Fundraiser

Tonight is my first official fundraiser for Evans Jr. High School Orchestras.  If you are in the Bloomington-Normal area click on this link, print the flyer and head on out to Monical's tonight for dinner.  Hey, if nothing else it is a good excuse to not cook right?

http://www.monicalspizza.com/assets/eventdocument/EJHSOrchestra101811.pdf

New School; First Concert

Just an FYI (in case you care) my new school George L. Evans Jr. High School will have its first EVER concert on Tuesday night, October 11th, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the gym.  The concert will feature Evans 7th & 8th grade musicians (band, orchestra and choir.)  The grand finale will be the premiere of the school song (written by my colleague Josh Masterman, lyrics by none other than ME!)  There will be a light reception following the concert in the cafeteria.

New "toy"

So for those of you who didn't hear Chad and I had really had it with Sprint and made the jump to switch cell phone providers, for only a few more dollars a month we were able to COMPLETELY increase our package and going from dumb old phones to shiny new smart phones.  Well, only 2 weeks after getting our lovely new droids Chad decided to take a swim with his at Fairview Pool (nice huh?)  Thank God for insurance so for a deductible (totally not free) we were able to replace it (but still cheaper than buying a new phone.)  Anyway, Chad's new toy takes some GREAT pictures with fun views, exposures, etc.  Here is a cute one of the boys on the playground!

9/11 Memorial

I shared this with my students today in class, it is an audio recording of YoYo Ma playing the Bach Sarabande from the 1st suite.  The visual is of Obama at the memorial now set up at ground zero.  If you close your eyes and listen you can hear the water from the memorial.  I just found this very moving.
911 Memorial

My 1st Grader

Thought I better get this up for you all before he is in 2nd grade!  Here is our big kid, 1st grade.  The year is starting out great for him, he has Mrs. Williams as his teacher.  You can check out their class blog over here at http://www.mrswilliamsfirstgradeclass.blogspot.com/ We feel very lucky that Killian continues to REALLY enjoy school and looks forward to it every day.  So far the highlights have been an increased desire and skill set with reading and two perfect score spelling tests!

What a week....

Or two or three or month or two months.....  Sorry I have been a deadbeat blogger.  Life has been hard, very hard, frustrating, exhausting, overwhelming......I have not been myself, I am sorry that I haven't shared any antics lately.  Will you forgive me?

Backwards blog?

What do you think? Should I backwards blog??? This summer has been WAY stressful and WAY TO busy... I HOPE that the feeling of stress and exhaustion is over. So... here are couple pics of my little cuties after the Sugar Creek Arts Fest:)