Band

Tyler's band has a lot of fun activities and performances planned this year now that they are back in person.

Tyler was recently Principal Player
of the Week and showed up
on the band's Facebook page

Tyler is the tuba player in the green and black shirt.
Here they are rehearsing the evening before playing
a pep performance as students arrived to school on Football Friday.

The Circus

It was Girl Scout night at the Shriner's Circus on Friday night so Daphne and I had to go check it out with some of her troop members.

Clowns were everywhere! Ariana and Evelyn were really
excited about having them autograph the program/coloring
book. Daphne kept her distance.

The girls rode an elephant before the show.

Daphne

Ariana

Evelyn

Daphne's favorite part of the show was when they
shot a guy out of the cannon.

I really enjoyed watching the girls go wild and dance to Gangnam Style!

Major League Soccer in Austin

We finally made it out to an Austin FC match during their inaugural season. We found it only fitting to watch them play the Portland Timbers. Austin dominated from the beginning and easily won 3 - 1.

The new stadium is really nice

Tyler brought his buddy Luke to the game

View from our seats

The real fans were sitting at this end and leading
chants and beating drums throughout the game

Back to School

The kids went back to school today. Hard to believe that their summer break is already over!

First day of 4th grade

First day of 7th grade

Black Crowes Concert

We took the kids to see the Black Crowes play at the amphitheater at COTA last night. The kids were bored by the end but Michael and I really enjoyed it. They played the Shake Your Moneymaker album in its entirety plus a bunch of their other songs. We were worried the concert would be canceled because there were thunderstorms earlier in the day but it ended up being a great night for an outdoor concert.

Relaxing on the lawn before the opening band, Dirty Honey

A beautiful rainbow appeared between bands 

Monkeying around between bands

The Black Crowes

Tuba

It's a good thing Tyler grew a lot last year because his tuba grew too! He started last school year playing the French horn, switched to the euphonium, and then landed on the baby tuba. This school year he's moved up to the next size tuba. He is lucky that his school keeps extra tubas at school so that he doesn't have to lug this bad boy to and from school on the bus.

Caught Napping

I still can't resist taking photos of sleeping kids! We've been making the kids get up earlier to get ready for back to school; however, we keep finding Tyler napping in the afternoon.