Marching band and a puppy

 

 Ben's now in High School.  I know I can't believe it either! And his first activity for the year is Marching band.  As you can see he plays the Trumpet.  I guess I'm going to have a lot of musicians in our family thanks to the 5th grade band program.  Which by the way, Sam is starting this year.  He's going to learn the Alto Sax, and he's really excited! 

The last week of summer vacation, Ben had summer band camp.  It was a chance to meet everyone, learn the songs they'll be playing that year, and also meet the new Band Director.  Yup, we got a new band director.  He's fresh out of college and eager to start his first job.  He seems very nice and the kids really like him.  I thought of taking a picture of him too to add to this, but I wasn't sure how to do it very discreetly, I didn't want to make him nervous or anything.  At the end of camp they had a performance for the parents and anyone who wanted to come.  It was fun and they all did a great job.

 

  A couple of weeks later, the night before the first home football game, they had a dress rehearsal, So I think he looked so good in his uniform.  Also, he is wearing Amber's hat that she wore all through high School, I thought that was cool. They all did  great and sounded better than they did at the first performance.  Not that they sounded bad, but you could tell they had been practicing really hard in the last couple of weeks.   

 

 

Ben is the one in the front on the left.  Waiting for the start. 

 

 

 

Killing time while the band director is talking to us parents.  You know, I have a lot of pictures of Ben and his tongue. Why does he do that?

 

 

Well the pups are old enough now to leave the mom, and last week we sold Max.  So we are left with Wiggins, who is the newest member of the family.  Which we are all enjoying.  He likes to bite on your ankles though.