Band Bash

Brighton had a Halloween "Band Bash" tonight. They had bands from the two middle schools that feed into Brighton come perform and all the Brighton bands. Needless to say the parking lot was a little nuts with all those supportive parents coming to attend, and also cause most of the parking lot is still under construction. But we made it in time and even found a place to sit in the gymnasium stands, yay. The little kids were so good and cute as we sat and waited for the performances to start and as we watched all of them. Peter wanted to wear Sophi's hat, and I thought he looked SOOOO cute.

Group selfie -

And then Sophi said "What about Owen?" He was sitting on the other side of Sophi and was being so quiet and sweet. I didn't think my arm length could do a group selfie with him in it too, so he gets his own picture. He was being so good.

He is wearing his all red outfit for Spirit week today. Peter swaying to the music

My heart was really full with gratitude for all my sweet little kids tonight. Three cuties.

Wes was supposed to dress up in a costume for tonight, so he took/borrowed Ethan's unicorn onesie (pic #3), because Wesley insisted it was the only costume he could find that says "I don't care about this" - which was the message that he wanted to send. He sat there kind of sulking most of the time. Corey, Abi, and Lily came from Corey's parents house. They were over there cause Abi stayed after school for help with math and cause Lily had a clarinet lesson. They missed most of the middle school performances, no biggie, and arrived just in time to see Wesley's number. Wes mouthed to Corey several times "I don't want to be here" and Corey mouthed back "Yes you do!!" Wesley did the trumpet solo in the UP song (at 1:24) and sounded great. 

He was a reluctant trumpeter but we were proud of him and I enjoyed the performance. 

We stayed for almost the whole thing - I snuck out with kids after Wes was done and before the final number of the marching band. It just seemed to me like a marching band performance would be longer than the kids could handle after how patient they had already been. I let Corey and Lily stay to wait for Wesley. I ran to the store and Wes was rewarded with sushi for dinner. Halloween concerts are done, and think we will be ready for Christmas shows when they come in December.