Pop festival recital 2010

Today was Allie's first recital of the year and of course she did awesome! She has really developed a passion for music within the last six months or so and it is really starting to show. She actually ASKS to practice a couple times a day! What a blessing!!! She is teaching herself songs that aren't assigned (along with the ones Mrs. Yost chooses for her) and passing them the next week!! She's amazing! She's also playing trumpet in band at the middle school and seems to be picking that up quickly too! I don't know if a new trumpet is on the list for Christmas this year...might be. We shall see!










Not sure when my baby girl grew up but it's pretty evident here that she has. My oh my how beautiful she is. We are so proud of her and so blessed that God has entrusted her to us. Hope we don't screw her up too bad!

First Piano recital!!!

Just got the info on Allie's first piano recital!!! Luke and Grace are too new to participate in this particular event, but their time will come!!! Our little Allison has become QUITE the musician if I do say so myself....annnnnd....I do. :D

NEWSPAPER RELEASE

TO: The Creswell Chronicle

Helen Hollyer & Gini Davis

FROM: Mary Ellen Yost

EVENT: Popular Music Festival

WHO: Area Music Students

SPONSORED BY: Oregon Music Teachers’ Association (OMTA)

PLACE: United Lutheran Church

2230 Washington Street, Eugene

DATE: Sunday Afternoon, October 24, 2010

CRESWELL PERFORMERS: (Students of Mary Ellen Yost)

Teresa Padilla Amador, 3^rd Grade, Home School

Daughter of Silvia Amador & Arnoldo Padilla

Delaney Pietsch, 6^th grade, CMS

Daughter of Therese Brubaker & Chris Pietsch

Allison Bagenski, Creslane 6th grade, CMS

Daughter of Becky & Mark Bagenski

Lauren Heater, Creslane 6th grade, CMS

Daughter of Kathy & Ron Heater

Olivia Powell, 8^th grade, CMS

Daughter of Holly & Larry Powell

Lindsey Quigley, 9^th grade, CHS

Daughter of Laurie & Dave Quigley

Jennifer Fincher-Beard, 11^th grade, CHS

Daughter of Marcia & Kyle Beard

The above Creswell piano students will perform at the OMTA Popular Music Festival which features music of movies, television, jazz, and music of 21^st century composers.

Performing on the 1:00 PM Festival Recital will be: Teresa Padilla Amador,

Delaney Pietsch, and Lindsey Quigley.

Perform on the 2:15 PM Festival Recital will be: Allison Bagenski, Lauren Heater,

Jennifer Fincher-Beard and Olivia Powell.

The Popular Music Festival will be an afternoon of easy listening and enjoyable music featuring Creswell students as well as students from the Eugene-Springfield area.

The public is invited and the festival recitals are free.

My little soccer players

The first game day for Luke and Grace was tons of fun. Their games were in adjoining fields which made it easier for us old folk! Thank goodness! They both had a great time and did very well!
Allie had her first "All nighter" party with Campus Life the night before and I only let her sleep 3 hours before dragging her to the games! HA! You play you pay, Sister!
She was compliant...not HAPPY, but compliant! :D
Gooooo Thunderballs!!!!
Goooooo Spiders!!!! (And Lukey has the ball! Woot!)
Soccer is a tiring game! Lots of water breaks!

Luke got traded for a bit to the other team. They had him come over and then put him on the sideline. We were like.....um....what?
Allie's friend Mystika was at the game too...ALSO at the all nighter...ALSO on very little sleep! HA! I love meeting mean moms like myself!!!
Nana really gets into the game.
Daddy couldn't stand it...when Luke was goalie he had to go stand next to him and give tips.

Gracie was all up in that mess!! She loves it!
The All Stars! Ok...maybe not...but to me they are!
Annnnnd Daddy continued the tips all the way to the car.
Nana just snuggled.
Only a few more games. Soccer is fast this young! Only 5 weeks long. Next on the agenda I believe is ballet for them both. Luke wants to go back and Grace has been begging ever since Luke did it a couple years ago!!!

My Molly Girl

Is pregnant. Poor baby has been super moody for well over a month. We thought she MIGHT be pregnant as she and my bestie's dog Walter (a shih tzu) got busy a few times while I was in Hawaii. But ya know...it was the first time she'd ever mated, he's young, we weren't entirely sure they were even doing it right! LOL!!!! A week ago I was petting her and thought, nah...she would be fatter by now, it would be more obvious by now, she can't be.

Then 4 days ago...like literally over night...she got fat! Yesterday she was unable to jump up on our bed! Poor thing!! Then, like an idiot, I GOOGLED Papillion births. Word to the wise...NEVER EVER GOOGLE ANYTHING MEDICAL! I'm totally freaked out now. Papillions are hard to breed, they notoriously have narrow pelvises and puppies get stuck, go breach....just a multitude of issues. I'm freaking out. I've never been so in love with a dog like I am my Molly. She has the most loving personality of any dog I've ever had...I would be heartbroken if anything happened to her. So I'm gonna take some of my hard earned paycheck and take my baby to the vet next week. I want the doctor to either ease my mind and let me know that it will be ok....or plan a c-section.

So hopefully in a few weeks we will have pics of beautiful new Papi-tzus to post for y'all!! :) Maybe something like this......