Stream of Consciousness

 

I'm a little on the scattered side of things today.  Prepare for an entry along the same lines. 

Anni's big Christmas present came in a big box.  The perfect place to color to her little heart's content.  It's the first time I've really seen her going to town with the crayons... I kind of love it.

One day we just decided to decorate.  Our tree is a little bit on the Charlie brown side of things.  Why, you ask?  Because the first year we put it away, we somehow lost a leg and each year after we've tried to compensate for it with heavy books to balance the tree out.  This year, we had to graduate to bricks... except those bricks broke off another leg.  Now our tree is leaning against the wall, waiting for a new stand.

But some pretty bokeh fixes that, right?

On Sunday we drove four hours through the mountains to Mesa State University to watch a friend play percussion in their Christmas concert.

The view made the drive totally worth it.

And this little girl?  Was a total trooper.  We remembered the baby this time, and she cuddled and "shushed" her to sleep.

She very briefly stayed in her seat to watch the show... but a good portion of the time we sat outside the doors and she clapped as the performers ran out to get ready for the next part of the show.  However, she did fall asleep near the end, so both Daniel and I got to watch Erika work her magic as she ran from instrument to instrument.

 

You can see her in the very back middle peeking over the rest of the band.  It was a lot of fun!

After a rather large dinner, we made the four hour drive back home, admiring the same mountains in the moonlight.  It was beautiful.

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