What a Week, oh what a week!

What a Week, oh what a week!

Rise and Shout the Cougars are out!

We were so excited this week to get Marisa’s acceptance to BYU-Provo! We are all so ecstatic!! She is a 4^th generation cougar and we are just thrilled. Congrats to Marisa on all the hard work and effort that it took to get there.

Senior Solo

Marisa had her senior solo this week. She looked so beautiful up there and was absolutely brilliant. She did a beautiful piece from Beethoven. I, of course, cried through the whole thing. She is so talented. Bob will be posting the video and for fun we thought we would post her very 1^st time playing as well for a comparison. (You’re welcome Marisa!)

She also played in the Winter Orchestra concert and, as always, did an amazing job.

Solo/ensemble Festival

Tyler did a solo at the band festival this week. He did a wonderful job! We don’t have his results yet but I bet he scored well.

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. ~Jim Gaffigan

We had a wonderful Valentines Day! Bob bought me beautiful roses and we got a heart shaped pizza. For the 1^st time ever I tried Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I thought they turned out great! Although I must admit I, um, cheated a little. I was going to make them completely from scratch but I saw that Marisa picked up red velvet cake mix from Hyvee, so I used that instead.

Blecky germs

Alayna got sick Sunday night and started running a fever. I stayed home with her and Kayla on Monday and then her and Tyler on Tuesday. For me, it was nice to have 2 days off. I had some sort of flu thing so I had to relax which I really needed. We are all better now.

Spring cleaning

I do realize its February and actually nowhere near spring, but I have had this drive to start my spring cleaning anyway.

So, one day I realized, “You know, that wall paper trim in the girls bathroom has been yellowing and peeling off the wall, I should take that down.” Before I knew it, I had gone all postal and I was on the sink covered in wall paper and glue thinking I REALLY should have waited until summer. I ended up ripping some of the paint off and made a mess of things. Tyler and Alayna repainted it off-white today and I will be decorating it. I can’t wait for you all to see the final project.

Domestic News

I am thrilled with my “trying” new things.

I tried a homemade calzone Stromboli thingy for dinner last night. My 1^st one looked like I had hacked a dead body and it was bleeding with bones protruding through it. I pulled it out of the oven and the kids gasped in horror. But when they tasted it, they said it was awesome. So, I win. My 2^nd one turned out better although when I finally moved it onto the tray it looked more like that creature from tremors than a calzone, but again, it tasted awesome. More details will be on the other blog.