The Geerdts Family Blog
Trevor’s high school percussion ensemble played several pieces at the Night of Percussion held at Kettle Moraine Lutheran. You can watch the videos of Rapid Transit, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, and Mujer Latina below.
Read More Lakeside Percussion plays at Kettle Moraine
Dan likes to watch Justice clean his paw. Here’s a video where you can enjoy the calming, soothing, oddly satisfying activity. Enjoy..!
Read More He’s Cleaning He’s Paw
We purchased a broom ball set and goals for playing on the frozen lake. This afternoon we got out the snowblower and shovels and cleared a nice big rink area for playing broom ball. It turned out really nice. We just need some more people to play broom ball because it’s a lot of exercise …
Read More Broomball Rink – Our First One
Today was the annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival on the other side of the lake. Jen and Dan snowshoed across the frozen lake to the Icehenge. The Icehenge is a “monument” built from ice blocks cut out of the lake. It looks really cool in the sunlight, but today was foggy because the temps were close …
Read More Snowshoeing to the Icehenge
Calvin decided he wanted to start ice skating to school. Today was the first day he did. The trip is 1.5 miles one way across the frozen lake, and it took him 15 minutes to skate that distance today. His high school owns a small lake lot, which is a great place to change from …
Read More Calvin Skates to School
This afternoon was the Fall Concert for the Lakeside Band. Trevor plays percussion (tenor drums) and Calvin plays trumpet. You can watch the performance in the videos that follow the pictures below. And last but not least, here is the final performance of Estancia. This was played by the band for the all their summer …
Read More Lakeside Fall Concert
Our newly remodeled lake home is finally ready for us to move in. Here are some pictures before the moving truck arrived. When you enter our home, you can go up to the main level, or down to the media room and lower level. Going up to the main level gives you a view all …
Read More Our New Home
Now that Calvin is a freshman in high school, he plays as starting goal keeper on the JV soccer team. They have played three games so far, and are still looking for their first win. The games have been close, and the last two were only lost by one goal. Here are some pictures of …
Read More JV and Varsity Soccer 2018
Today our high school marching band performed in Darlington, WI. The video below is spliced together from two different cameras. Enjoy..! The percussion section had a bonus opportunity to T-pose Bucky Badger as he walked by during warm up..!
Read More Darlington Parade 2018
Trevor and Calvin’s high school marching band performed at the 2018 Appleton Flag Day Parade. The weather was in the low 70’s which is very good for a parade. Check out the video of the cadence and the drill below.
Read More Appleton Flag Day Parade 2018