High School Musical

April 17-19 were the three showings of this years musical, Disney's High School Musical, at VCS. We went to the first showing Thursday night and absolutely loved it. The students put a tremendous amount of effort and spent a lot of time working on this musical. Their hard work definitely paid off, the show was amazing! They kept the crowd chuckling through the entire performance. As usual, we were amazed at the talents of the students at VCS. Anyways, enjoy a few pictures! Everyone involved in High School Musical

Student Actors

Directors
Musical Band

The Lead Roles
The Basketball Team

Relaxing...

I have been wanting to take a picture of Gideon chilling out on our living room carpet for quite some time, and I finally got one. It cracks us up that he lays like this--and its no unnusual thing. He lays like this quite often! You might think he wants you to pet his belly when he lays like this, but trust me, he doesn't!

Chapel--and--Spring!

Today in elementary chapel my lesson was on Samson and Delilah and how we need to make the wise choice. To start off my lesson, we had a muscle contest. Each class had time to pick the strongest person in their class, and send that person up front. A winner was picked from this group based on the best muscle position and face. It was hilarious to watch them show off their muscles...some were posing so hard their whole body was shaking! I wish I would of had my camera! I could have some priceless pictures!

On a different note, spring has returned to Vienna after a week of cold and windy weather. I am so excited! I love all four seasons, and any season change is super exciting to me. However, there are so many things I love about spring...my favorite flowers are tulips, and they are one of the first signs of spring! One of my most favorite things are all of the new life in God's creation, which reminds me of the miraculous new life I have in Christ.

A Good Weekend

Although we have been dealing with some heavy issues over the past week, we surprisingly had a great weekend! Beautiful spring weather definitely helps!

Friday night was a coffee house at the school. This is a really laid back and casual event in which we try to encourage our students to reach out to their non-VCS friends. Of course we have coffee and other hot drinks, a few snacks, and always entertainment. This past coffee house was "Open Mic Night." This is one of our favorite events because it allows are amazing talented students a chance to share their talent. We really enjoyed the night, hanging out with students and being able to listen to their talents!

Saturday was the day of our first "date" in months. It is hard to go out on dates when you don't have extra money. Needless to say, I (Stephanie) was stoked! One of my favorite foods is Mexican and I don't get it very often here, and when I do, its nothing like Dallas! However, this year a burrito place similar to Chipotle opened up here in Vienna. It is one of my favorite places to eat! So we headed downtown to the burrito place for an early dinner, which was a massive burrito and a Dr. Pepper--two things I rarely get--it was perfect. Then we leisurely strolled through downtown to Vienna, to another one of my favorites-Fratelli's Eis (ice cream). All I need to say about that is--Yum! We finished off our night by going to see a movie. I have decided that not being able to go on dates every month is kind of a blessing, because it makes the rare nights we are able to go on a date, even more perfect!

Saturday night Matt stayed up to watch the final four games. At 5:30 am I was waking up from a night's sleep and Matt was just getting ready to go to sleep. I definitely didn't mind going back to sleep! So the Jayhawks made it to the championship game--Rock Chalk Jayhawks!

I am sure tonight we will be getting up in the middle of the night to watch the championship game!

Anyways, Sunday since Matt was basically up all night, we did our own church. Our church in Dallas, The Branch, has videos of the sermons online, so we watched their Easter sermon. Then we went for a walk to talk and pray about all that is going on in our lives. Sunday night we headed to a birthday party.

Today (Monday) is a work day (its the end of 3rd quarter) for us teachers to get our grades done. I have finished my grades and have been working on lesson plans and writing worksheets and whatnot for the rest of April. I needed a break, so I decided to update the blog!

Well, its back to work! We hope you have a fabulous week!

P.S.--A HUGE shout out to Fabulous K Blog Designs for our spiffy new header!! Thanks Fabulous K!

Center Stage: Senior Event

Last Friday we had our second senior event in effort to raise more funds for our senior trip. This event included some raffles, a dessert bar, the senior store (drinks and candy), and a talent show. We had around 170 people there, and it was a packed house! We had 20 acts, and they were all amazing. The best part is, we made the amount of money we were shooting for!! It really turned out to be a great event. Here are a few pics below of the talent show. Kelly was one of our favorite acts, she hand painted an eagle (above), and did a charcoal drawing of Jesus (below) to music, so she was on a time limit. Afterwards, she gave a touching talk about using your gifts for God. It is so neat to see how she has grown. DK "dressed up" like Tiger Woods and did some sweet tricks bouncing a ball on his golf club.

The picture below is of a group of our middle school Korean girls who did a dance to "Shout to the Lord" in Korean. I was impressed with their moves!

This is one of our sixth grade students Ralph, and he has only been at VCS a few weeks. Yet he was brave enough to get up in front of a crowd and sing his heart out! He sang "I Believe I can Fly" and he totally owned the crowd! He ended up getting second place!

This is the winning group, the 6th grade girls who did a cute skit. The skit was about being loved just the way we are. The prize was a gift certificate to the senior store!

Finally, this is a picture of our three "celebrity" judges. From left to right is Matt, Ms. Helm (first grade teacher), and Mr. Stockett (business manager). They did a great job!