Mariachi time!

Kiersten (in the pink) and Kees (in the plaid) doing the Cupid Shuffle...and then the mariachis came from playing for President George Herbert Walker Bush at the ranch next door and mariachi'd the night away!

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Loading up the horses to take to the ranch.

Gift time!

As is our custom, we do Christmas morning at my sister's house with my brother-in-law and my four nephews...LOTS of presents to distribute... but Kiersten and Dominic did pretty well as elves ;-)

Before the carnage!

First Chair Trumpet

Here's his "official" band portrait... and what's sort of cool is that he's playing the horn that my parents bought me over 30 years ago when I was in 6th grade!

Winter Concert

Kees was sick all day today... of all days on the day of his Winter Concert... but I kept him home, nursed him back to health, and got him well enough to make it to the auditorium ten minutes before the concert began!

He did a stand-out job...1st chair trumpet!

Trail of Lights 5k

7,000 runners for a night race in Austin... pretty cool!

Also, the moon was the closest in it's orbit that it ever comes to the earth so it was HUGE!