What We've Been Up to Lately, Part 2

Marching band season is quickly coming to a close. We so enjoy watching Tyler march. He takes it so seriously and works very hard at it. Our last home game was last Friday. Our last regular season game is tomorrow. We made it into the playoffs, so we will have at least one more game next week. We enjoyed having Ron's parents and my mom, Jack, and Ron watch the home games with us. The weather was unseasonably warm most of the time, and it was just a nice atmosphere.

The band participated in a band show on Saturday. Tyler's band is considered a showcase band, as opposed to a competition band. The band show included other bands in the same category. It was a really fun evening with a lot of great entertainment. Here is my favorite song from our band's performance that night.

Our band director went to high school at one of the schools in our conference. That school's band was also in the show. When the show was over, our band and that school's band took the field to perform 2 songs together. They stood still for one song, but here is the song they marched to. They practiced together twice before performing it at a football game a few weeks ago but haven't practiced together since. I love it.

Danielle had a softball tournament the same day but she and Ron rushed over to make it in time for the show. The three of us had a really nice time watching the show and Tyler, and Tyler enjoyed performing. It was a great night.

In addition to band and softball (which I will address in the next post), Ron has been keeping himself busy with fishing. He decided after vacation that he wanted to learn to bass fish, so he has. I admire the way he learns a new skill. In this case it's fishing, but I've observed this is how he handles most situations when he wants to learn or improve. He gathers as much information as he can - online resources, videos, asking experts, social media, talking to friends, etc. - tries to apply the information he's gathered, and then makes adjustments based on his own experiences. I am impressed with his patience. His bass fishing has improved considerably over the past couple months. Here is his latest and greatest. It's kind of hard to tell in the picture, but most of the fish is actually on the ground next to his shoe - his size 13 shoe! He weighed it; It was a 5lb monster! He was pretty proud of himself.