Jane Band Concert and Winter Chorus Concert

Jane also had a winter band concert. She decided to play trumpet this year and has done a great job learning and practicing!

Annie came to watch!

So did Gaby!

And then later Jane had a winter chorus concert:

She also did a great job, here! So many concerts to attend in the month of December. Thankfully, this last one was in January...

Jane with Ella, Addie, Ashley, and Lilah:

Eleanor's choir and band concerts

Eleanor had both a choir concert and a band concert in December. Don't ask me why any teacher feels it's necessary to schedule extra events in the month of December, but they did. It was a lovely concert though!

Eleanor even got to do the introduction for one of the songs:

Then Eleanor had a band concert! It got canceled due to snow originally (this happened to the winter concert in 6th grade, too), but then they rescheduled it for the following week. She did a great job!

January wrap-up

January! Always nice to have new starts and the first month of the year is definitely time for those. We had some snow, we had some ice, the kids played basketball, and we soldiered forward with the renovation in our house - more info on this soon.

We went out to dinner as a small group:

The kids got to go to Wagster's Magical Theater with our wonderful neighbors!

Chris and the kids went and raked leaves for Gaby one day.

Jane got to go ice skating with a friend for a birthday party:

Ben and Rosie had their annual doctor check up:

Rosie looking like a tweenager...

We went to a Tribe game or two...

We had a game night for a friend's 40th birthday:

Chris and I went with friends to see Back to the Future at the Altria in Richmond.

I took the kids to see their friends perform in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:

We had soooo many snow days (honestly mostly due to ice, not snow). The kids had one planned day off, and then 4 "snow/virtual" days - an entire week off.

Virtual learning at its best:

The Dubble Dunk Dessert Cafe (one of the things Ben did to pass the time in the week off school):

Chris got invited to check out VBC's new location in Yorktown at their soft opening. We had a great time!

Racquet ball games at the rec center:

We went to the Gold Rush/alumni reunion game at W&M. We even got to see niece Sally race in the baby race!

The month ended much as it started - cold! Onward to more cold weather in February!