Random Activities

Besides Marching Band, which basically consumes our life this time of year, here are some of the other things we've been up to:

Here is Minnie with our spaghetti with "eye balls" that we had on Halloween.

Minnie is Alice the vampire from Twilight, if you know who that is. (If you don't know, she wears stylish clothes, not scary ones.) Jet is Harry Potter and Atom is the modern version of GI Joe. Niles and Jumble were at a band competition in Logan. We had a trunk or treat at the church the week before Halloween. Then on Halloween we went trick or treating in our neighborhood and then went to hang out with the cousins at Tim & Rachelle's house for a little while. The kids had a great time!

The annual Band Bash was held at the American Fork High School gym on November 3rd. It used to be for all the bands in the AF band program, but now it no longer includes the elementary and intermediate bands because there just isn't room for them! This concert includes Jr. High Cadet Band, Concert Band (Minnie's group), Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble and the High School Concert Band, Symphonic Band (Jumble's group), Wind Symphony, and Marching Band (Jumble's other group.) Each band plays one piece, except the Cadet Band that plays about three really short pieces and the marching band which plays their whole show (3 movements this year.) It is crowded, but lots of great music and it is fun to see how the kids advance as they go up through the bands.

This is Jumble in the center of the photo with Symphonic Band (next to the girl with glowing eyes!)

Here is Minnie in the center of two of her friends: Samantha on the left and Kristen on the right. They are getting ready to play their flutes with Concert Band. It was a very enjoyable evening.

Another thing I am doing these days is babysitting two little girls. (I think I mentioned this once before.) Tiffany is almost 2 and I have her every day until early afternoon. Courtney is 2 months old and I usually have her early afternoon to dinner time two days a week and morning to early afternoon one day a week. This is Jumble holding Courtney. Jumble and Minnie both really like having little ones around to help take care of, and I am enjoying it, too.