For Christmas I got a...

a new camera! 

Since then I have been picture crazy...

With Nate...

My favorite. <3

 

Birds....

 

Mom AND Nate...

 

And even my eye... haha

I must say...it's such a fun camera to take pictures with. =]

Oh Christmas Tree...

We finally put up our Christmas tree today... Yay!

Nate tried to help but... it didn't really work out. 

We ended up taking all the candy canes off because he was circling them like a shark. haha

  Also... found these cool shoes in the Christmas box.

I actually like them a lot. =]

Anyways... Have a Merry Christmas!

Fin.

The addition is done.... yay!

That is what it looks like now... (ignore the random wood plank on the deck.)

We were pretty excited to have that done before Christmas.

And there's Nate's little corner of the new  room..

(also has a desk, light and box of books that are not included in the picture.)

Orchestra Concert!

So yesterday was my first orchestra concert as a viola player!

I must say that all the orchestra classes were great.

High School (my group) played Sleigh Ride, Road to Lisdoonvarna, and Christmas Concerto. 

Mostly, I just wanted to say... way to go orchestra!

I love you guys! =]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I would like to start out by saying Happy Thanksgiving! 

I was going to list out everything I was thankful for but... I realized that it would be a pretty long list.

So instead I will just do another update on what is going on.

Last weekend, I went to a concert at The Orange Peel in Asheville.

As you can see on the ticket the two performers were Lykee Li and First Aid Kit. 

It was a blast and both were absolutely amazing.

If you have never heard of them... here's a taste of their music:

The first one is First Aid Kit while the second is Lykee Li. 

So that's what was happening last weekend. 

For this week... we are off for Thanksgiving break.

The house addition is almost done...

I should have pictures of that up soon but for now I must go. 

Have a good night and if you are doing black friday tomorrow...

good luck. 

StumbleUpon finds...

So I've been using StumbleUpon for about 3-4 years now... 

This week I have decided to show several websites under my interest of "music."

Even though I don't understand how these work...

I love them!

http://static.echonest.com/LabyrinthOfGenre/GenreMaze.html

 

This is fun if you want to find new music and new genres. 

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html

 

http://www.last.fm/music/Local+Natives/+videos/+1-XdnjfxXpr7g

 

These guys just look like they are having fun. =]

Also... I've been trying to update more often but it's been really hard to find time. 

So maybe I will try for every Friday... Saturday... or Sunday...

Sometime over the weekend!

The House

Last night I was lying in bed...

and all of a sudden thought...

"I haven't posted in a while!" 

So.. here I am...

adding another post.

It has been a busy week:

Placing 4th chair cello (out of 20?) for an orchestra concert ...

Carving pumpkins...

 

and watching as the house extension is being built!

 

Humm... and I just thought this was cheerful on a cold day.