Today Metea Valley High School had a great celebration and kick-off for the year at the building with scrimmages for all the fall sports teams. The marching band played their pre-game as well as performed their halftime show for the crowd. Things are really coming together for the band and she LOVES being a marching […]
Well, Zachary rode the bus for the first time today! 😐 Today was his first full day of school and he was pretty nervous! He went with Kirstyn, however, and she took GREAT care of him and made sure he got to where he needed to go! It was very funny however… When he came
Well, it’s that time again! Today the kids went back to school! It’s amazing how fast the summer went. The kids got out in June and with school starting earlier than normal this year, we lost almost 2 full weeks of summer! Oh well, school will be out before Memorial Day next year which will
A new record has been set! The 2008 Halliday Family Album DVD is now finished! Normally it doesn’t get done until Christmas of the following year, but it’s August! This year’s theme is “Unplugged” and refers to no flashy dress-up like in the past (i.e. previous years were things like Halliday Incredibles, Meet the Hallidays,
Overall, the past week went very well (Zach party, High School Orientation, parties, band parent preview, etc.)! The kids will be starting school this week and aren’t too wonderfully excited about that! This has been a short summer. The kids got out in June and this year, school starts on the 20th of August! Where
Today Angela and I went up to the new high school to the Metea Valley High School Marching Mustangs marching band parent preview. We met with the marching band director and found out about all of the schedule for this season, including more details about the Disney World trip during spring break. We then got
Even though we had a birthday party as a family when Zach turned 5 on July 5th, he still wanted a friend birthday party, and today was the soonest we could do it. Angela worked really hard to pull it together. The theme? Spalsh Bash! Zach invited 11 friends over for a backyard water party.
Today was quite the busy day! While the kids were having fun at home, I was having fun at work. I went to a seminar from LanDesk this morning (about workstation patching and software license management) at a movie theater in Rosement that was supposed to be a casino. It’s an incredible theater! The presentation
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
During the past two days, I participated in session #5 of the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) I have been attending all this year. As usual, the agenda and activites were phenominal. It was a little lighter for me because this time, I didn’t have to present on any books like the last session we had.
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
