Our Budding Family Band

On Sunday I witnessed a sweet situation--Jumble and Minnie playing music together, down in Jumble's basement retreat (I say retreat--not bedroom--because it is a HUGE room.) I don't think they have ever played together before so I snapped a photo of the event. Jumble is being a pill about getting her photo taken lately, so that is why this photo doesn't show their beautiful faces. I had to sneak the photo from the hall without warning. Jet says he wants to play the trumpet. Atom, of course, wants to be the drum major! (He has been leading the Tabernacle Choir since he was 18 months old, after all. I bought him a musical baton for Christmas when he was 2-years-old and it is still one of his favorite toys!) Atom pointed the drum majors out to me the first time we watched the marching band play. He doesn't realize he has to learn an instrument first, and be one of the best at it, to be the drum major. So we'll just have to wait until he is older to find out what he'll choose to play. When we ask him what instrument he wants to play right now, he waves his arms in imitation of the drum major!

Speaking of Jumble and photos, here are a few that we got of her (under protest) after the band performed in St. George at the Red Rocks Invitational the night before the Las Vegas BOA Regional Championships. They took 1st Place in their division and swept all categories at this competition as well as Regionals the next day.

I took this terribly off-center photo of Niles with Jumble. My excuse is that the camera batteries were dying and I'd forgotten to bring an extra set with us. So you had to turn the camera on and quickly push the shutter before the camera turned off again.



As you can see, Niles managed to center the one of me with Jumble, despite the camera difficulty! Both Niles and I hate being in photos, as well as Jumble, but we will sacrifice our desires every so often when the event is important enough. I absolutely HATE this photo of myself but I'm being unselfish and posting it since it wouldn't be fair to Niles to just post the photo of him with Jumble. And I am very glad that I got to be there to see Jumble perform with her band--it was totally worth not getting to bed until 5:00 the next morning and only getting 4 hours of sleep before we had to get up and go for the day!