Busy time with the family!

Another weekend of band competition is upon us! Yes...it is a great time for our family to do this together. To share this experience together. To win and lose together. We all put time in, kids more than us, but we all have something to talk about at the dinner table too. We all will be traveling to Wando (charleston) this weekend for Competition. We are expected to do well at this competition. We have never scored in the 90's before this year...so with the detail cleaning we are doing now it should even be better. I say that, and then you have different judges with different opinons. You have to take those and work with your band with those opinons and get back tot he field and work some more. These competitions boil down to one thing....STATE!
On Nov 1 we see who is the best band in the STATE. Yes we have never had those bragging rights and want them as badly as the next band. It's hard when you have MEGA bands with 200+ kids. We still believe we can do it and somehow we will, as long as we do better than last year (9th place- didn't go to finals) our job is done.
Our new band director is amazing! He has made Rebecca want to be better and want to practice. He offered her his wooden clairanet to practice on and hand picked her and 3 others to go to Winthorop College to do a Regional Clinic. She is excited to go. This is the first year DF has sent anyone to this clinic. You still have to audition, but only out of a select few do you get to go.

Interim reports came out this week. I am so proud of William. He has gotten 4- A's and 2 B's. Yes. I don't have to prod him to much about doing his homework - this is good. He is learning with being with the HS band that you have use your time management skills or he will end up sleepting trying to do his homework. So band is teaching him great skills.
Rebecca interms look like they always do. A's across the board. Yeah. She is striving for top 10 this year. She wants to have a full ride...this is why she is taking so many AP classes. Those classes has gotten to her this week. Lots of Lab reports and papers to write and not alot of Rebecca time other than band. She purchased her own Letterman jacket this week. She earned the letter 2 years ago and wanted a jacket to put it on. She wanted it so bad she paid for it herself. She wants to go back to work after band season...she has a thanksgiving and Christmas job lined up at Honey baked Ham but will be looking for a weekend job.
We are still looking for renters...please let us know if you know of anyone! Payments are killing us!!
Love you all--