expected)! 🙂 There were probably 900 people in attendance in the building with the meeting streamed over the internet to another 2 buildings in the area. She was a little nervous, but you couldn’t tell
Today was Zachary’s final soccer game of the Spring 2010 season. The weather was perfect and the kids had a GREAT time! And… They won! They were so excited! They played really hard and scored 5 goals to the other team’s 3 goals. Zachary played all the different positions, including goalie which he hadn’t played
Today Sarah had Marching Band Leader tryouts and worked hard on her interview questions to be able to do well. She was a little nervous, but she said everything went great! Her teachers were very impressed (like they were last year). Good luck Sarah! Tonight was the first annual Metea Music Awards where all the
Today was an incredibly busy day! Most of it was taken up by the District 204 Fine Arts Festival in which all of our kids (except Ben, of course) were involved. Zachary had art that was selected to be displayed. Kirstyn sang with her choir, played with her band, and had art selected. Brittany had
Tonight, Zachary, Kirstyn, and I went to the Kane County Cougars baseball game. Tonight was one of the “Ozzie Reading Club” nights where school kids can get free tickets, free hot dogs and drinks, and free t-shirts for reading a certain number of books! 🙂 When we got there, we found our seats, which were
