Spring Show

Katie was involved in the East Sac Dance Corps' Spring Show on Saturday night. She did a great job and had a lot of fun.

Solo contest

Tasha competed in the middle school band solo contest on Friday night. Grandma & Grandpa Stewart, Grandma & Grandpa Bettin, Todd, Katie and I all went to hear her play.  She was so nervous but did an awesome job, and she received a I+ for her performance.

Katie's horse

Since Katelyn had her accident with the horse and broke her arm, she has not been back on a horse. Al, our farrier, has been on the look-out for the perfect horse for Katelyn. He found it! Sugar is a 12 year old red roan that is just broke to death. She is a people lover and has had lots of time put on her in training. Katie loves to go to the clinic and pet, groom, and feed her. Katie even got on her in the round pen at the clinic when Al came and saddled her up and went for a ride to see what she could do.

Eagles

These are a couple of juvenile eagles.

The bald eagles are migrating through with the rest of the migrating birds. The last couple of years we have had a resident bird or two around here, but the other day both of our dad's, Larry and Chuck, said that they saw a dozen or more sitting on the muskrats huts over on Tomahawk Marsh. Tasha and I took the camera the next day to school, but only got a picture of a couple of them.

Faces of Volleyball

This weekend we went to Bellevue down by Omaha to a volleyball tournament for Tasha. Mom and Dad Stewart, Janine and Sarah came over to the school to watch Tasha and her team play. Sarah brought her camera along and took some great pictures. Tasha and I were looking through them and noticed she (and others) had MANY different expressions through out the tournament. We couldn't help but add some captions.

"Let me at um!!"

"I can't believe she just did that"

The Thinker!

The Spacer

"Is it gonna make it?"

"Really??????? Shut up"

"Let's go"

"Did you get that?"

"Get it, Get it, Get it!!!"

"Here it comes"

"I'm Ready"

"Kylie?? Do you have it?"

"I am so mad" "You? I can't even look at you guys"

Here are some other pictures from the day as well. The girls did well today and took home 2nd place.

Thanks Janine and Pat for letting Tasha, me, Marni and Callie stay at your place and to Sarah and Kurt for letting Mom and Dad stay there. Thanks also for the great supper last night and for the cinnamon rolls and coffee this morning. It was great!!

Sickness

WOW.....sickness has hit our community, schools, and house hard!! We have been fighting influenza, strep, stomach flu, and everything in between in the community and schools for the last month. Two weeks ago Katelyn had influenza and this week both Tasha and Katie were home with either influenza or strep. All tests came back negative, but the doctor said he was sure that they had one or the other. Hope your family is staying healthy!

Parade of Bands

Last Monday night, Natasha was involved in the Parade of Bands concert in Lake View. This concert includes 5th - HS bands, both the large group and the jazz bands. Tasha's 7th/8th jazz band performed first. They did a great job. Tasha even had a solo. Callie (Tasha's best friend) played both the piano and the tenor sax.

After the 5th and 6th grades, then the 7th/8th performed. I thought that the last song they did (a western themed song) was the best. Due to sickness, they were short a few players. One of them that was sick was a drummer. Because of that, Callie was recruited to play the bass drum for one song. She learned the part that morning and did a great job!!!