Today Sarah got up early and reported to the first day of BYU Marching Band Camp! She was a bit nervous, but all those feelings went away as they got to know each other and started working on fundamentals and drills. She says that she has a wonderful section that she can’t wait to get […]
Today was Sarah’s first full day in Provo! Since things really haven’t started up yet and her ward did not meet, Angela picked up Sarah and they went to church with Greg and Lisa. It turns out that there is a rule that Angela can’t stay in Sarah’s room, even though she is her mom,
Today was very quiet on the Illinois front, but VERY busy on the Utah front! My cousin Carli got married today, and so Angela and Sarah went to support the family. While they were at the temple, they ran into Mark’s favorite old mission companion, Elder Hales! What a small world! It was great for
Today, we got up early, and I drove Sarah and Angela to Milwaukee to fly out to Provo for school. 🙁 It doesn’t really hit you until it’s staring you in the face! Getting Sarah out with all the luggage they took (in addition to all the stuff we drove out earlier) was a miracle
We can’t believe that school is just around the corner again! Tonight we had our end-of-summer swim party at the South Pointe pool and clubhouse for the young men and women in our ward. We had a great turnout and a lot of the kids had friends come to join us. Brittany had 4 I
Angela attended her first roundtable as a cub scout leader tonight! She looks so cute in her new scout uniform! 🙂
Today we had a big and busy day! We started out going to the temple to take pictures of Zach in his suit (like we do for all the kids when they are baptized). We had an enjoyable time there and Zach looked so cute in his suit and tie. 🙂 After the temple, we
Sarah got a new piccolo the other day because they don’t march with flutes at BYU in the marching band. She’s pretty spoiled! A new open-hole flute for Christmas, and now a new $1,100 piccolo for band! She’s not even gone yet and we already feel the sucking sound for money from Provo! 🙂 She
Happy BIG 40th Birthday Angela!!!!! Wow! Where has the time gone! Since you won’t let me do a surprise party for you, I guess I’ll have to do the celebrating here! We had a great day celebrating Angela’s birthday. We had a birthday Family Home Evening, and Angela opened her presents. She got a lot
Today we had a special Stake Conference and they re-aligned ward boundaries in the northern end of the Stake. Everyone knew last week that this was coming, so the talk of the week has been about what the boundaries might be, who will go where, who will be affected, who we will get new in
Yesterday and today, Brittany had a Marching Band leadership conference at the VanderCook College of Music in downtown Chicago. She was really looking forward to going because Sarah had said so many good things about going there when she was a Section Leader. Brittany is the Section Leader for the Pit this coming year and
Angela came back home from Idaho this evening! We’re glad to have her back home with us. Unfortunately, I had to drive up to Milwaukee to pick her up! That was a pain in the evening traffic, but coming back home wasn’t really a big deal. It was nice to have some quiet driving time
