Not much going on these days... Josh keeps us pretty busy with all his band practices, games and competitions! Congratulations to the Aledo High School Bearcat Regiment for placing in the Bands of America competition

Best in Class 2A
Outstanding Music
Outstanding Marching
Outstanding General Effect
Division One Rating

They have placed 2nd in the Regionals of UIL and they have Area competition on Saturday, 10/24 IF they place there then it's off to the State competition... For more information on the UIL:Music check out this link... UIL_Music

The Bearcat Regiment have been State finalists mutliple times before - so keep them in your prayers that they can repeat. State happens every 2 years so the next opportunity for Josh would be his JR year... they truly are incredible - they even have videos posted on youtube, check them out Bearcat_Regiment ... they have a very cool performance - the theme this year is "The Storm is Coming" .... so look for the video clips that are dated 2009 or have "RAIN" in the title.

Well better get this posted :) Hope everyone is having a great week!

Oh I am sooo bad on keeping this updated - but Josh has been keeping us busy with band - he has practice EVERY day of the week... Mondays 5-7pm; Tuesday - Friday 7am - 8:20am oh yeah and don't forget Tuesday evenings 4:30pm - 5:30pm! Then he has football games on Friday nights and in October has a marching competition EVERY Saturday... and so my Friday nights are either at the home games or waiting til nearly midnight to pick him up from away games!

Go Bearcats!

And for those of you not on Facebook - here is our handsome Joshua in his Aledo HS band uniform....

(In the stands) (Marching into the field pre-game)

Well I guess I better get this posted but to update on everything, horses are good, goats are good now (after their pit bull attack) and of course the Shafer Zoo (Duke, Storme, Piper and Norton) are doing well - oh yeah, Stormie turned 7 on Josh's birthday

Hope everyone is doing well! Will try to remember to post more pics of Josh as I get them :)