School Time Again

The first day of school this year was Aug 7, 2012. I swear it feels like we start school earlier and earlier every year!

 

It will be a sad day when I can't take these pictures anymore.

I just had to take a picture of Aubrey loaded down with her school gear. The lunch, flute, and whatever else in front is actually used as a counter-weight for her backpack (which is still about 100 lbs heavier than everything else).

This is a picture of Aubrey with her fellow senior flute players. It's going to be a sad day (for the band) when these girls graduate!

Breck and his fellow saxophone players. This was the first football game of the season. Because of the heat, the kids didn't have to wear their regular band uniforms.

Aubrey is marching back and center.

In this particular song, the flutes got to dance. I thought it was great idea, and Aubrey looks as though she is actually having a good time.

This is a picture of the entire band at the Fall Concert, which takes place in Lexington at the Symphony Hall on UK campus every year, because there are too many students to fit in our high school auditorium. This year the Fall concert also included the entire Scott County High School choir as well.

Aubrey is sitting on the far right close to the stage, and Breck is sitting back center.

  The band has a pretty amazing drum-line.

Breck made it in the top band this year (with Aubrey) and is playing the both the baritone and alto saxophones. 

Aubrey is sitting next to her good friend McKenzie (who is playing the piccolo).

The girls have a good time in band together.

I especially love this picture which another parent took which her zoom lens at just the right moment.

This is a picture of the whole choir. The kids in red dispersed throughout the choir are the kids that are in both band and choir. Aubrey is one of those kids, and it makes for a pretty busy schedule!

Here is a close-up of Aubrey in the same picture. This year's theme was a patriotic one, and it just gave me goosebumps when the choir was singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the band accompanying them.

  I love this picture of all the band and choir directors holding hands to take a bow. It always amazes me how well the directors of our huge band and huge choir get along, and work together and around each other's schedules. What a great example they are to the students of what it means to work together for the betterment of the school instead of just focusing on their auxiliaries' own selfish goals and desires. To me, the band and choir are the glue that holds the student body together!

Since Brad was out of the country during the concert, with our extra ticket Aubrey invited Truett (the girl's piano teacher and used to be neighbor) to watch the concert. 

Every year we get a few more kids from our church ward participating in the high school band and choirs. Currently, Aubrey is the only one in both band and choir.

The kids all get along so well, and have a good time together.

I love this picture, especially of Lacy (in the middle with the great expression on her face). You would have to know quiet, docile Lacy to appreciate it.

Again, showing their true personalities.

Breck and Aubrey with our good friends' Christina and Wesley Holt.

They all could be siblings (meow).

Here, everyone from the ward is enjoying visiting with one another.

Our Bishop and his daughter Joy. It's a great picture but would of been better had I not cut off the Bishop's head!

Breck is trying to look like Mr. Cool.

Ahhh, that's better. The case the kids are holding is Breck's alto saxophone, and the case they are sitting on is Breck's baritone saxophone (the "bari sax" is pretty huge).

And these are our future band and choir members.