A week ago, I went with Bryn to a meeting for her summer mission trip. There's lots of fundraising and coordinating to do before July. This year Bryn's group is going to Coahoma, Mississippi – a bit farther than Cairo, Illinois where they helped out last summer. At the meeting, Bryn presented her committee's t-shirt design for this year's theme "Move." Cool, huh? They'll be printed up soon, as the church likes the mission trippers to wear them whenever they do their fundraising. They're going to try a bike ride in June instead of sponsoring the kids bowling as in previous years. I'm sure many of you will know all about it when Bryn's looking for contributions.
Paige had her first Band Concert for the year last Wednesday and it was great. She was even featured in a smaller Woodwind Ensemble. Paige is currently 6th chair out of 18 clarinets in her 7th grade band. Her lesson teacher says Paige is adapting well playing with her braces.
Bryn sat down to supper Wednesday night and announced, "I have some news." That gets a parent's attention! Bryn asked a boy to the Turnabout Dance that'll be Feb. 9th. Good for Bryn. I like her confidence. (Oh! The boy, Tyler, said yes.) Bryn apparently got his locker combo from his brother and put a sign in his locker with the big question. Abby got really excited "We can go dress shopping together!" Abby asked her boyfriend on Friday. I teased her that Alex was probably worried and insecure why she hadn't asked yet. I don't have the details, but I know it involves a Packer fleece blanket she made him and a stuffed giraffe. Difficult to put that together...
Jeff and I have been delivering Christmas presents late to the girls this year. We upgraded our little iMac in the kitchen and moved it into the dining room for a little more privacy (but not TOO much!) and less interruption. The girls love it because it has a camera in it and it's fast. I love it because it has some really intuitive parental controls and the new operating system - Leopard. It's so pretty. It was delivered to Jeff's work Friday within minutes of carrying the box into the house, the girls were pressuring us to have it up and running. Lucky it was easy to set up. I've had a lot of fun starting from scratch and trying to keep things set up right so it stays organized. And today we signed the family back up for membership at the Y as another Christmas present. Bryn wants to keep training for track and Abby says she'll go with!
Jeff's company, Ring & DuChateau, held their holiday party Friday night at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Fancy. It really is a beautiful setting in that atrium. The food was delicious! We roamed from the mashed potato martini station to the crab cake station, to the chateau briand station and of course, the dessert station. Each station had the one main entree along with a variety of sauces/salsas to accompany it. Yummy! We were also welcome to view the current touring exhibit which was a little disturbing (all works were completed in a mental institution), but the drawings were very detailed and intriguing.
My company party was scheduled for the next evening, but needless to say, had to be postponed due to the Packer playoff game. My boss John is not a Packer fan so he was disappointed to have to reschedule, but that game was worth it! The beginning made us all kind of nervous, but it was just so picture-perfect with the snow coming down in Lambeau Field and the Packers just doing their thing. Since our plans had changed, we decided to make a social event of the Packer game and invite a few people. I put out way too much food. I felt bad for Abby's boyfriend, Alex, who really wanted to watch the game but the rest of the kids in the basement preferred playing Guitar Hero or badly karoake-ing to the boombox, so Alex came up and watched with us parents for a few plays.
The Girl Scout cookie sale is on and this is Abby's last year selling. I put a link at the right so you can view the varieties offered this year. They're $3.50/box. Abby will contact you for orders.
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