Brenden's last Band Banquet

Friday was Brenden's final Band Banquet.  It was very nice they had a dinner for everyone with pasta, chicken, etc.  Then it was on to the Senior Wills will was really funny the Seniors will things they have used or bought to the underclassmen.  It is always funny to see what they give away.  They gave away 3 awards.  The first was given to Brenden's roomate Will.. then there were two national awards the Louis Armstrong and the Sousa Award and to our surprise they were both given to Brenden!  We were so excited for him because these are usually not given to the same person.  After the awards were given it was time for the photo videos.. first it was photos of the year and then it was senior time.. each senior got a song that represented them and then a few pictures of them growing up along with a senior photo.

It was a great banquet.. and we just couldn't be happier and prouder of our Senior!

Class of 2011!

2010-2011 Drum Majors

Getting his awards..

Senior Awards Night

Tonight was Senior Awards Night.  The top 15% was invited to come.  They had groups come with their scholarships and awarded them to the Seniors.   Brenden came up a few times which was great for us!

First scholarship was for Band..

Next was for UIL

The came a Fine Arts one

Finally he got the Cynthia Woods one

 Then it came time for the to announce what all the kids got from the schools they will be going to I didn't get a great picture of that.. Finally it was time to get his cords.. he is 13th in his class!  So he is Magna Cum Laude.. We are so proud of him!

Brenden and Tim.. look Tim has a Sam shirt on.. never dreamed I would see that him being from SFA!!!

Tim wanted us all to be wearing our Sam shirts to support Brenden..

Hard to believe he will be graduating a week from tomorrow! 

Last Willis Band Concert

Tuesday night was our last Willis Band Concert.. can you believe!  It was a great concert with lots of great music!  Brenden first performed in the Jazz band.  He had a couple of solos and did great!

The middle schools have both started Jazz bands so they brought them out to play with the high school band.

Brenden also played in the last band and this is their highest band they played well also.  One special moment was when Ms. Marquart came out.  Every year during the spaghetti supper they auction off a chance to direct the band at the last concert.  This year the Seniors wanted to bring back their beloved Ms. Marquart she was their band director before this year.  So the Seniors had part of the money and Tim and I threw in the rest of the money to make it happen.  Ms. Marquart chose this beautiful 

patriotic song that had a part for speaking, this was done by their current teacher Mr. Allen.  It was beautiful and a great way to end four great years of music by the Willis Band.

 

 

Our Senior

Well as you can see from our new background we are in the graduation spirit these days.  Our big boy will be graduating in 22 days.  He is ready to get it over and get ready for the next step in his life.  This summer we decided to go a head and get Senior pictures out of the way so we took him up to Grapeland which is where he lived as a little boy and where he was when I met him 12 yrs ago.  We thought it would be nice to do for his mom and to just go back to where he started school at.

and my favorite..

We also took some pictures at a friends house in Elkhart which is the town right next to Grapeland.  She actually helped with the Grapeland photos too..

A few weeks later I met him and his mom in Willis and we did some pictures around Willis.

We a billion more pictures and I think we got some really good ones of him. 

Pirates vs Astros

Here are a few pictures from the past game.  Zach did really good he first hit the ball on the dugout then over the 1st and 2nd baseman's head.. Then he also tried to get a boy out at home plate but they ended up calling the other boy safe.. oh well maybe next time!

(Zach is #3)

Sunday Afternoon surprise

We got a surprise this afternoon when Uncle Thomas and Carlie came to see us.  Uncle Thomas wanted Tim to help him with his breaks on his truck.  While they were working on the truck the kids played the Wii and then went outside and played on the trapoline.  They had a blast!

Aren't they cute!