Through My Eyes

How did we pull that off?

2012-01-28T22:16:00.000-08:00

I was watching some videos of the band from earlier this year and I came across the second football game we played at. Then all the memories started piling in.
It was the weekend of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, so earlier that week my band director and I had decided to have the band play "God Bless the U.S.A." during the pregame show. Fantastic idea except for the fact that 80% of the band had never seen that song in their life. So we had a week to learn it. Another cool thing that was happening was we were teaming up with the cheerleaders to do the popular song by Ke$ha called "We R Who We R" during half time.
I have a friend called mother nature. Her and I sometimes get along and sometimes don't. This time she decided to make it rain during the foot ball game. The skies were getting darker and darker as the day progressed and I had no clue if we would get this game in or not. So we went out and did pregame. it went OK. not as well as i would of liked, but my focus was halftime. One drop of the beat could get the cheerleaders off and it was all in my hands. To make it even more complicated it was decided to have me direct from the student section to get people more into it.
Well right when we would usually leave the stands and warm up in a circle before halftime, it started pouring down rain. So we went under the stands and practiced. I had no clue what was happening and if we were going to play or not, but i was prepared for anything to happen at this point. When we were done practicing, the rain had subsided and we went out there and played the first 2 movements of our field show, then got in our positions. Once we were all in our positions and i had gotten into the student section, my pal, mother nature struck us with rain pouring down again. But we still went on. I'll tell you, they played thier hearts out out there! The played the best they everplayed that song, IN THE RAIN. once we were done, we went into our huddle under the bleachers and I said that that was a "success for the books". That was one of those moments where I was proud to say that I'm the drum major of the Frankfort H.S. "Hot Dog" Marching Band! Here's the video of our performance.

So keep reaching for the stars and listen to the music of the night! Drum Major Out!

~FIN~

Friday the 13th weekend

2012-01-17T17:09:00.000-08:00

Well this weekend has been a very busy weekend for me. The band performed at the basketball games Friday and Saturday, and Ffortissimo Show Choir went to their first competition Saturday. What weekend did all this happen to fall on? Friday the 13th! Now, I'm not someone to be superstitious, but I had a small feeling that this weekend may not go well. I wasn't expecting something big to happen, but I was afraid that the band might not play as well as they could, or i might fall during the competition. Just little things like that made me fret. Though to my surprise, things went the opposite. The band played really good this weekend. I was especially amazed ,when I went in front of them Friday to direct, to hear how strong we sounded. We sounded pretty good saturday too, but we were tired and you could tell. Ffortissimo did good too, Saturday. We did not go on into the finals but we beat out another group to end up in 6th out of 7. That's a huge win for us because the choirs we went up against have been competing for 30 or so years now.
So, in-spite of this being the weekend of Friday the 13th, it actually ended up to being not so bad. Here are some pictures from the basketball game on Saturday.

So remember to keep reaching for the stars, and listen to the music of the night. Drum Major out!

~FIN~

"The Tragedy of Earl Casgrove"

2012-01-11T12:58:00.000-08:00

As you can tell from previous posts, and the fact that I have a blog, I love writing. Ever since 2nd grade I've had a thing for writing. Today I was just thinking about what might be my best writing I've ever done, and one that came to mind was the short play I wrote my freshman year. The play is called "The Tragedy of Earl Casgrove" It was an assignment for my freshman English class. We were in groups of 3-4 and had to write/ act out a play. There were 3 people in my group and I wrote the parts with them acting it out in my mind, but when I look back, there seems to be more of a personal connection with the characters.

Earl is what I might have ended up being if I hadn't met some people and did some things. He is a real "nerdy" teenager, who is attached to his cousin, and is what you might call a "mama's boy". Earl gets made fun of everyday because he really is an unsociable geek. Well, and peeing his pants in 7th grade didn't help him out either. If it weren't for Wendy, I don't see how Earl could survive High School... and may be he wont...

You can read the play here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h855izN7u7vGcv414SsOEwCrE7n6uo_Bou64wQi135M/edit
It's really not that long, maybe a 2min read, 2 scenes. So I encourage you to read it. I just read it again today and I haven't read it since that day we did the play, but it was really interesting to me. I also found it neat that a year later I noticed those connections. So anyways remember to keep reaching for the stars and to listen to the music of the night. Drum major, out!

~Fin~

"Old Scottish Melody"

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

At drum major camp last summer, there was something we all had to do called a "Lab Band". We all got split up into groups and in our groups we created a band. Everyone had to get up in front of the band and conduct a piece of music while being recorded. It was probably one of the scariest things of the whole week but it sure was a lot of fun. We had a choice of 2 pieces of music. I forgot the name of the one I originally picked but I remember thinking that it was a good idea to pick it becase it was in 2-4 time. 2-4 time is probably the easiest to conduct to. Apperently everyone else thought so too because everyone before me had conducted that song too, except for the person right before me. She picked the other choice and that was "Old Scottish Melody" (Auld Lang). It is in 4-4 time and most people know that song as the "New Years" Song, the "Let all acquaintance be forgot". The always play that right after the ball drops at midnight on New years eve/ day. Anyways, she conducted that song amazingly. I think everyone in that room was amazed by her. It was so good that it made me want to conduct the song, and thats what I did. I decided that right before I went up. So kinda as a New Years present, Im going to show you guys this video. Now as I said this was last min and I had not practiced it at all so it was very rough, but hey. I've come a long way.

So this year keep pointing toward the stars and listen to the music of the night.
Happy 2012- Drum Major out!
~FIN~

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T19:29:00.000-08:00

From our family to yours merry Christmas!

What a Great Family Weekend

2011-11-06T19:41:00.000-08:00

Well its Sunday night and the week end has come to a close im afraid. This weekend for mom and I has been kinda a "family weekend".
Friday night we watched Christmas with the Kranks together.

Then Saturday we had all intentions of cleaning all day but then andy came over with the kids and we went and saw grandpa and grandma. Once we got back (again with all intentions of cleaning) we watched the Grinch stole Christmas on tbs, then The Wizard of Oz came on, Then 17 Again came on. We didn't go to bed till 1:00 (2:00) in the morning.

Then today after church we went out with Matt alicia and De and Chris to Gma and Gpa's house for lunch. Once we got home, we again with all intentions of cleaning decided that we should go and takes some family pics outside. Here are a few:

After that I eventually did mow the front lawn and get my clothes down stars but really for the most part we've had a great family weekend.

So anyways keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Drum Major out!

~iZak

Time with the Buddies

2011-10-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

As I've mentioned before I'm in a very kool group called Best Buddies where you work with special needs students and do things with them and essentially become their buddy. Preston and I were fortunate to get buddies who were brothers and who are quite hilarious too! My buddy's name is kyle and he is the funniest person you will ever meet. I am glad that I chose him and I think we will have a good year! Preston's buddy's name is Matt and he is hilarious too.
Last week we took them to see The Lion King 3D. We all had a pretty good time. Sherrie (Preston's mom nicknamed them yawny and yawny jr. because they would not stop yawning the whole time! I think we were all ready for fall break.

Then yesterday (the last day of fall break) we had a bestbuddies group activity. We carved pumkins and had some snacks at matt and kyle's house. Preston and I got to meet their mom and she was really nice. Kyle wanted his pumkin to say JOKER because of the batman series. And of course he had to pick the Largest pumkin that had the most gooey seedy stuff inside. I felt like my arm was going to fall off. All in all though I think we had a great time!

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Drum Major out!

~Fin~

Band Night at DQ

2011-10-25T16:44:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday the band had a fundraiser at the Frankfort Dairy Queen and in-spite of the weather it was a blast! There was a great representation of the band there. We ate some blizzards and other food then played in the blizzard outside. I felt bad for the band because they didnt have gloves and me being the Drum major well... I did hahah. But to feel their pain I only put one on. Other than the cold I think everyone had a good time and I think we raised quite a bit of money too! :D

Keep you feet on the Ground and keep reaching for the stars! Drum major out!

~Fin~

This week's rundown (at least for me)

2011-08-22T04:14:00.001-07:00

monday: Soccer game away
tuesday; band performance to the school board
wed.: soccer game away
thursday:soccer/band practice
friday: soccer practice then fist home football game
....ugh gotta love high school!
~izak~

4 years already!

2011-08-17T10:18:00.001-07:00

it's hard to believe that this year marks my mom's 4th year working at the docter's office! it seems like yesterday i was riding with grandpa over to indy on my last day of 5th grade to pick up my mom from her training. I still to this day am so thankful that god provided this for us! My mom used to not be able to make it for dinner many nights but now shes home some times before me!
anyways keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!
drum major out!
~fin~

Encouraging Tragedy

2011-08-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

So as most of us know there was a very horrible disaster at the Surgarland concert at the state fair last Saturday night. The stage collapsed on to the crowd close to the stage due to wind gusts before a storm. Many people were injured and 5 people as of right now are believed to be dead because of this.

Very sad and heart breaking to think about that. To think of all those people who had gone to the state fair that day to have a good time and to enjoy a concert but for many of them to end up being hurt and injured and for a few to have lost their lives. Very discouraging.

As humans it's easy for us to focus on the bad and discouraging things and to look past the good and even encouraging things.

When the stage collapsed there were tons of people of cour

se who ran away to get out of the grandstand and even the fair grounds. I don't blame them, I wouldn't want to be around that situation. I'd want the heck out of there. But there were also many who ran towards the disaster to help people get out.

I commend those people they put their selves and families in danger to help others out and to save many lives. One person said on WTHR "We just knew we needed to do something to get these people out." There were people young and old picking up the rigging from the stage that had collapsed and pulling people out.

Now I don't know about you but that's something very encouraging to think about. It's in these situations that we see that there are still many many good people in the world who don't focus on the problem, but focus on finding a solution.

~Thank you to all who helped at the state fair tragedy!~

~God Bless you all~

~Fin~

It All Goes Back To Grandpa

2011-08-15T00:37:00.000-07:00

Well for you who haven't heard I have taken charge of being the new Drum Major for the Frankfort Marching Band and recently I just got interviewed by the paper and had a front page article. So as you can imagine I was nervous about getting interviewed and this was the real deal. I had to set up an appointment with one of the writers and it was about a half an hour long. Before this the longest I had ever gotten interviewed was about 1 min.

So as I'm going throughout the interview I'm trying to be myself but to make sure I don't say anything wrong, but what I kept noticing is that I kept mentioning my grandpa. She would ask something like "Where did you get your first trombone" and I would say "Well my very first one came from my grandpa" Then she would ask something like "Why did you pick band" and I would say "Well many people in my family were in band including my grandpa" By the end of the interview on here note sheet she had a whole list of things about Grandpa, that's crazy! Whats also crazy is when I did a solo for the 8th grade talent show they were making a scrip for the MC's and they would say a fact about every act and they asked me why did i pick the trombone to play. Of course I said the reason was because my Grandpa played it.

IT all leads back to him! One of the questions I've had a hard time answering for the past couple years is "Who has been one of the biggest influences in your life to do band" In other words who was one of my biggest supporters and lead me in this direction and I used to not really have an answer. I mean I have many people who are supporters of me. My mom my past music teachers and various teachers, my whole family, the list goes on and on. and I would always say something like "many people" or "I don't know". Now, though I think I have a more clear picture of who is one of my biggest influences music wise and it would have to be my grandpa.

Like I said, it all leads back to him. and I'm thankful of that.

So anyways keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!

Drum Major out!

~FIN~

AU MUSIC EDU: Day 1!!!!

2011-06-06T21:41:00.001-07:00

Well today was the first day and boy was it fun packed!!!! I woke ul at 6:30 this morning then had break fast then it was our first session with dr.Tim!
Dr. Tim did 2 sessions today on leadership and he was soooooo funny and inspiring!
after dr. Tim we had aural skills and aural skills are actually the do re mi type of stuff. We did things with our voice and xylophones and it was so fun. We even did a song all together.
After aural skills we had a how to prepare for college panel where we all sat in a semi circle and listened and asked questions to a panel of staff from the au school of music.
Finally we broke for about an hour lunch then had musical theater with Dan Anderson and also a few au school of music staff and the rossville choir director mr. Waltz. We learned a lot abou putting on a high school musical.
After was mock auditions and master class. That was were a couple volentiers kinda went through the experience and we got to see what it was like.
We had another session with dr. Tim then had supper at Ryans and boy did it taste good! Then followed conducting class which was fun except for the fact that I was still in drum major mode and wanted to use both hands to conduct.
Last was another drumming session and we created another cool cadence that was even harder. I'll post a video of it on here when I get back.
The rest of the nite was spent at the wellness center playing ultimate frisbee!
Well to end out the day when all of us guys were heading to our rooms the councilors asked is who the singers were and all of us but one raised there hands and there are about 8 of us and they asked us if we wanted to try a run and they made all 8 of us into a barber shop quartet and it was amazing!!! I was the bass singer of course and it was a heck of a lot of fun!
Sooo any ways I'd better get to sleep! Keep watching for more updates on here and on Facebook!! Keep ur feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!
~iZak

AU MUSIC EDU CAMP: Opening day

2011-06-05T21:31:00.001-07:00

Well I'm currently located in a dorm room on the Anderson University campus attending their music education camp. So every nite I plan to post what happened on that day!

So today we all came in in the afternoon and got situated in our rooms and like I said previously I'm in a dorm but actually they're more like apartments. There are 4 bedrooms, a living room/ kitchen, and there are 2 bathrooms with a shower in each of them. I have 2 roomates so it's actually pretty nice.
My two roomates are mathew and the other's name I think is devon. Devon plays the saxaphone. But mathew is the one I'm more excited about, he is a trombone player and loves marching band music and is going into his sophomore year! Now who does that sound like? Lolz he's like my twin!!!
So as you can tell right off the bat I felt comfortable, but one of the coolest things that happened was that when we first came in they gave us these bags with a binder and shirts and a water bottle with au aperral on them. The cool thing about it was ther was a real baton in there with a case and everything!!!!! We were told later that we will be using them during this week!
So after everyone was registered we went over to the fine arts center and had an opening meeting where they kinda told us what we would be doing this week. Then after we went to the student center to eat supper and I had turkey and mash potatos and green beans and lemon pie and boy was it yummy! We took a very short and small tour of the campus and of the fine arts center because we had some free time in-between supper and the faculty recital.
The faculty recital was amazing!!!! They were all faculty of the au music education program and I was on the edge of my seat for all of it!!! There was a variety of instruments but my favorite was probably the trombone player!
After the faculty recital we went back to the room we had been in for the opening meeting to do this very kool workshop on rythym. We kept putting rhythms together to make a cadence and it was fun!!! After we went to the welness center to swim/ play basketball
So as you can tell today was a great start for these next 3 days!!! And I think it will only get mor fun and busy and so that means I should probably get to sleep because we have our alarms set for about 7am and it's around 1 right now.
So keep our feet on the ground and keep checking in for updates on Facebook and on here!!!
~iZak

Through My Eyes Summer!!!!!

2011-06-03T19:59:00.000-07:00

Well it's here!!!! Summer of 2011!!!! We've all been waiting for it and so many things are happening not just in my schedule but for the TME schedule! and yes! The name is back to Through My Eyes!! and if you have followed the blog for the past couple years, you will have known that summer is the biggest time I post things on the blog even with my busy summer!!!!

So to start this off i'll post some of the tasks that will be done with the blog this summer!

- Change the name back to through my eyes

- A New logo

- a New Template

-New polls

-and so much more

Well I look forward to posting and possiblly hearing feed back! And don't forget to keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!!!!!!

~iZak

PRESS CONFERENCE* (Session 1)

2011-05-14T22:06:00.001-07:00

ok so there has been a case of the nasty flu called RUMORS so i have decided to clear things up here and have my own little press conference. Also if you know me you'd know that I really do not enjoy posting my emotions or personal life that much rather yet talk about them.

So heres a rare chance to hear whats going on with Isaac Denniston

Is it true that your high school band director is being fired?

No that is in correct. He was told by the school's super intendant that he will be the new music teacher at Suncrest Elementary School and will be taking Mrs. Heath's Job.

Is it true that you tried out for Fortissimo (show choir) but your own cousin who is the choir director did not want you to join?

I did try out for Fortissimo and eventually I did make it in. The problem was that at first I wouldn't of been able to be in 3 trimesters of band because I didn't have enough spots for that and so Mr. Denniston had told me that as long as I could be in 3 trimesters in band then he would be all for me joining. So then I worked it out with the councilors to switch a couple things in my schedule and they made it possible for me to join.

Are you going to be the new drum major next year?

Last Monday after band Mr. Troyer had asked me if it was ok if he could tell the next band teacher that I would be the best choice for drum major.I ansered with a I would really love to do it but I will need to think about it and so I plan to announce my decision sometime on tuesday.

Is it true that you are planning to go to Evoula next year?

No comment

Weren't you planning on dyeing your hair this spring.

That was my original plan. I had wanted to dye it the night of Big broadcast but later I had decided to grow it out first so it may still be possible.

END OF SESSION 1

~iZAK

Ummm yeah...

2011-04-28T12:27:00.001-07:00

So I guess it's not ok to text and walk but o
It's ok to blog and walk ????!

iZak

No Ordinary Book

2011-04-26T12:16:00.001-07:00

How can one of the oldest books in the entire world, be such a powerful book?
That book teaches us life lessons and shows us huge spiritual guidance. The book was written by so many people but has ony one author.
Confusing, isn't it?
That's also a trait that this book has. It can be really confusing. It's so confusing that there are some chapters that are about events that would happen hundreds of years from then!
No this book it not "the physic book" its the word of god, the bible.

HA it only took 3 years

2011-04-25T15:33:00.000-07:00

Wow I just now noticed that I'm up to 150 posts on my blog wow. I must of not noticed it thats unusual. I mean if you remember when I got to my 50th post I had Chris Kaiti Preston and I do a "Through My Eyes" Podcast and had a couple of guests and it was just fun for us and a hard time for the people who watched it.

Then there was the blog's 1 year anniversary and we had a very boring podcast because I told them not to get wild

Then last fall I had accomplished 100 posts and I had put together an outtake reel from videos that I had done on my blog.

So usually here at the TME headquarters (My House) a special event doesn't get looked over.

So it's been a while since I've blogged except for the Mr. Denniston Shows, but summer is just around the corner and I'm usually good at blogging during that time.

Nothing really hasn't changed recently so I decided not to do the whole update thing i've done before. The only thing different is The Mr. Denniston show and all that is is my "Video Blog" I guess you could say really it's just for me to have fun producing videos.

So anyways I guess I will say happy 150th post TME and I will note that my blogging days are far from over and I hope to blog soon!

~iZak

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #7

2011-04-15T19:18:00.000-07:00

Silly Songs With Isaac- The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #6

2011-04-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #5

2011-02-25T05:21:00.000-08:00

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #4

2011-02-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

2011-02-13T19:42:00.001-08:00

Life comes with troulbles
Temptations
Pain
And heartaches
it even comes with
Victories
Awards
And good times
But inspite of allofthis
God has a plan for you

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #3

2011-02-04T22:17:00.000-08:00

Mr. Denniston show-Episode #2

2011-02-01T23:59:00.000-08:00

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode 1

2011-01-31T08:01:00.000-08:00

To Help you out

2011-01-25T15:35:00.000-08:00

I know that there are some new visitors on this blog and so to help you guys with the poll here's one of the podcasts we did back in 2009.

TME: Following the Director: My 50th Post

Remember the Podcasts?

2011-01-24T21:03:00.001-08:00

For the people who have been from the start you could maybe remember the TME Podcast we did back in 2009. Well some of the cast and crew from those videos have been wanting to do that again. Just a thought so what I decided is to have a poll about bring the podcast back.

Doggie Sleepover

2011-01-24T20:58:00.000-08:00

Joie (my Dog) has been having sesiours lately since about july and we think it might be epilepcy due to this W have been putting Joie in the cage every night. Before this she had been sleeping in my room but until now that has stopped. now I've been letting her sleep in my room a couple nights so it feels like a "doggie Sleepover" again!

so keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! iZak out!

~FIN~

One thing a 3 year old and i have in common

2011-01-21T21:58:00.000-08:00

Well I'm sure u guys have seen this video but it was such a kool video that i thought i ought to post it on hereIt even reminds me of when this happened last year

~iZak~

THROUGH MY EYES INC.

2011-01-11T20:05:00.000-08:00

Lolz, weel you guys know that i love to make logos and so I made a logo that lists all my blogs and it makes it look like it's a company. This is funny!!!

~izak, Fin~

It's Still Through My Eyes (More About the Name Change)

2011-01-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

I'd like to clearify one more thing. In the last post I introduced the new name but i'd like to clearify that it's still the through my eys blog but I have felt like it needed a change but the name probably will go away after a while and go back to Through My Eys but I needed a little change.

~izak, Fin~

Well I was Beat to the Punch

2011-01-09T14:27:00.000-08:00

Funny story; I’ve been trying to get back into blogging and so I thought about changing just a couple things on the blog because time has passed and things change. Well things started to fall in place and I started thinking about making more changes but just a couple little things and then I decided to change the template of the blog. So I spent about 2 weeks looking for a new template and then I found this template. IT was a template that I had wanted for a very long time and so when I put the template on the blog I noticed that my life hasn’t been the same as before and many things have changed. That’s when I came up with the new name.

My mom has raised me to listen and to follow not only God but also my teachers and other people like that. And I feel like I’m a musician Following the conductor in Every thing I do or every note I play. That’s when I remembered the verse saying “Come and follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”

So any ways here’s the funny part. After I had done all these changes I went and saw that Jenessa had a new post on her blog and I noticed that she had made a lot of changes on hers and she even changed the name of it. So I’d like to clarify that no one copied off each other and we had no contact with each other about this. I still think of her blog as my sister blog. Seriously you should see the new changes to it. It’s now call “Reinventing Me” and it has a cook new design and I don’t wat to give anything away about it so check it out.

Any ways. Keep your feet on the ground and keep trusting in god. iZak out!

~FIN~

One of many

2010-12-31T12:46:00.000-08:00

I have been blessed to be in such a big and caring family. I have many cousins and many aunts and Uncles. I've felt like I've been close with most of my family but there are some people that I just never have gotten to spend time with.

My Uncle Mike Has been one of the biggest ones. I never ever got to know him before this fall. All i knew about him was that he is the oldest of the siblings and he is really compettitive. Also I knew that he is a big music lover.

So this fall I went to grandma and grandpa's house the day before family thanksgiving and got to spend some time with mike and got to have some fun conversations with him. We even watch the Napannee tape together on my laptop.

After that I noticed how great of a guy mike just really is and I look forward to seeing him at family "get-togethers" and other times again.

So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!

izak out!

~FIN~

UPDATE SERIES™: † Church Life†

2010-12-29T21:49:00.000-08:00

2010 I will probably remember as one of the more progressive years. I found out what some of my talents were (aka Music), I got a pretty good idea of what I may want to do with my life. One of biggest things is that I feel way more closer to God and my church. I realized that the Christan life was the way to go and I still have many things to work out and understand but I feel really close.

I think it's also effected on how big my part is with the church. At the beginning of the year I was just a normal "Church goer" Now I am more connected with the church by being on the Sound Crew and the worship team and being the creator of

the Kelley crossing Podcast and the creator of the Kelley Crossing Logo.

Every Sunday I get to sit in the back with my cousin Chris and help run the sound and also record the service. In the middle of October I had a meeting with Pastor Daniel Like we always do every 2 weeks or so. We had just gotten a new sound system at the church and for some reason we started talking about this idea about recording the messages each Sunday and posting them on the K

elley Crossing Facebook Page and even creating some thing called a podcast. Well I had recently gotten a new computer for Christmas and I knew how to hook it up so that we could record the service. So that Sunday I was in the back with Chris and made the very first Kelley Crossing podcast. Well it's really evolved since then. The Podcast is being posted on Facebook in video. Also In that Meeting we made the final decision to make the logo that i had created during the summer the official Church Logo.

About 2 months ago the church had been saying that they would like to create a Worship Team. So I had gotten aske

d if I would like to be on it and i of course said yes. Singing has been something that has also been something that has made an appearance in my life.

I've always have loved music and sing but never have I ever thought about singing in church until last Easter when I Sang with My uncle Joel and my mom. We sand "Jesus We crown you with praise". That was when i was starting to get into my Gaither Vocal Band Phase. So I started learning how to sing parts. Earlier fall late summer of this year I got to do a trio with my uncle Joel and my mom except this time i got a solo. We sang "He Still Speaks" Which is one of my favorite songs. So after that i decided to get brave and do a solo in church. The cool thing about this solo was that it was around my Grandpa's birthday so i sang one of his favorite songs."God Takes Good Care of Me". Another cool thing about this was that I had surprised everyone and on the screen had made it so that toward the end a video of him singing the song about 11 years ago came up and it was synced with the music. (that so happened to be the same day that i started recording the podcast) I've done a couple other solos since then.

Here is my most recent performance of me singing "Merry Christmas With Love":

So as you can see being on the worship team and singing has been really fun to me.

After writing all of this I realize how blessed I am to have all these opportunities to be a blessing. It's like that phrase "Blessed to be a Blessing" I know that my skills have blessed some one else and that makes me feel good. This year has taught me what to do with my skills and that is to Honor god with them.

That can be said with any skill. If your good at counting money you could be a CWC treasurer or if you are good at typing you could be the person to type the bulletin for church. If you're good with technology be apart of the sound crew. Whatever you're skill may be do it to Honor god get even more connected.

2010 has been a very blessed year and

I'm glad to say that I am apart of my church.

So there's your update look out for more but until then keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Denniston out and serving

~Fin~

UPDATE SERIES™: After school activities

2010-12-02T18:26:00.000-08:00

So if you didn't notice my life has been very busy and that's because I have joined many extra/ Co- curricular activities. The first thing I tried out for was the Hooligans Improve Troupe at the high school but I did not succeed at making it in.

The second thing I joined was Best Buddies. Best Buddies is where you become a friend with a special ed student and you take them to places and hang out with them. Thats become a big part of my life is special ed students. I love them like they're my family and I love having the opportunity to make their life better. I get to sit with them at lunch everyday and I even will have a class with them next trimester.

This year I got a call from the middle school asking me if I would like to help the pep band again. So now more recently my nights have consisted of FMS basket-ball games. Also just recently I got asked if I would like to help work with the middle schoolers on solo and Ensemble.

Well of course High school Pep band and Solo and Ensemble takes up my time too.h

Then there also was the fall musical That i'll talk about later.

So really that's a little update on my after school activities look out for more. So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Denniston out!

~Fin~

UPDATE SERIES™:♪Band♫

2010-12-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

Well as you remember, I was very much involved with the Music Dept. (Especially Band) last year. This year I still am very involved but I took it to the next level. First Trimester I was 1st chair trombone/ Low-Brass Section leader in Marching band.

Marching band was the only band class in 1st trimester. FHS hasn't had a Marching Band for 4 years now, so we were the group that got it started up again. We participated at every Home game by doing a pre-game and a halftime show. Also, we went to Purdue and IU Band Days and played with 30 other schools in their halftime show. One of the hardest events we did was the Homecoming Parade. We walked from down town all the way to the high school in 80-90 degree weather. It was such a fun, but hot, experience.

All of First Trimester Marching band was fun. I loved being a "Marching Hotdog"

Now I'm in second trimester, where I have gotten even more involved with the band. This trimester, 2 bands are offered and I signed up for both of them. (The only one who did) I'm in Concert Band and Jazz Band.

In Jazz Band there are about 18-20 musicians in there and they're all very focused and care about band. That makes that the more advanced band class. It's my favorite and first period of the day.

Concertband is very.... well interesting. It has a lot of new people in it so the focus isn't so high but it's a good size band. Preston and I have tried taking up a lot of leadership and trying to be good models of the band.

Right now both bands are working up to saturday when we will join together to march in the Christma

s parade. WITH THE TROMBONES IN FRONT!!!!!!!!!

Ever since we marched in the homecoming parade my fellow Trombone Eddie and I have been protesting to be in the front of the marching band. I mean it's only common sence that trombones should be in front. With our slides we could knock-out the person in front of us. So anyway, this morning we were put in the front.

That's another thing, In Jazz Band I'm the only trombone then in concert band there are two trombones. BUT THE LOW BRASS SOUND IS STILL THERE :)

So music is still a VERY big part in my life. Keep you eyes open for more updates but until then keep you feet on the ground and keep reaching fro the stars!! Deniston out!!

~© FIN~

Updates, Rundowns, Wrap-ups... What ever you want to call them

2010-11-30T18:52:00.000-08:00

As you can tell from the last post it's been a long time since I have blogged. So what's going to happen is in the next couple days I will be posting updates on things that have been going on in my life.

~Mr. Denniston

Well Let's Wrap-up the past 2 months and update them

2010-10-02T22:33:00.000-07:00

Oh man am I glad to be back and blogging, It's been so long! Let see, last time I was blogging was when I was about to go into high school. PROBLEM: I was scared and felt small. SOLUTION: I joined clubs like; Best Buddies- Where I work with special education students, also got a part in the Musical- I'm a Butler and also am in the poor chorus in the musical "Jekyll and Hyde" And there is always Marching band.

Well that took care of that now next was that I was about to go to Fire-crafter Ritual AND COMPLETE THE UNKNOWN TESTS. Well all i'm able to tell you is that I'm now officially a fire crafter.

Next was marching band. I have been busy with marching band. We went to Purdue band day 2weeks ago and IU band day 1 week ago...... (just fell asleep and went away for 3 weeks lol but i'm back again so fast forward to 3 weeks) Well see how busy i am i couldn't finish this post in one time. I fell asleep and didn't have time to keep working on it until now, 3 WEEKS LATER. Well let me just update a little bit more about the band.

Well It's been 4 Months now and so i figure i'll do an update in a couple days that will explain everything so much beter but i hope to blog more often now that the musical is over

Freshman? What?

2010-08-12T00:16:00.000-07:00

well school is about to start in a few days and it's just hard to believe that I'm going to high school! I don't feel like a High Schooler and I don't feel like I'm ready but I'm going. It's kinda like my mom going into the 21st century. She alway says she's going "kicking and screaming". That's how I feel about High School. I'm going kicking and screaming. Think about it. I just was at the top of the school now I have to go back to the bottom. how would u feel?

My Mom has made a couple steps. We have High speed internet and sattlelight. Also she has made it into the world of Facebook. So I guess I'll have to be like my mom and make a few steps into high School and have a positive attitude.

So Keep Your Feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!!!!!! Denniston Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~FIN~

Updates.. How fun

2010-08-06T22:13:00.000-07:00

I guess Updates are used to get people up-to-date on what's going on. I guess I only do this when I haven't blogged for a while. Well First thing is the podcast right now is being edited. It celebrates my second anniversary of blogging. It was fun it had Colton mom and me in it. Next is Marching band. I have been very busy with marching band. We are getting ready for the foot ball season and it's going very well. We will be going to Disney World Christmas of 2011 so we are very fired up! and Last. Next Friday I am going to Camp Belzer to go through Firecrafter Ritual so I can earn the rank of Firecrafter. Any Ways there's you update and I hope to blog soon! Keep your Feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out!!!!!

~FIN~

My Grandparents :) I Love Them!!!!

2010-07-21T20:51:00.001-07:00

There's things you love about you grandparents. Things like how they mute their TV during commercials and call it a "commercial skipper". There's also how they have spam for supper every night. They take naps after the news then wake up in time for the 5 O'Clock news. Then there's always the health shows they watch in the morning trying to sell you medicines to kill fungus.

Grandparents are always fun to have around but the bad thing is they start to rub off on you. You might start using the word pitiful more often. Or

you might find yourself turning down the temperature on the air conditioning because you feel too hot. If the really rub off on you you may wake up at four am to catch paster shows on the Angel Network. (Results may vary)

I have been very fortunate to be blessed with a set of

Grandparents that love and care for me. They have rubbed off on

me too I may not wake up at 4am to watch preachers but they have rubbed off on me the love they have for God. They have been a very godly influence to me and I thank them and love them for that. They have shown me how to serve and love the lord and honor him for many many years. I wish that everyone in the world would have grandparents like that. Unfortunately it's not true.

So Grandma and Grandpa, I love you!

~FIN~

I'm Back

2010-07-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

Well after getting back from 4 days of IYC in Florida, i'm finished with my vacations! and I just high lighted the word "Vacations" because it's 12:30am and I am bored. So it's been almost a month since I have posted, wow! The last post was about the Branson trip coming to a close and that was posted from my Wii in the hotel bedroom so this is the first time before i left for Branson that I am posting from my computer. I think I should start saying where i'm posting from or what I'm posting from like jenessa and her blog: ~Posted from J's iPad~ but have it say: ~posted from IMD's Computer that is 50 years old and is slower than molasses~ only short. I don't know I think that it might be too crowed with that and ~FIN~. So I don't know I may try it.

So Anyways the Branson trip was fun especially going to nascar speedpark but it w

as a long ride home. It seemed like the longest 2 days ever. We picked up Joie on the way home and she was crazy a

bout seeing us.

The next morning I went with Steve and Barb to Eaton First Church of God and stayed at Andy and Jennessa's for a whole week. I got to guest

Blog on Jennessa's Blog (www.denniston.blogspot.com) and it was fun! She might also guest blog on here in the near future. That

Friday I was the first night of NAC or otherwise known as camp meeting. There mom and Grandma and grandpa picked me up and took

me home.

On that Sunday I left for a week of Scout Camp. Ransburg was fun and I went for a rank of

Firecrafter. Fir

ecrafter is a prestigious but hard rank to earn. One of the requirements was to start a fire by

friction and keep

it going for 20mins. I achieved all the things I had to at Camp and so I have to do the UNKNOWN TESTS OF RITUAL! So in August I'll spend a weekend at ritual.

So on Saturday I got back home from Camp Ransburg and took a long nap.

Monday was the beginning of VBS (Vacation Bible School) at our Church. The theme was; The story of Joseph going from the prison to the palace. I was the Family leader of the Memphis Family. Lydia and Levi came and stayed at our house

for the week. So while Mom was at work I babysat them. It was a fun but long week but it was sad to see them go that Friday.

Well that Sunday after Ky's B-Day party I stayed the night at Grandma and Grandpa's House. It's always fun to have that homey feeling when you go there

On Wednesday at 4am I went to the Airport in Indy and flew to Orlando, FL for IYC (International Youth Convention) It was a really fun experience and we're already planning for IYC 2012. Prior to the IYC experience it was also fun to stay at the Peabody Hotel and to see the ducks.

So that's pretty much an update of what's been going on as you can see the results have come in on the poll and more people use regular iPods than any Apple product. So keep your feet on the ground an keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out!

~Fin~

~~~~ Posted from IMD's Computer (Yeah I like it)

As it comes to an end

2010-06-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

Well, vacation #1 is coming to a close after a week of Branson fun. Mom and i had a time with the Sopkos, and we think that they had fun too. Now this post may sound a little sad, but i'm only 1/4 of the way of my vacation time.
I will be home sometime tomorrow then sunday morning, i'm going with steve and Barb to go to Eaton for church and staying at Andy's and Jennessa's until friday nite. I'll then be home for Saturday but sunday morning i'll be leaving again for SCOUT CAMP! [UGH] i'll finally be back home for about 3 weeks then it will be time for International Youth Convention or IYC down in Miami, Florida.
So the ending of this vacation is not sad to me at all. We did/are ending it out with a bang. We're doing the stuff i voted and wanted to do.
Now what is a better way of ending a vacation than doing THE FUN STUFF? The girls picked boring things like MINI GOLF or THE LINCOLN HOME or even SOUVENIR SHOPPING. I never did understand souvenirs. You always bring back things from the place you went and give it to people like your friends or family. Most likely they were/are jellous of you going and now they have some thing to remind then of their jellousy. Then you won't get a christmas present next year. Anyways, i picked fun things like dixie stampede and Nascar speedpark.
We went to the Dixie Stampede last night and we are doing last min. Packing so we can leave for home and stop at Nascar Speedpark and spend the after noon there. So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the ☆stars☆! ♪Denniston♪ out!
~FIN™~

It`s Only Just Begun

2010-06-15T13:46:00.000-07:00

Right now I`m on the Wii posting from our hotel bedroom in Branson, Missouri. I decided to post a little about our vacation.
We left on friday and stayed the night in Festus, Mo. that night. On the way there we had stopped in springfield IL. to see the area where Lincoln had lived and where he was buried.
Then we had a long day of driving and made it to Branson Missouri.
Sunday we had a hard time finding a church but we still found one. Then we had lunch at Mickey Gilley's restaurant. Then we swam for the rest of the day. Yesterday, was transportation day. We started out by going on the Duck Tour. That where they take you in this car and it goes into the water. Then we ate at Ruby Tuesdays. And after that, we hopped onto the Branson scenic railway train. All it really was was a train ride around Branson. I thought that it was kinda boring but what made it fun was that it was my first train ride and > got to spend time with my annoying cousin, TREVOR. Then the rest of the day consisted of nothing but me swimming while TREVOR and Cindi stayed back. Cindi played on Fashion wars and TREVOR played his new game.
RIP MEG
MAY SHE REST IN PIECE
AND MAY WE WISH HER LUCK AS SHE GOES TO THAT BIG WII IN THE SKY
Today we had “Breakfast” with Mark Twain and then we did some Old Fashion shopping. And then we ate lunch at Olive Garden for Cindi's birthday. But now we are waiting for her to get her swimsuit on. So anyways, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!
♪FIN♪

Changes Again??

2010-06-09T22:27:00.000-07:00

I know, I know!! You're thinking, "He changed his layout again????????" Well I remembered Why I changed that old layout the last time. The blog looked too dark. I love that template but again, It's way too dark!!! So I went with a more simple (HA, when does Isaac do anything simple??) design and I like it. It has a more up-to-date flavor and it's orange.

On the subject of new things there's a new widget kind of thing. It's call "Blogs from the Family" and It's a list of blogs that my family does. There's Jennessa's "From My Front Porch Looking In" and theirs "Diane's Day. Which actually just changed their name from "THE JOURNEY" to "Diane's Day". O.K. then there's also Jen's "Catching Up, and Falling Down" and last there's Chris' "chrishowie.com" (Great name! I wonder what the URL is? :)

Another thing is I finally learned how to move "~FIN~" to the right side of the post instead of the left.

Last, If you remember a while back ago. I had a list of links that were related to the blog in anyway. Well that's back now with the two Facebook fan pages and the other more religious blog.

so those are the changes that I made to the blog. I feel like I just gave a tour except for the fact that it's almost 2am and I have to get up early tomorrow. I have a huge lists of events that I have to do before I leave for Branson, MO which will be Friday. So I think it's in my best interest to go to bed now so Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out!!!

~FIN~

This is for Chris H.

2010-06-09T14:56:00.001-07:00

V A C A T I O N ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

2010-06-08T21:55:00.000-07:00

Well the sopkos and the Dennistons are combining again to go on vacation and this time it will be to Branson, MO!!! This will be the 3rd one we've taken together. So while I'm gone my profile pi will lock like this. It's actually from the last time we took a trip but as you can see I've put the words BRANSON over it. So Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!!!!!!!! DENNISTON OUT!!

~FIN~

Music Vs. Words

2010-06-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, I am a fan of southern gospel music and the Gaither Vocal Band and just regualr church hyms. I love listening, singing danceing (The church of God would frown on me doing that) to it. Sometimes though, I ask myself Why? Why do I like this kind of music? Is it the Rhythm? Maybe the harmonics? The people singing? OR is it the words?

I ask myself If I listen to the words and put them into play in every day situations? Or do i just tap my foot and listen to the music. Mark Lowry said before that faith isn't just based on chills that you get from music. I keep thinking that I need to focus more on what the words are saying than what they're playing. It's like when I'm trying to read my text-book at school I see the words and I can read them but It's even harder for them to be placed in my mind. This was something 'i was just think about. So keep your feel on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out!

~FIN~

A Funny Way to Start Off Your Sunday

2010-06-06T05:24:00.000-07:00

Source: http://marklowry.tumblr.com

Counting-down the days

2010-06-05T21:27:00.000-07:00

I feel like it's been a blogging rampage for me because this is my "free time". Soon I will be leaving to go on vacation and then after that It will be crazy. So enjoy the blogging while you can but remember after I'll have a lot to blog about!

~FIN~

Home Movies

2010-06-05T19:31:00.000-07:00

Well a couple weeks ago my church's youth group worked at an auction and my mom bought a VCR there because our old one died. So lately we've been watching VHS' and I pulled out a few home videos and saw some interesting things. Looking at all of these videos made me think. "If I'm so fascinated by these videos, what will keep my kids even more fascinated in videos of me?" So what I'm going to try to do is keep the videos I've made through the years. Like this:

So anyways, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!

What is with this template?

2010-06-04T22:43:00.000-07:00

As you have see for the past 2 years, I can not keep the same template for a long period of time (Unlike jenessa and her blog) and I keep ending up with this template. I don't know what it is about this template but i'll TRY to keep it for a while.

~FIN~

Through-out all of life

2010-06-02T22:09:00.000-07:00

Do you remember some thing called "Cliques" in Jr. High and Sr. High. All the "Athletes and the "Nerds" things like that?

Well Lydia and Levi just recently visited our house and we had a real fun time. Lydia and I took Joie for a walk and while we were walking we were talking. (Walkin' and a talkin') So I was asking he things like how's school going how are your friends, and she told me some interesting things about her friends. Now all due respect to Lydia I will not give away any information but the interesting thing that she told me was that her friends have groups (Cliques) or teams as she put it.There was one team that made friends all the time and played with every body. Then there was this other "Team" where they chased girls. This team had both girls and boys and the all chased girls all over the place and made the other team scared of them.

When I was hearing this it made me think, "Wow, this is just like cliques at school" If you remember there were Cliques that "over-ruled" other cliques and it was just like Lydia's teams, they were scared of the bigger team.

So then I thought of how this relates to God and the bible. (Having the Denniston mind that I have) It reminds me of the devil and how he will theoretically "chase" the other team which is God's team. So what should we do when the devil has us on a high-speed-chase? We should stick together and trust in god cause he'll see us through and there will be a better day!

Oh goodness I could list tons of Gaither songs that could go with this but it's true. Which team do you want to be on? The one that chases other people around till they are scared? Or the team that is promised eternal life? You make your pick.

So I really don't know where this was going but keep your feet on the ground (and keep trusting in God) and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!

~FIN~

The last day (FMS)

2010-05-28T21:44:00.000-07:00

Well today was my last day of middle school. I'm sad and very relived to say that. I looked back (Ha how many times have I said that?) on the past 3 years and noticed how much has changed. I can remember being on-top-of-the-world at the end of 5th grade and then getting a rude awakening in 6th grade. 6th grade I can honestly saw was my wost school year ever. There were days where I faked being sick just to get out of school because I was so tired of it. Then My seventh grade year was fun but i learned too much fun can effect your grades. Then this last year. this last year has made me even more prepared for life. It also was one of the most scholastic and musical years. I was on the academic bowl team and as you can see I had a lot of achievements in Music.

My last notes of middle school are; When you enter in there you are this piece of wood. Once you have exited out of there you are STILL this piece of wood but you have been carved into it a little bit.

So keep your feet on the ground and keep looking for the stars! Denniston (The 9th grader... UGH I hate saying that!) Out! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 9

~FIN~

A-lot Can Change and Happen in a Year

2010-05-14T02:15:00.000-07:00

Last year around the end of the school year, I ordered a trombone solos book full of Disney solos. The book came with a CD. The CD had all the songs in the book and it played along with the melody but it also had an accompanist only track where it just played the background music. When I actually received the book was the Thursday before the last 3 days of school and that evening, we went to help Dede get ready for her wedding. So all the way to and from Indianapolis I listened to that CD. As I listened to all those tracks, I pictured a concert. A special Concert called "Disney Concert". I just dreamed, and dreamed about it.
A month later, I had started acting like I was directing the music. I did this just for fun. I had no intentions taking this seriously. I kept on doing that for the rest of the summer.
At the beginning of the school year, I finally decided that I wanted to be a music teacher. No one really knew this, I don't even think that my mom even knew, but by the first quarter. I think every one knew. We had spirit week the week before the first nine weeks ended. The student council had planed fun days on those days like; "Mix- match day" or "Pj Day". Just fun days like that. One of them was "Career Day". The day before Career Day, I asked Mr. Burrows (My Band Teacher) what a band teacher would where. He told me to wear my school blazer and he let me borrow one of his ties too. It was fun to do that and I wish that I had a picture because the outfit looked perfect.The next week later, I was writing an article for "The Hot-Dog Herald" about the fall concert. So I had to go interview each of the music teachers. So I set-up a date when I would interview each of them and they all only took like 5-6 mins. But when I went to interview Mr. Burrows, we spent a whole 2hours talking. We talked about the 8th grade band, we talked about the 7th grade band, We talked about almost anything you can think of. One thing we talked about was, Directing. I told him about what happened in the summer and what I did and what he said was "We'll have to make that happen." So the plan was for me to direct the spring concert.
So time passed I got fatter, his hair got grayer and I waited and waited for spring to come.
Once spring came I was wondering if he had for gotten. He really couldn't have because I had gone into the band room every morning and when he would have band music playing I would act like I was directing it. One day, I had brought in band music that I had heard on the Internet before on a CD and he poped it in and played it. A couple weeks passed and he kept playing it and playing it . Finallyu one morning when I was in the room directing, he ask ed me if I would like to direct that song for the spring concert. I Said "Does Billy Gram have a quiet time? U betcha!" ok no, I didn't say that. (I had to get a line from Mark Lowry in here some where!) I did say yes though.
The song was a song that we had done already for the fall concert. The song was one of the best songs we ever did. The crowd loved it back in the fall so this made me excited for what the out come would be like now.So for two weeks I worked with the whole 8th grade band and trying to get every mistake that I made and that they made corrected. I do have one thing to say. I didn't know what I was getting myself into though. I had talent show practice all the time and the stress of that and also now the stress of this. I also knew that it would be hard controlling the students and some days it was just wild. But we got through it.
Finally came that day yesterday! Thursday the 13th. I was stressed out like heck! I was nervous, I was afraid that I would do something wrong or someone else might. I was a wreck that day but I got over it. My grandma and grandpa were there as well as Steve and Barb and Mom. I was glad for all of them to be there because this was going to be a surprise for them.
Well as a lot of you know is the format for these concerts is the orchestra goes first then the choir sings then the band plays. The first start with the 7th grade then they go to the 8th grade. So once it was time for the 8th grade band to play, Mr. Burrows went and explained what was about to happen. I was the second song so I had a few more mins. till. But once it was my turn I got up there and my knees where shaking but I had this sensation. This feeling that I can't describe (It could be the hamburger that I had just ate) It was like I felt something saying that this way something for me to do. I finally smiled and had fun.During the middle of the song there's this place I had been working on really hard at that I just could not do. I had been working on it in class and Mr. Burrows said once to just "Move my whole body". So I tired it and my hands went down first then I jumped in the air and it cracked up me and the whole class. So at the same spot during the concert I actually jumped.(At the right time) I made it so that the band couldn't even play their instruments because they were laughing so hard. I had fun with that. But another thing I had fun with was that I was directing with a pen and towards the end of the song, the pen slipped out of my hands and went back and hit the 7th grade band in the bleachers. So after I had to go find the pen and get it from one of them. It was fun doing it and this is probably a memory I will keep for ever.
So as you can see A-LOT can change in a year. I went from just listening to some band music and tapping my foot to shaking my arms around in public like a wet dog. One thing that will never change probably is me saying this; Keep your feet (and arms) on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!

~FIN~
~Special thanks to Mr. Burrows. It was a fun time!~

FMS Has Got Tallent (2010)

2010-05-07T14:58:00.000-07:00

Well It's that time again. I just got back from the Variety Show at school. As you can remember from last year I posted about how confusing and hectic and fun it was. Well multiply that by 3 and it will equal what this year was like. I was in 3 acts. The first act I was in was the pep band. We play two songs, one called "Sweet Georgia Brown" and the other was "Hot Shot". Then the next act I was in was the low brass trio. The three people in there were Eddie, Charlie and I and then we added a percussionist named Tre'. We played "The Final Countdown". Then the last act I was in was my trombone solo. I played the song "Reflection" from the Disney move Mulan.
The whole day was awesome (Not just because it was on my birth-day). I was able to get out of most my classes except for a couple. I played three times during the day and then there was a night show that My mom and Grandma and Grandpa went to as well as Preston's mom.
Preston was a co-MC with another person at school. So he was pretty busy that day too.
I wasn't really that busy during the first part of the show as far as changing outfits or being backstage but after I finished doing the trio act I had a limited amount of time to get changed and get backstage(and also get my nerves down). I also wasn't nervous for the most of the part but I was a little shaky before my solo. Except at the night show I was really nervous for my solo. The solo really wasn't that hard except there were a few notes that were pretty high, and I struggled with a couple of them but I think that I did an OK job.

Since that day was my birthday, I got a couple presents including a camera. My mom tried out the camera that night and she did a pretty good job. The video of my solo was from it. She did have a couple times where she got the video mode mixed up with the picture mode. So I saved a couple videos where she... well, had a senior moment.

So that really turned out to be a great day. I had fun preforming all day and I think others loved it to and... well I can't say "I can't wait till next year" like I did last year because I'll be in high school. and I have NO intentions of being in Big Broadcast at FHS (We'll see what happens a year from now) but I do have intentions of saying this. Keep your feet on the ground, and keep looking (Oh wait it's reaching. Wow it must have been a long time since I have blogged the last time.) reaching for the stars. Denniston out!

~FIN~

An Easter Melody

2010-04-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. It's a holiday where you see people get excited an alive a bout god. Like when I got to school i get to see some of my teachers show their religion by like getting their face ashed or taking Goo Friday off. I love seeing all the students at school doing things like eating fish for lunch instead of meat. there's always this exciting spirit around Easter. But there is always an exciting spirit around the other holidays too but Easter is mainly about the rising of our lord and savior unlike Christmas where everyone's excited for presents but i just love it.
Easter is also one of my favorite holidays to blog about. As you can remember, I made an Easter video last year. Well this year I tried making another one and it didn't come out that great so I've been thinking. What am I going to do for Easter this year on my blog? So hears what I've decided to do. I'm going to make my own little Easter melody. So lets begin.

The setting is Jerusalem an it's the day after the last supper.

Yes He really did give himself the day he wore my crown. It shouldn't have been HIM it should have been US!

Now lets go a little bit back in time and go through the years of jesus and how god sent him on this earth.

Yes Come on and join, We do all of this because he lives!

That really tells it all, Because he lives he holds the future. So that means we can face bad sad scary days Because HE lives.
My life verse is this
FEAR NOT, For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

~Jeremiah 29:11

Again this is all true because he lives. Thank you for watching the Easter Melody and I hope you had a great Easter. God bless you.

~HE HAS RISEN~
~HE HAS RISEN INDEED~

2010-03-29T05:10:00.001-07:00

Well i'm on the bus of misery going to school, ending a great spring break. I had a fun time with the family!

2010-03-25T08:51:00.001-07:00

I was look ing at my blog through de and chris's Wii and it i found out that it makes a difference when u reread and zoom in on what u wrote.

Temporary Home

2010-03-20T19:29:00.000-07:00

I was sitting on the deck today playing with cars and listening to The Gaither Vocal Band and i heard this song call "The Home of Your Dreams" and the song talks about all the great things of heaven an how it's like one big dream. This made me realize how no matter how good life can be. There's a better place and how we're not here permanently we're here fo just a short while and heaven is for eternity. so listen to the lyrics to the song and how it expresses heaven a the home of our dreams.

~FIN~

TME is back!

2010-03-16T20:11:00.000-07:00

Through My Eyes is back and running now with a different look and style to it.
When I started TME a year and a half ago I had a whole format to how i was going to write my posts. Now i'm going to break the rules. My Posts may be super long or super short. I may text from my computer or i may text from my phone*. I'll do whatever i want to o with it because it's my blog. It took me this long to figure this out but a blogs not about viewers it's about the writer letting out what on his/ her's chest. So anyway enjoy the new TME and Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars. Denniston Out!

~FIN~
*When I blog from my phone there will not be a title on the post, and i may use text-lingo like "lol" or "idk"

DEATH -NOT A PRETTY PICTURE

2010-01-17T19:47:00.000-08:00

I just finished reading this verry good book called The Twelfth Angel. Te story is that a 30 year old baseball player was about to make it into the big leagues, but then he gets some type of kneee injury which keeps him out. So then he falls back on all his computer knowledge and he gets selected to be ahead of one of the top computer companies. He took the job and move his wife an son back to his home town in New Hampshire. The town gave him a huge welcoming party. 2 weeks after the party, His wife and son are killed in a car wreck. The guy is justdevistated a few days ater in his house, and he has a gun right to his head and has his finger but then his old best friend was knocking on his door. I'm not gong to tell you the rest of the story but what happens is that the best friend wants him to manage a little legue team. So the rest of the book is about him maaging this little legue team and at the same time ealing with his loss.

Recently I'ved had to deal with a few deths in my life. Some of the people were close to me, and some weren't but they all had an impact on my life. But what The Twelfth Angel has taught me is that; Life moves on, you love them very much but they're in a better place.

~IN MEMORY OF~

Donny Hall

Hue Blackwell

Don't you love Facebook

2009-12-23T13:25:00.001-08:00

Jailbreak fugitive updates Facebook page

London, England (CNN) -- British police have appealed for information about the whereabouts of an escaped prisoner who has been telling the world via Facebook about his life as a fugitive.
Craig Lynch, 28, escaped Hollesley Bay open prison near Suffolk, eastern England, back in September, but has continued to update his Facebook status regularly -- describing everything from his meals to who his next girlfriend will be.
"mmm i just had a 12lb venison steak. Roasted veg and chips, bangin meal. I feel stuffed but still got room for the j.d's . Hope you enjoyed the meal babe's. We'll have to eat here again" Lynch wrote on his wall.
In another posting from earlier this week Lynch wrote "Is thinkin, which lucky girl will be my first of 2010!!."
Police are trying to use clues left by Lynch on his Facebook to track down where the convicted burglar may be hiding.
Lynch was sentenced to a seven-year prison term for aggravated burglary and was serving his sentence in an open prison before his escape, according to a police spokeswoman.
"We have spoken to Facebook and we are trying to trace him from the information we have, but it's one of those things that we're also asking for help from members of the public," Suffolk police spokesperson Anne-Marie Breach told CNN.
"Obviously we're taking what he's saying on Facebook with a pinch of salt because he's now aware that people may be reading what he's writing."
News that Lynch's Facebook was being updated broke yesterday and since then, he has written several times of his life on-the-run.
"The hotel staff haven't even clocked which was the only thing I've been paranoid about all day!" he wrote.
Lynch's most recent posting read "well what can i say fellow friends. The run is nearly over. Sorry some of you had to find out like this. I know some of you might take offence that i never told you personally. But you know me. I Trust No One. Its the only way to be."

Source:http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/23/uk.fugitive.facebook.prison/index.html

1,000

2009-12-17T19:28:00.000-08:00

After a whole year and 103 posts on December 17 Through My eyes Finally reached 1,000 visitors! Thanks to all my readers! All I have to say is Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!

Lets say Thanks!

2009-12-16T17:56:00.000-08:00

In the Christmas season were busy thinking about all the decorations and all the presents and your family, but we forget about the people that are fighting for us to be able to have Christmas. Our solders. They do not have a Christmas break or a couple days off. December 25 to them is just another work day to them. So I think it be great if we would all show a little appreciation to them by going to this website called "Lets Say Thanks .com" . It's a website that has premade cards drawn by children and you can put a little message on them and they have it made into a xerox card. It doesn't take long and it will let the solders know how much we appreciate them. So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars and remember, He just needs a few good men! Denniston Out!

~FIN~

Merry Christmas from Diane, Joey, and Isaac

2009-12-15T19:54:00.000-08:00

100th post

2009-11-27T16:23:00.000-08:00

As a gift to you people that have stayed with me for 100 posts I have made an 8 min video of TME outakes please enjoy!

What a blast, What a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-22T16:58:00.000-08:00

Last weekend was super fun for me. I went to the all region honor band and had a blast.

About a month ago 5 people had gotten a folder with 7 pieces of music and were told that we had 3 weeks to learn the music and have only a couple practices with our band director.

So we got to there and got divided up into sections and practiced with our section for about 20-30 mins. but then we did a 4hr rehersal with the fullband, had lunch then a 2hr rehersal with the full band. My lips were burning by the end of the day.

The next day after church was the concert and It was a blast. The whole group sounded professional. We played 6 0ut of the 7 pieces. One of the pieces was a comistion piece.(Means it had never been played before.) The whole event was was amasing and I'll remember it for a long time. So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out!

~FIN~

Another Denniston Goes

2009-11-02T13:26:00.000-08:00

First off I'd like to say that mom and I will be off the computer for a while our modem has died and we are internetless without it for a while.

Ok I'd like to announce some big news about me. I have been accepted to be in the all region honnor band! If I'm not mistaken I'm the third Denniston to go. I know De but I'm not sure about Andy. (You guys can back me up on this) So I'm verry excited and can't wait to go. So before I log-off I'd like to thank Meme and Joey for them letting me use Meme's Labtop and keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out!

~FIN~

Oink Oink

2009-10-16T00:12:00.000-07:00

There have been many worries at my school about the new pig of a virus called H1N1.(A.K.A. "Swine flu") So i'd like to tell you about my concerns on the this virus.

1) Halls Prices are going up.

2)Too many people have been snorting when they laugh

3)We're loosing stock of Oink-ment

4) The Hundred Acre Woods has been rebelling

5) It's 12:11 am and I'm making cheesy Swine flu jokes

~FIN~

The FEAST

2009-10-12T03:59:00.000-07:00

This year instead of going to AU Homecoming, Mom, Karri, Chelsi, and I went to help out my troop at The Feast of the Hunters Moon. My troop makes something called noodleables. If you've ever been there you might have tried it. But they are noodles (of course) with veggies like; Broccoli and Carrots and Cauliflower. There's also other things in them to, but I cant remember all of them.

We had a great time there. The most interesting part was getting in the parking lot. Karri was driving and the whole place was muddy, so when we went in the parking lot entrance, it was all muddy at first. So Karri drove the car right in the middle of the mud and got the car stuck. We got out thinking that we'd have to push the car with our old`fashioned clothes on. (you know the kinda clothes your great grandma or mom wore when they were young) Karri backed the car up and drove to the more grassy side of the entrance. So we didn't have to push.
We got to our both a little late but they hadn't even started selling yet. There was a big stove for the adults to cook the vegetables and noodles. Then there was a chopping station for the women to chop vegetables. Then there was this huge pot where I boiled the noodles.(I got a nickname there called "The Noodle Master") We had a fun time working there and it was only a 4 hour shift. So it went by fast.
Once our shift was over, we went around and looked at the booths for a while. We also got some food too. I had a 5lb turkey leg and Karri and Chelsi had a herbal pork chop. Mom went and got a cup of Carmel fried apples. We enjoyed it all. Then we went off to get the Buds Root beer that I had been wanting and headed home.
The feast was very nice and fun. When we picked Karri and Chelsi to go with us I was excited, because I know that we have little time left with them. So all and all it was a fun weekend. So anyways, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Denniston out!

Gaither TV

2009-10-10T15:14:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder, you can see an hours worth of Gaither videos each week on the Gaither TV panel on the side. Also you can see previous episodes in the post called JUST FOR KEEPS. I'll be archiving them in there. So please enjoy This week's video. Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Hass and Signature Sound: TOGETHER

Legends Through My Eyes

2009-10-09T18:22:00.000-07:00

You know when you look around thre are many people that have a lot of experience in something. Like my mom for example, she invested in 30 years of nursing. She in my mind is a legend. Also my Grandpa. He was a pastor for 35 years in the same church. Before his pastoring career, his family went to churches and sang. Another person that is a legend in my mind is my Boy Scout Committee Chairmen, Paul Delacroix. He's been into scouting since Gerald Ford was a Boy Scout. He knows so much about scouting and camping and lives for scouts. My last person that is a legend is my band teacher Mr. Burrows. He's been teaching for 36 years and is a very good director. My dream is to end up just like him. He's taught many people to love music and how to be apart of it. So these are a few that a legends, through my eyes.

~FIN~

Happy Birthday Mom!

2009-10-08T21:08:00.000-07:00

The Move is Removed

2009-10-07T21:02:00.000-07:00

I have come to the solution of not moving away from blogger. Blogger is a big piece of TME. It's been a home to it and i can't take that away so the will be no moving. (for right now)

~FIN~

Change it up

2009-10-02T14:48:00.000-07:00

O.K. were going to change this up a little bit. I'm going to go ahead and start blogging from the new site and then once the poll's over we'll see where to go. So again go to the top to see the new site then after you see it go vote!

~FIN~

Been thinking

2009-10-01T03:51:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking again and I need you help. I've been trying to decide if I want to move TME to a new blog system call Tumblr cause I love the way it's set up and I want to see what you think. So click on the link at the top of this page and look at the way TME could be then please vote if you would like TME to move or not.

~FIN~

Legend Buster-Cokelore

2009-09-24T17:56:00.000-07:00

This was one of my English projects last year and my 7th grade English teacher has been bugging me to put it on my blog so here it is.

This Month's Rundown: Algebra?????,Writing????????, All Region Band???????

2009-09-19T05:24:00.000-07:00

Hey every body. Sorry for not blogging recently but I've been too, TOO busy to write lately, so i'm giving you some of the highlights of whats been happening in my life this month.

I'll start out with Algebra. This year in math i'm taking pre-Algebra, and the work was super easy for me. So we called my teacher Mrs. Butler and asked if I could move to Algebra1. So what I did for her, was that i did the Algebra1 homework that week and looked at the book. Then the next week I took the Algebra1 test. The Result of my test was a 78, which was higher than more than half of the Algebra1 class. So the final result of me moving was decided to have me stay where i'm at and be an A+ student.

Next is the thing about writing. As I said in one of my last posts, one of my favorite things to do is to write. Well I got another opportunity to write. I'm working on my school newspaper team called "The Hot Dog Harold" . So right now a lot of my focus is on writing.

The last thing that's been going on is All Region Band. Mr. Burrows gave applications for All Region band, and the only the people that got the papers were the people he thought might have a chance to get accepted. So theres another thing that'll keep me busy in October.

So that's a little bit of whats been going on with me, and i hope to write more. So Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars. Until next time, I'm Isaac Denniston signing out!

~FIN~

Happy 10th Birthday Blogger

2009-09-08T18:42:00.000-07:00

I know this doesn't mean much to a lot of you, but it's blogger's 10th birthday and I'd like to say Happy Birthday blogger and thank you for the work you do for writers every where. From the TME committie we'd like to say Happy Birthday!

~FIN~

Happy Labor Day Every Body!

2009-09-07T09:29:00.000-07:00

Back to Nappannee

2009-09-07T06:08:00.000-07:00

Well it's been an interesting Sunday. We got up around 7am to get dressed and we got picked up around 8 by Grandma and we went to her house and there Aunt Mel picked us up to go to The Souls Family Reunion. So on the way we went to the First Church of God in Nappannee for Church. My family used to go to that church about 40 Years ago, when we went to the moon.

So after the service we went and said hi to a lot of people that they remember.(I didn't remember anybody cause the last time I was there was when My mom looked like this:) Scary isn't it.

I did stay with them though and I got to meet my mom's pastor that is either in his 90s or close to it. I also got to see another person that they knew 4o years ago. She owns a farm a lives there by herself and is 91. I just had fun looking at people and shaking their hands over there. Although I didn't find my fake yellow mic there.

~Part 1~

Isaac Denniston- Born with a pencil in one hand and a paper in the other

2009-09-05T16:28:00.000-07:00

My writing career did begin with TME. It began back in second grade.

In second grade we would have these times during the day where we got to "Free write". Where we would write about any thing we wanted to. One day I wrote about this butterfly that was in a big-snow, and he didn't have any where to go, so he stayed for the winter. Lets fast forward about a year and a half. I made a whole Novel called Days With Rocky and Nocky. A novel about a young caterpillar and a young butterfly having fun and experiencing the wonders of nature. My teachers loved it they even have a copy of the book.

Now I still did one more thing that involved writing. About 2-3 months before I started blogging, I wrote sports articles for Bleacher Report.(You can see them here) I had one article that was on their top 5 list for about 3 weeks.

After that I started blogging and I haven't regretted it. It's a pain sometimes but it's fun. So for the 84th time, Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars. Denniston out!

~FIN~

Brings Back Old Memories

2009-09-04T18:57:00.000-07:00

I remember watching these a long time ago...

The Fase Isn't over

2009-09-01T04:27:00.000-07:00

Happy Late Birthday Joie

2009-08-23T04:25:00.000-07:00

Well as you all know, i have a dog named Joie and some where in July was her birthday. well to tay after church we spent tons of time out side and then before it got dark wew took a walk and then we came back and i took pictures.
~fin~

Delarosa Drama

2009-08-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

Well I have another teacher that has a "Queen Bee" attitude, her name is Mrs. Delarosa. But this isn't about her attitude, Mrs. Delarosa has a reputation for have a lot of drama in her class. That tradition continues.

Yesterday,(Friday)there was a major meltdown in her class. Mrs Delarosa has these note cards on her podium that has all of our names on it and she writes points on them, extra credit points. We get those points for just answering questions right, but one thing she hates is when you answer "I don't Know." She says that when you say that it's like saying that your not going to try or care.

So during class we were grading our homework and she went and asked this kid a question and sure enough he says, "I don't know." I looked at Delarosa's face and saw her face start to clinch up and she says, "Excuse me?" He says "I don't know." Her face clinches up a lot more and she says,"When you say that it's like your not even trying..." and she starts going off like a machine gun and gets into how it's like respecting her and other stuff and he answers, "I don't care." Now her face is looking like a raisin. The guy had his feet on the chair in front of him and Mrs. D. says, "Get your feet off the chair!" He doesn't move nor budge. She repeats, nothing. She goes to the desk in front of him and pulls it away and tells him to get up. He stay in his char. Yelling, she repeats. He yells back,"I don't Care!" By now my teeth are planted into my finger. She tells him to go to the office and he starts for the door. Mrs D. slides in front of the door and closes it and says,"While your here you can stand right there." Mrs. D. stays in front of the door and there was a desk right where he was standing and he sits in it. She says, "I didn't tell you to sit" and he stays there. She says, again to get up but he stays in the seat. Mr.s D. flips the desk over and he falls out and gets up and calls her a... Now this blog is a family orientated blog so I'm not going so say the real words but lets picture the "F" word and put an "ing " in front of it and then he said the "B" word. Her reply was, "You've got problems, amigo." So she spends the rest of the class in front of the door and had people run the overhead and at the end of the class, she was in tears and said this, "What has just happened will never happen in this class again, cause I'm not going to let one individual in this class ruin your learning time. I want a certain individual in this class to know that i care for him, I care for all of you, and if you don't believe me then try me. I know you guys have the potential to pursue a great career and I'm not going to let that potential go to waste.

What Mrs. Delarosa said will stay with me forever. In Mr. Hollands Opus the principal told him that "A teacher has two jobs, one is to give knowledge and the other is to give that knowledge a compass.

I'm praying for the student and his life and for his compass to never get messed up.

~FIN~

The Queen Bee

2009-08-19T18:03:00.000-07:00

Well I'm back to school, finally made it to the 8Th grade. Now for all you people that went to FMS look back to 8Th grade and try to remember your math teacher. Does the name Butler ring a bell??? If it does just from looking at the title you probably know where I'm going.

Yes every body i have Mrs. Butler for my math teacher, or to some of you known as Patty. Anyway when we first sat down in her class she goes and bring a stuffed animal, not just a stuffed animal but a Bee, yes a bee. She says her first 3 words, they are: "I am the queen bee". now let me go back to when we sat in our seats. I was one of the last to get in the room and there were only a few seats left. Well one of them was the one in front of her podium. Without thinking i sat in that seat not knowing what was coming. OK lets fast forward. Her first words were that and she goes into how she is the ruler in this classroom, what ever she says, GOES!!!!

So by the end of class my heart is pounding out of my chest and felt like it was going to end up like the Challenger. So i made it my goal this year to get on Mrs. Butlers good side, and that is a long path away.

So keep your feet on the ground and keep your heart connected and inside your chest. Denniston out!!!!!!

~FIN~

JUST FOR KEEPS

2009-08-19T15:54:00.000-07:00

I'm just posting this video so that i can come back to it cause i have to change the "Featured Gaither Video Of The Week"

Canadian Homecoming

Dream on

Together- Ernie Hass and Signature Sound and The Gaither Vocal Band

Not The Way To Be

2009-08-18T07:33:00.000-07:00

Well everybody, here comes my last post before school. Speaking of school if look beside this post you can see the countdown before my hours of terror starts. Also beside is the poll vote if you like the new template.

OK, This past week well actually go back to the first Friday in august. I had been sneezing all day and figured out that i had a cold. Still today i have a runny nose. Then Saturday evening i did not feel good to my stomach and i ended up getting sick Sunday morning and skipping church.

This is not how my last days of summer are supposed to be. I should be dancing around anxious for School, but I'm moping around not looking forward to getting up at 7 tomorrow but I'll survive.

Scratch That

2009-08-03T21:41:00.000-07:00

O.k. I said i got a new show that I'm addicted too, lets "Scratch that". I'm in LOVE with the Gaither Vocal band and Bill and Mark's comedies. Things like "Cool Water" and "Jesus on The Mainline" or just the classics like "Satisfied" here's what I'm talking about.

This evning mom and i sang satisfied tons of times. I hate to say this but i need help badly to get away from this cause i'm definrtly adicted. So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston Out.

~FIN~

We are Back online!

2009-08-01T05:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday while mom was at work she pulled up the weird e-mail that was causeing us trouble. It said to click on a link and it will some how tell you if you do or do not have the worm. So she got back home and we connected the internet again and we ran the check and it came out negative. The thing was weird it was like if you see all 6 icons your computer is running fine. So it looked like this.
So I'd like to thank Meme and Joey, also Verizon wireless for helping me during these times of pain. But thanks to Chris and Mom we're back, but that mobile blogging was neat. I might try that again. Anyways Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars Denniston Out.

~FIN~

Gaither Fanatic

2009-07-30T09:37:00.000-07:00

Well a few months ago I had said about how I love the show Jobn and Kate plus 8... well we all know how that went. I've noticed that every time I get into a show something bad happens to it. So now I think Ipick a show where the worst that can happen is death.

About a month ago Garandma and Grandpa told me about a new channel on dish network called the Insperation channel, which is filled with christan things in it. One of the things they pointed out was The Gaither Gospel Hour. Well mom and I found the channel on our TV and guess what... IM ADICTED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I found a show where nothing bad can happen to it! It's fun whatching all the homecomings at 2:00 and 4:00 on weekdays. The only thing that's happend is mark's hair turned grey, but Bill's hair is past that. It's now an orangish color and it looks like it's rotting. If he scraches it it mighit fall off.

Anyways I think I can get away from the Jon and Kate plus 8 tragity, as long as i have the Gaithers. So Keep your feet on the ground and keep looking for the.... wait it's reaching isn't it? umm... Denniston Out!!!!

~FIN~

2009-07-30T09:29:00.001-07:00

Since we're having internet problems i will be trying mobile bloging where i text a blog post from my phone. ~FIN~

Blog Shortage

2009-07-28T19:25:00.000-07:00

This is hard for me to say, but my blog will not be updated for a while, a few weeks, few days, a few months i don't know but as of right now my blog will be on hold.

Just recently my mom's been getting a few e-mails that concerned her so we called the Tech Geek of the family Dr. Lenox (Chris) and he said that we have a worm in our internet that is very harmful. So we have to not get on our internet until he gets time to come down here and look at our computer.

So it looks like I'll not be blogging for a while, But there are some other great websites. Look at my Blog list and my link list. So Keep your feet on the ground and keep surfin' the internet. Denniston out:)

~FIN~

1year aniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-25T19:00:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the podcast going over the time limit and for all the rest of the things that went wrong. The podcast crew has decided never to do a live podcast again or if we do it will be recorded on something else but, to make up for the fiasco of the podcast I'll actually say something this time.

One year ago I was looking at a blog called "Adding New Words To My Old Melody" and I thought it looked fun to have a blog. So then and there I created a blogger account and created a blog. Through My Eyes was born a year ago today at 6:11 and it started with the post about when we lost Joie. Through My Eyes has helped my writing capability in a lot of was and it mostly helped me express my self and keep the family posted on whats been going on.

It's hard to belive that i've been doing this for a whole year and have 1,012 page views and 664 visitors but for the 71st time, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! Denniston out.

~Happy Birthday Through My Eyes~
~Fin~

Skyler's Back

2009-07-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

Skyler Has come to visit for a while so we've had some fun.

Yesterday I came over to Meme and Joey's and Skyler came down and we played Guitar Hero. I think there was something wrong with my guitar, cause she beat the crap out of me.

Anyways, it was fun playing with her again and it took me back to those few years when the kids would go to their Mom's and it would just be Skyler and I the rest of the day... good times, good times.

~FIN~

Back to Meme's

2009-07-18T05:51:00.000-07:00

This past week I went down to Joel and Kathy's (Meme) house to help with the kids while the other kids are in Gerorga. So we've had some fun this past week.

Through My Eyes

How did we pull that off?

Friday the 13th weekend

"The Tragedy of Earl Casgrove"

"Old Scottish Melody"

Merry Christmas

What a Great Family Weekend

Time with the Buddies

Band Night at DQ

This week's rundown (at least for me)

4 years already!

Encouraging Tragedy

It All Goes Back To Grandpa

AU MUSIC EDU: Day 1!!!!

AU MUSIC EDU CAMP: Opening day

Through My Eyes Summer!!!!!

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Ummm yeah...

No Ordinary Book

HA it only took 3 years

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #7

Silly Songs With Isaac- The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #6

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #5

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #4

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode #3

Mr. Denniston show-Episode #2

The Mr. Denniston Show- Episode 1

To Help you out

Remember the Podcasts?

Doggie Sleepover

One thing a 3 year old and i have in common

THROUGH MY EYES INC.

It's Still Through My Eyes (More About the Name Change)

Well I was Beat to the Punch

One of many

UPDATE SERIES™: † Church Life†

UPDATE SERIES™: After school activities

UPDATE SERIES™:♪Band♫

Updates, Rundowns, Wrap-ups... What ever you want to call them

Well Let's Wrap-up the past 2 months and update them

Freshman? What?

Updates.. How fun

My Grandparents :) I Love Them!!!!

I'm Back

As it comes to an end

It`s Only Just Begun

Changes Again??

This is for Chris H.

V A C A T I O N ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Music Vs. Words

A Funny Way to Start Off Your Sunday

Counting-down the days

Home Movies

What is with this template?

Through-out all of life

The last day (FMS)

A-lot Can Change and Happen in a Year

FMS Has Got Tallent (2010)

An Easter Melody

Temporary Home

TME is back!

DEATH -NOT A PRETTY PICTURE

Don't you love Facebook

1,000

Lets say Thanks!

Merry Christmas from Diane, Joey, and Isaac

100th post

What a blast, What a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Denniston Goes

Oink Oink

The FEAST

Gaither TV

Legends Through My Eyes

Happy Birthday Mom!

The Move is Removed

Change it up

Been thinking

Legend Buster-Cokelore

This Month's Rundown: Algebra?????,Writing????????, All Region Band???????

Happy 10th Birthday Blogger

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