Happy Mother's Day

Sam didn't make it home but he called!  :)

 

Guess Where I was

When the new pope was announced?  Sitting on the floor of my empty classroom organizing spelling cards.  That tracks for me.

Prayers for Pope Leo the 14th!

Athletics Awards Night

 The athletic department has dropped the banquet part of the night and just hands out awards.  It's fine, it shaves off an hour of time!

Philip didn't really want to go but I thought we should so we went.  He was right.  We could have skipped.  It's mostly fun for seniors because the coaches say nice things.  Well, wrestling is small enough Coach says nice things about all of them.

He lettered in Football, Wrestling and Track.  Great work Philip.  Looks like we have another three sport athlete, we'll see if he does all three all four years.

Since Philip was there under slight protest and I regretted making us come, we seem not to have taken any pictures...

I'll just throw on of him in here...

Vocal Concert

Julia sang with the Madrigals

and show choir...which are the same kids just doing different things.  

She loved being in the choirs this year and loves being a soprano, which is beyond this alto mom.

Here she is with Sofia.  It was a great year of sining.

Percy Jackson

Julia was thrilled to be cast as Annabeth in Percy Jackson for the spring play!  She has loved the Percy Jackson series for a long time.  I also love the series but we both thought the script left something to be desired compared to the books but such is life.

Percy finds out his dad is Poseidon, which makes him a half blood (half Greek god in modern times, half regular human), trouble ensues.

Annabeth is also a half blood who knows way more about the whole situation than Percy.  She's tough so Julia and Michaela had to manage not to laugh at each other, although I did catch Julia sticking out her tongue on closing night.

She convinced the boys to let her go on the "killer" quest.  Good thing or they wouldn't have made it.

It rained on part of the quest...

She sang a nice solo explaining her "grand plan."

More questing.  The traveling was most of what we saw.  The battles during the quest were minimal.  Dumb script writer.

After various obstacles, some arguing and finally stage fighting, they saved the day!  Yay! 

This picture is not that part turns out.  It's Julia's favorite line:  Percy is mad because he figured out Annabeth set him up to either get clobbered by Clarise or be hidden away in an unimportant place during capture the flag.  "Works either way!" smirks Annabeth.

Bravo!  Great job Julia!

Apparently we didn't take very many after the show pictures this year.
 

Performances

Julia had a great time in speech this year.  She preformed a serious prose and an OID (oral interpretation of drama.)  She likes the dark stuff.  I went a couple times and it was good, but I didn't really want to see either speeches over and over.  Sorry Julia but great work! 

Philip performed in a brass ensemble for district music contest.  They got a 1!

Julia performed a flute solo that got a 1 (She played a song I played once upon a time- Tambourin), the flute section performed a piece that received a 1 as well.  Julia and her long time flutie friend Isabelle performed a duet that got a 1 and a honorable mention.  That means they get a picture on Neumann's Fine Arts Wall of fame.  Nice job girls!

Julia sang too!  A duet that got a 2 and a quartet that got a "stupid, stinkin' 3".  She's spoiled with all the 1s she's gotten in her life.  My band once got a 4, she'll survive.  I did in fact take pictures at the recital night but I took them with the little button while I was video taping and now the computer thinks they are all movies so use your imagination!!

The new football coach had his meet and greet during the recital.  (Brother of my least favorite coach to date- and I've experienced 6 football coaches over eight years.  I'm trying not to hold it against the new Pavlik.) We found out via Facebook by chance the day before.  The recital had been planned for weeks and I was told about it directly.  We skipped the meet and greet.  Well, Philip went over after his performance.  And then Philip lost the papers that told us about summer schedules and expectations that he got there.  Ug.

 

Happy Easter!

The vigil was beautiful as always.  Sam was at Newman's since he's a sacristan there so there was lots to do during Holy Week!

We ditched the Easter Egg hunt this year.  Everyone knows.  So I just hid their special item and then put the candy directly in the baskets on the table.

We had the traditional lamb rolls which are insisting on showing up turned sideways.

and birthday/retirement cake for Grandpa.

We celebrated with my mom and dad for dinner too.  But I guess no pictures there!