November

November was a busy month!  I played in a concert with the Idaho Falls Symphony, we hosted Thanksgiving, and everyone got sick.  So here are the highlights!

I came in to check on the girls one night and found Mia like this.  She always sleeps in the weirdest positions.  Here she is half off the bed.  And that is a play sword sticking out of the side of her bed.  My kids all like to stuff so much crap on their beds at night that there's hardly any room for them.

I had a lot of fun playing in the concert!  They weren't my favorite pieces to play, but it was a good experience.  I feel like this year I've been doing a better job at being prepared for concerts.  Not because I didn't practice in the past, but I'm just better able to focus while I'm practicing because I can do it during the day when my kids are gone.  My brother has been playing with the symphony this year, and I noticed how similar him and the other bassist look!  The other bassist has long hair, an earring, and is kind of a hipster, but take that away and they're basically the same person!

Every so often when I look at my phone I see that I've got a million pictures my girls have taken of themselves.  I get annoyed sometimes because I feel like I have to go through and delete them all, but then I realize I know I'll miss it when I open up my phone and I don't have those pictures.  I stopped deleting all of them and keep a few so I can always remember it. ;)

I could kiss her face all day.

Ava is made of jello.  I don't understand how she gets her body into such weird positions.

This picture made me buffaw.

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year.  We had my parents and my brother and his family over.  Everyone was sick, so that was fun.  Not so sick that we were all throwing up, but everyone's voice dropped half an octave and we went through a lot of tissues!  I normally hate cooking, but I like doing Thanksgiving.  It was very relaxed and we were able to talk while the kids played and we had some good food.  I also got to take my mom's new car for a spin around the block, so that was fun!  I've never driven a car with that low of mileage.  It made me very jealous!  It didn't make weird noises when you turned the corner and all the doors opened and shut without any problems!  Oh well, maybe in a few years I can upgrade!

This week the kids went back to school.  A couple of us have a little bit of a lingering cough, but we're mostly back to normal.  Now I'm starting to feel the pressure of getting Christmas ready!  I got the lights up on the house, but no other Christmas decorations yet.  Hopefully this weekend!