Six Yellow School Busses

200 Instruments

One Awesome Band!!!

Dan and I rode the bus for the 6th year to Lincoln, Nebraska, for the State Fair. The kids get about 90 minutes of free time and then they march once or twice. Today, they were the lead off band for the start of the parade. The group just kept coming and coming and coming!!! Between the flag corps, the drum majors, and the rows and rows of instruments, the band took up the whole street. It was quite impressive.

I am starting to sound like we are band nerds. We aren’t. My son never even practices.
But we like to be involved with our children’s lives and marching band is what we do in the fall!

SOME people call it the first football game of the season.
WE call it the first Marching Band night of the season!!!
Matt played the largest bass drum tonight. I took 87 pictures.
Really, I did!

It’s not that I don’t like ironing.
I watch a good tv show when I iron.
I like the way my family looks in ironed clothes.

I just wish I’d do it more often!!!!

I wish she liked me better.
I wish we could shop together.
I wish she wanted to come home and spend time with me.
I wish we could "do lunch".

But I’ll just wait. And hope.
Hope that it will all go all right.
Hope that the path she chooses will take her in the right direction.
Hope that she realizes that we love her.
More than she will ever know.

And I’m thankful she’s returning to college.
And she wants to try again. Try harder.
And she has a job she likes.
And she’s made some friends.

I don’t understand why it is this way.
But I will wait.
I will always be here.

It was Grandma Nina’s birthday yesterday. Lynnette’s is today.

We had a little party at our house last night. Having a party is alot of work, but it is sooo fun. I made potato salad, burgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, cake, grilled veggies and beans. Now, the day after, we have some leftover food and my house is pretty clean.

Having a party gives me a deadline to get the house cleaned up a little!

Happy birthday Nina.
Happy birthday Lynnette!