Cross Country and Curriculum Night!
Today Brittany had another Cross Country meet! She was feeling much better than she did on Tuesday and performed much better as well. She raced hard and passed 3 runners at the end. She was very excited! With hard work, she will continue to get better and better as the season progresses.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go see her run, but Angela was there routing her on. They got a late start and didn’t start running until about 5:30. At 5:45, Brittany had to go to her IMEA music practice with her violin, so she finished running and then booked on over to that. They were late, but the directors understood why when they showed up in their cross country uniforms! 🙂
Tonight we also had Metea Valley High School’s first Curriculum Night. Angela and I were able to go over there (Kirstyn babysat for the first hour until Brittany came home), and go through Sarah’s school day, meet the teachers, and hear about her classes she’s in. Every time we do this, it makes us want to be back in school just to have fun and learn! 🙂
For the most part, we are very impressed with the faculty at the school. They are very dedicated to making the school a success and they seem to genuinely love the kids.
As part of the Student Council at Metea, Sarah volunteered to help out at Curriculum Night. Her responsibility at first was to help Freshman parents with student schedules, and then to help and show people where they needed to go. It was great to see her doing this! She’s going to have lots of opportunities like this.
Tonight was an eye-opener for me! Sarah, Brittany and I attended a meeting at the Stake Center in Naperville where representatives from the 4 Church Schools (BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College) gave a presentation about attending these (or any other) for that matter. They also talked about the institute programs of the church in cases where a church school was not an option. They discussed tuition, scholarships, what it takes to be accepted, acceptance rates, housing, activities, sports, service opportunities, and all kinds of other interesting things. They also gave away t-shirts for correct answers to questions. 🙂
On a funner note, today was Brittany’s first Cross Country meet of the season. She was very excited but a little tentative becuase her knee was hurting her a little bit yesterday and she wasn’t sure how well she would do under these circumstances. The 8th graders run 2 miles which is an adjustment for her 1.5 mile races she ran last year. In the end, her knee was fine, but her foot started hurting and she didn’t have the kind of race she wanted, but did well for the first race of the year. They ran against Fischer which is the middle school that many of her friends who went to Still last year are going now. Great job, Brittany! Keep up the GREAT work!
BYU is now 2-0 as they totally walked over Tulane for a final score of 54-3! This moved them up to #7 in the AP Poll and #9 in the Coaches Poll! Max Hall looked GREAT and the team is very healthy! This coming Saturday they play Florida State at home in Provo! Go Cougars!
he halftime show went very well! They went out on the field and started it with the Metea Valley fight song (shown above) and then performed their halftime show, the “Magical Mystery Tour” featuring selections from the Beatles. They looked very professional out there and very crisp. Sarah really loves performing in the band this year. The band director is absolutely wonderful. She enjoyed the experience last year, but this year is a whole new thing. The director is much more relaxed, LOVES to have fun, and is great to be around. All the kids REALLY enjoy him. She also loves being a marching leader which is giving her some leadership experience. It’s great to see her out there leading the kids she is responsible for. 🙂
The football game also went wonderfully well. The Mustangs looked GREAT, especially for a team of just freshmen and sophomores! The Mustangs beat the De La Salle Meteors by a score of 28-13! Zachary was very excited at the end of the game. The starting quarterback and team captain (Jarrett House) is a buddy of his from Seminary carpooling last year. Every day when Angela would drive, Zach would come with and Jarrett would hop in the back and have great conversations with him. At the end of the game, Zach ran over and waved to Jarrett as he was coming off the field. Jarrett waved back and then ran out of his way to give Zach a high five and talk to him. Zach was thinking he was pretty cool because the star football player paid him some attention! 🙂
The Marching Mustangs were near the front of the parade, and even though they only have freshmen and sophomores and 57 band members, they looked VERY sharp! They even looked better than some of the other high schools in the parade that have all 4 years and much more practice! 🙂
What a GREAT night for football, as BYU beat #3 ranked Oklahoma to prove once again that the BCS is really a messed-up way to determine a national champion in college footaball! The Cougars held their own as they looked up at the scoreboard at the end of the game showing a 14 to 13 victory!
Tonight we had a young women and young men combined activity at the church and had a lot of fun. It was originally a movie night, but a large inflatable screen was brought into the gym (probably 10×10 foot in size) and we played Disney Scene-It, boys against girls. All of the kids were encouraged to dress up as their favorite Disney character, and we had a great showing! I was one of the judges and it was difficult to pick the top 5 and then to pick the best-dressed character! As you can see, we had some really wacky costumes, and had some very brave young men show up in full “High School Musical” attire. 🙂 In the end, the winner was Minnie Mouse, just because the cheer from the younger girls was so high-pitched and loud. The boys couldn’t scream any better!
Today was a wonderful day! We left at around 6:30am this morning and drove down to Nauvoo. Today was a big day for some friends, the Jordan Family. Carla went through the temple for the first time and then the entire family (Sydney, Carla, and their 3 kids) were sealed together. It was a very emotional time for everyone there. Many people from our ward were there to support them. We all love the Jordan family and to see them all in white in the temple was wonderful!