Happy Birthday Angela! 37 is still very young! 🙂 We had a little party for Angela tonight and had one of her favorites… Key Lime Pie for her cake. Kirstyn baked cupcakes for her as well which she loved doing for her mom. Brittany made wonderful honey butter the other day for her Young Women’s […]
Sarah, just like Brittany, has been busy on the leadership front. As a marching band section leader at Metea Valley High School next year, she just completed a 2-day leadership seminar at the VanderCook College of Music in downtown Chicago. They learned leadership skills as well as worked on sectional music practice. She is very
All this week, Brittany has been in a leadership program sponsored by the City of Aurora. This “Aurora Leadership Institute” was held at the Illinois Math and Science Academy and taught them all kinds of leadership skills such as: Ethics Teambuilding Communication Relationship Building Team Dynamics Values Service Today Brittany graduated from the program and
Tonight we went to a great concert at West High School in Aurora. The group was called Ac Rock and is an A Capella Rock and Roll group. They sing selections from the 50’s to the 90’s and are very good. Ben was rocking out back and forth, and the girls really loved it. At
Carmen gave us a call this evening… She said that she made it home safe and thanks again for the great time! With the delays, she didn’t make it home until almost midnight their time. When they called, it was about 2 in the morning and they were tired! 🙂 That’s a LONG time to
Today Carmen headed back to Spain and we were all sad to see her go. I picked up 20 packets of pink Kool-Aid for her to take back with her which she was very excited about. They don’t have that there and she probably drank at least 15 liters of it while she was here.
Today was the last full day with our family! I can’t believe it’s already been a month and Carmen is going home tomorrow. We will miss her very much. She has really become part of our family. Hopefully she will be able to come back soon or we will be able to go over there
Wow! We can’t believe it! This is the last Sunday that Carmen will be with us! The time has gone so fast! We don’t have any pictures today because we really didn’t do much outside of going to church. As usual, I got up early for all my early morning meetings. Everyone else got up
Today was quite relaxing yet busy at the same time. Angela left early and went with a bunch of her friends from church to the Chicago Botanical Gardens. They had a very enjoyable time there and she got some great pictures… She said it was absolutely beautiful and there were so many wonderful gardens and
Today was very tiring but a wonderful day as well. After getting up and eating a great french toast breakfast, we got ready, piled in the van, and drove to downtown Chicago. We went to the Field Museum of Natural History. We are members there (purchased a family membership this year) and thought it would
Today was a great day! Things were pretty quiet until about 11:30 at which time Angela took Carmen to the mall parking lot to go on the last excursion of the trip… a Chicago White Sox game. When they arrived at the mall, 3 limousines pulled up to take them downtown! There were 2 stretch
Today was a pretty busy day for everyone. Carmen ate birthday cake for breakfast! 🙂 That sounds like something I would do! While I was at work, Angela took the kids to the park to play and then to the library. They had a lot of fun. Ben’s favorite things to do are to swing
