Fall miscellany

 Swallowing a rainbow: Tuesday, August 29

Rebekah pretends to eat the rainbow visible from our driveway.

 Tasty burger: Wednesday, August 30

Rebekah poses with her Crown Burger in Utah. Andrea and Rebekah went to Utah for a couple of days so Andrea could have lunch with a few of her college roommates. We stayed at Aunt Susan's house overnight.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple: Thursday, August 31

Rebekah and Andrea pose outside the Oquirrh Mountain Temple on that same quick Utah trip.

 Black beauty: Thursday, September 7

Rebekah shows off an amazing find at D.I.

Eastern Idaho State Fair: Saturday, September 9

Andrea, Winnie, Ana and Seth check out the petting zoo at the fair. Rebekah had just moved to college, and Miriam opted to stay home.

 Sub selfie: Thursday, September 14

Andrea before heading out for her first sub job of the year: a half-day at BHS choir.

Idaho Falls Symphony in the Park: Saturday, September 16

Miriam and Andrea at the annual outdoor concert at Freeman Park. We ate Pitmaster Barbecue and listened to the symphony play some popular Broadway tunes.

 Cat hat: Monday, September 18

Toad wears the hat Winnie wove for him on her loom.

Homecoming parade: Friday, September 22

Ana waves from the ballroom float during the annual homecoming parade.

McKall poses with the mysterious can of liquid we received from one of the homecoming floats. Seth and Andrea watched the parade at Summit Hills Elementary and found McKall (who teaches 1st grade there) so we could stand by her and visit for a minute.

Furry friends: Friday, September 22

Peach and Toad nap on their mat in the shop.

Tautphaus Park Zoo: Saturday, September 23

Winnie gets up close and personal to the serval.

Seth, Andrea and Winnie swing near the penguins.

Andrea and Winnie on the swing. Rebekah had received free passes to the zoo for playing a gig there with the Jazz House Big Band. She used one ticket to go on a date with another friend who also had free passes. We used the other three passes for us.

Dying pants and snuggling a cat: Monday, September 25

Ana dyes fringe pants for her Latin open costume.

Andrea and Toad hang out on the porch swing.

D.I. treasures: Friday, September 29

Seth and Rebekah pose with the awesome masks they found while shopping at D.I.

BYU-Idaho date: Thursday, October 5

Ana and Andrea in the jungle room at the BYU-Idaho greenhouses.

Posing with some of the apples we picked at the orchard where we also ate our picnic dinner.

Ana and Andrea meeting up with Rebekah at a jazz jam session in the Snow building. We were just stopping by to hide some homemade goodies in Rebekah's instrument locker when we heard music coming from one of the rooms and investigated. We found Rebekah there.

Blast Off! date: Saturday, October 7

Miriam tries her hand at the claw machine while Winnie and Seth watch.

Eating Orange Leaf after playing laser tag, rock climbing, mini golfing, air hockeying and arcading at Blass Off!

Shirt cat: Saturday, October 7

Miriam smuggles Toad into the house and her shirt.

Bring a stuffed animal to work day: Wednesday, October 11

Seth poses with his Cthulhu doll that Rebekah crocheted. Seth and his coworkers had a contest for the best stuffed animal, and Seth won. 

NJHS induction: Wednesday, October 11

Miriam is inducted into Praxium's chapter of the National Junior Honor Society during a ceremony at the Rocky Mountain auditorium.

Vaccination lag: Friday, October 13

Ana sleeps on the couch after getting her COVID booster the day before. Those seem to hit her hard. She stayed home from school that day.

Peach porch time: Saturday, October 14

Ana, Winnie and Miriam hang out with Peach on the porch swing.

Winnie's handicrafts: Sunday, October 15

The family shows off the hats and socks Winnie made for us on her loom.

Pocket cat: Saturday, October 21

Toad fits nicely into Ana's oversized hoodie pocket.

Fairview T-shirt quilt: Wednesday, October 25

The T-shirt quilt that I made (Frances Merrill quilted it for me) to donate to the school's fall carnival silent auction.

Back to BYU-I: Thursday, October 26

Ana carefully pores over all the minerals and gems in the Romney building. We went back to BYU-Idaho because when we had our date there earlier in the month, the planetarium show was sold out. Ana really wanted to learn about black holes, so we came back up only to find out that the show was sold out again despite us arriving earlier to get tickets. Luckily they had a second showing that we were able to make. 

Corn maze: Friday, October 27

Andrea and Winnie pose at the New Sweden Farm corn maze. Andrea dropped her credit card somewhere (not in the maze) and had to pick it up later once she realized it was missing.

Shoulder cat: Friday, November 3

Toad on Seth's shoulders in the shop.

Stake dance: Friday, November 10

Seth DJs a stake dance at the Kearney Building. The stake YM and YW presidencies asked if he could do it rather than paying $600 for a professional DJ.

Dylan gets a body: Saturday, November 11

Our mannequin head (named Dylan) perches atop Winnie's head.

Warm cat: Saturday, November 11

Toad stretches out on the heated mat in the shop.

Cat (and dog) nap: Sunday, November 12

Peach, Toad and Seth nap in the back yard after church.

Saturday chores: Saturday, November 18

Ana bakes delicious goodies on a Saturday.

Winnie vacuums the stairs.

Miriam dusts the entryway.

Dibs: Sunday, November 19

Ana preserves her choice of leftovers for lunch after church by keeping them in her pocket.

Peach loves: Sunday, November 19

Peach licks Seth's head in the shop.

Fall concerts and performances

Dance and band. So much of our lives revolve around them. We don't have marching band competitions or halftime shows to go to this year, but Rebekah had several concerts in Rexburg to make up for it.

Ana at halftime: Friday, October 6

This year the white team's routine is a medley from Guardians of the Galaxy. The girls were supposed to have Mantis costumes from Amazon, but they turned out to be cheap and laughable, so they put together these high-octane costumes. Ana says dancing in pleather is undesirable.

Ana with the team before their performance.

Dancing on the field

Ana and Miriam at Festival of Trees: Monday, November 13

I couldn't shoot pictures for several weeks because my arm was in a sling after my rotator cuff surgery, so it was nice of Grandpa Scott to shoot pictures at this annual event.

Ana dancing their Guardians of the Galaxy medley with white team.

Ana dancing a Jackson Five medley with the Mini Bees.

Miriam dancing "Can't Stop the Feelin'" with her Stingers team.

Ana dancing "Divas and Dorks" with gold team.

Rebekah with symphony orchestra: Tuesday, November 14

Parents, grandparents, sometimes a great-grandma and sometimes sisters went to Rexburg to hear Rebekah's concerts.

Rebekah playing second trombone during their performance in the Barrus Concert Hall. The symphony orchestra also performed on Thursday, October 12 and Saturday, December 2 as part of the huge BYU-Idaho Christmas concert with guest performer Adassa.

Miriam with RMMS band: Wednesday, November 15

Miriam performed with the concert band, symphonic band and percussion ensemble at this end-of-trimester concert in the RMMS auditorium.

Miriam petitioning the patrons of the concert to donate money to the band program so they could buy a new xylophone that didn't give the student fiberglass splinters.

Miriam performing with the band.

Rebekah with chamber brass: Thursday, November 16

Rebekah played with a brass quintet in the Snow Recital Hall. She also played with Sound Alliance (the auditioned jazz band at BYU-I) for a masquerade and a family Christmas concert. We don't have pictures from those.

Grandma and Grandpa Scott talk with Rebekah following her chamber brass recital.

Rebekah posing with the members of her quintet. Rebekah found out that she beat out a senior trombone player for a spot in the top quartet this semester. She said the music for this recital was the hardest she had to learn this semester.