Marching Band 2020!

Clark, Cal and Shanna had a different marching band season but there were able to have one!  They did once performance for families.  Afterwards lots of pictures were taken!  I guess they are going to have marching band in the spring depending on how all this COVID stuff plays out.  Since they have to practice outside if there was a 50% chance of rain practice was cancelled. And several of the practices were cancelled.  But they had a fun performance and I'm glad Clark especially could do marching band his senior year.

The actual performance.  I did a zoom call and my parents and the Petersons were able to watch. 

If you haven't guessed yet, Shanna is on the color guard team. 

It was cute, Elden asked to get a picture with Cal. 

Clark and his band teacher Mr. "A". 

The pit crew again.

A couple more pictures of Lee's bike rides. 

Our friends invited us to their house to carve pumpkins and have dinner.  They have a pumpkin patch right across the the street from them! We walked over, picked out some pumpkins and bought some apple cinnamon donuts. 

Our friends, the Whitings, recently bought a farm.  They have three silos on their property.  Lee, Clark and I climbed to the top.  After I climbed to the top I realized I wasn't supposed to overexert myself that day as I had given blood.  Oops.  Oh well, all turned out fine.  And this time giving blood went great!  The iodine was great on my skin--no rash!!!  And I got a $5 gift card too which was fun. 

We had a great view of the valley!

Cal and Shanna climbed up to the middle one and Elden climbed up the smallest silo. 

Time for pumpkin carving!

Shanna found quite an interesting pumpkin!

Clark turned his gourd into a two headed thing. 

We had a fun time visiting with them and carving pumpkins!

I thought this was a fun picture Lee took of part of our downtown.

The other marching band performance was a "county showcase" with all the high school bands in the county school district. The band director got us senior parents in as "pit crew" help.  It was great to go to the second performane.  This one I recorded and posted on YouTube.

We loved seeing them perform!  It will be interesting to see what happens this spring.  

Cal took it upon himself to write to one of the higher-ups in the Nequik department. Wonder if he'll hear back from him. 

The Secret is Out

Happy Fall!  We are well into this season and I can't believe Thanksgiving and Christmas will soon be upon us!

I found this recently in some stuff upstairs..... I had to open it, haha.

I thought it was funny and I was shocked that Cal had kept this!  He is a Nesquik advocate and lover and never thought he would ever have yoohoo stuff stashed away!

A fun art creation by Haley. 

Lee captures some beautiful moments on his bike rides!   

A lady visiting the Massanutten resort either forgot her contacts or lost them.  She went to Lee's office and inquired about some solutions and Lee gave her a free trial pair.  She was very grateful and sent this to Lee's office!  So sweet!

The view from the back of Lee's office. 

More bike ride beauty. 

Lee took Haley and Elden on a bike ride one night while the other kids were at marching band.

We took a little bike ride trip with the kids.  We went to Reddish Knob.  It is on the boarder of Virginia and West Virginia with an amazing view.  Lee and the kids rode about 7 or 8 miles down the road and I followed in the truck to pick them up. 

A couple of the kids didn't want to go but when it was time to go, everyone decided to go. 

I altered a shirt that I recently bought and I'm glad I took the few minutes to do so.  It turned out great!

I decided to run my only little half marathon recently.  Technically it wasn't a marathon becuase it wasn't a race, but Lee says I won.  I had never run 13.1 miles and while I was running I could have gone even further.  Lee suprised me with ballons, flowers and ice cream!

I was determined to run the entire time.  I had to stop once to adjust my leggings.  I called Shanna while I was out (without stopping) and asked if she would put some water on the hood of the Chevy because I knew I'd be thirsty. She did so, which was awesome.  I tried to run and drink it but I was sloshing water.  So I just stopped to drink it.  Now I'm thinking of jogging my own personal marathon in the spring.  I have the trail all picked out too.