We had an incredibly WONDERFUL Hobbs Family Reunion in Nauvoo, Illinois on June 23-25! Mom, Dad, all 8 kids and their families, Auntie Carla Fisher, Sue and Arlen Mounteer, Ben and Ashlee Despain, and Corey and Ashley Mounteer were there. 49 in all! We all met on Tuesday the 23rd and had lunch, watched the “Just Plain […]
Brittany recently applied to participate in a leadership program through the city called the Aurora Leadership Institute (ALI). Only 30 kids each year are accepted, and out of the hundreds of applications submitted, she was chosen! We are very proud of her for her desire to do this. It is a week-long, all-day leadership program (starting
Brittany is participating in a track club this summer through Waubonsie Valley High School. She attends practices daily and has a few meets throughout the summer. She is very excited for this becuase she is participating with her good friend Christina, and she gets to work on her skills at the 200, 400, triple jump
I just finished up session #4 of 6 in my Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) today. Yesterday and today were, as usual, outstanding as I was able to get back together with my new friends and participate in a wide range of leadership and book discussions. On Monday, I led the book discussion on “Made to
Today, I (Kirk) was selected by the School District’s CIO to be part of the District 204 Community Technology Forum. This is a volunteer forum that I applied for and was selected. I am very honored to participate with other technology-minded members of the community to help make our district a better place to be
Last night, we held our 5th Annual Teacher Appreciation Dinner for the kids’ teachers. We honored them with a dinner, a program (where the kids read poems and letters they had written – Zach also read a book all by himself , sang songs, and played music), and a gift. This year, Sarah invited Mrs.
WOW! It’s hard to believe that Zach is now done with pre-school and will start next year Full-Day Kindergarten! He has LOVED pre-school and his teachers have been GREAT! We are so thankful to them for how much they have done with him! He went to the Zoo with the class this year and loved
This Memorial Day was crazy busy! While Sarah marched in the Aurora Memorial Day Parade with the Waubonsie Warrior Marching Band (Angela and Ben watched), Brittany, Kirstyn, and Zach went to a Kane County Cougars baseball game (Kirk watched) as part of the Ozzie Reading Club. We had a GREAT time and loved it! Go
Kirstyn participated in the 4th Grade State Fair at Gombert Elementary last night. She sang in a chorus, and had a speaking part on the program, part of which was leading the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. After the program, we went into the library where they had all the kids state floats set
Brittany finished up her track season with Still Middle School yesterday and they did extremely well! Brittany was not feeling well at all (sore throat, headache and chills) and the poor thing ran her heart out in the 800 Meter Relay (where she ran the 400 meter leg). Although her team came in last, Brittany
Sarah has LOVED attending Seminary at the church this year! Every morning she is up and ready to go for a 5:55am start! Seminary graduation was held tonight for all graduating Seniors, and at this graduation ceremony, Sarah was awarded the Stake President’s Award. This is the highest achievement award you can get in Seminary.
Today we attended the District 204 Fine Arts Festival at Waubonsie High School. We were there for much of the day as all three girls had displays and performances. Sarah played the flute and piccolo with the band and did very well. Her band teacher asked her if she would learn to play the piccolo
