November Wrap-up

Evelyn was so excited to play in the snow on the day of the first real snowfall

Jared had a snake on his face from a Cub Scout Carnival.  

Jared has been working soooo hard on the piano lately.  He just finished level 2 and has begun level 3 in the Bastien books.  Here he is playing a simplified form of The Entertainer, several days before I passed it off.  

This picture was taken on the last Sunday in November.  Grandma Stout bought the girls cute new Christmas dresses, and Jared reluctantly agreed to wear his suit jacket.  I see he is not wearing the tie, however.

Maggie is a superb reader now and isn't too bad with her phonetic spelling, either:

Alan and I went to an adult masquerade ball in November for a birthday party for Alan's friend Jeremy.  We had fun dressing up (I wore my old choir dress from high school.) Darth Vader came as a special guest.  He was so tall, and the voice-changer in his mask was extremely realistic!

 A couple of days after Thanksgiving we met up for dinner with two of Alan's best friends from high school and their wives, Ammon and Jes, and Matt and Kat.  It was super fun to catch up with them again.