Holiday Cheer, and Dog in Snow

A few thing just needed to put out there for documenting purposes.

First off:

The boys school performances. 

Mitch had his Middle School band concert while Grandpa was in town.

 I was able to take pics while Grandpa video tapped. It was very nice. 

Especially the part when the entire band and audience had to wait for Mitch

 to walk all the way back over to his music stand, 

grab his music, 

and then walk all the way back to where he was supposed to be standing.

 Then what does Mitch do? 

He starts flipping through his music book.

 Causing the band leader to again pause and wait for Mitch to stand still...

 We stayed for the whole concert. The high school band and jazz bands played to. 

This gal sang Santa Baby...

The next day we had Brayden's Holiday performance. He was less than enthusiastic the whole time. He rolled his eyes and had a smug face. It was painful to watch. 

I was trying to get him to smile. We had gotten there "just" in time. So there was no seating. We had to stand out in the foyer of the gym. Luckily we were still able to see Bray (and his faces...) and I brought my zoom lens.

This was our view from the hallway...

Secondly:

Just wanted to mention how much Cosmo loves the snow.

He is such a funny dog. He goes crazy out in the snow. I tried to take some pictures of him running from one side of the yard to the next...

 This is when Cosmo is inside, and the boys are outside playing in the snow...

One sad puppy.

 Our handsome boy!

And the last thing I wanted to document...

We AGAIN spent Christmas in Portland, instead of here at home.

It doesn't bother us too much.

As long as we are together it really doesn't matter.

That being said. We put a small tree up at the apartment to help it feel like Christmas.

And we needed somewhere to put the presents. Last year we had purchased our little tree when we spent Christmas at the Shilo Inn.

Haha! Our kids are used to just rolling with it, that's for sure.

Brayden and August had a great time decorating.

Whew!

I'm kind of ready for the New Year.

Hello 2014