Full Days!

This weekend kept me moving! Saturday night I had my Autumn concert/recital in Mesquite and now I can move on! By that I mean that I don't have to practice those same songs over and over again, I get to move on to some other ones to play over and over again.
Zach, Lincoln and I went up to Logandale Saturday afternoon, had a great lunch at Mom and Dad Hills house, dropped Lincoln off to have some fun with grandma Hills, then went up to Mesquite to quickly practice on the piano before my recital.
My recital started at 6:00 and I played just 8 songs,2 from each musical era (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century). My biggest piece (Sonata Appassionata by Beethoven) had me worried the most, but I think it went pretty well.
It's so funny to me that I do these recitals because I'm such a shy person. That's probably why I do these things, because I'm hoping it will help me get better at being in front of a bunch of people.
I'm very grateful that I have such a great venue to do these recitals. The piano(Yamaha 7'6")couldn't be any better if you asked me so I always love playing on it
It was a good experience, but I'm not sad it's behind me.

Sunday night we hosted the monthly family dinner at our place. I was a little worried that there wouldn't be anything fun at our house to entertain the kids with since Lincoln is younger than most of his cousins and therefore doesn't have toys for all ages, but I was mistaken. They found (somehow) my box of primary music instruments and had a blast competing with the adults for noise. We learned to talk over crash cymbals, triangles, tambourines, etc. - even with the kids making all that noise in another room- go figure. It was a good night, there's nothing like being with family.


Tuesday, Veteran's Day, we went for a walk down by the lake at the old Railway tunnels. That's always a fun walk and it was a gorgeous day for it. My mom met us down there with two of my nieces.


Even with it being his naptime, Lincoln did very well. Of course, he does like being outside, like all kids.
At the start of our walk some Bighorn sheep were crossing our path. I tried to snap a picture of them, but I have absolutely no skills in picture taking so the picture didn't come out very well.

Zach carried Lincoln much of the way through the tunnels, then we decided to let Lincoln walk a bit on the way back, something that was very slow-going. Lincoln was a little tired and would kind of weave across the path in a very s-l-o-w way.

Finally, when we were close to the end, some other walkers looked at our(Mom Hill's) backpack-carrier and said, "with those wheels, you ought to be able to wheel him around like a stroller" we just shrugged and kept walking, but it had us thinking. We decided to stop and check it out and sure enough, it would do just that. So, Lincoln was wheeled much of the pathway back to the car. Too bad, we hadn't thought of that earlier-but what a cool carrier-thanks Mom Hills!