November 2025

November was a busy one for us! Highlights of the month for our family: the culmination of marching band season, musical rehearsals galore for Shelby, Hadley's & Brady's first concert!, decorating for Christmas, a trip to Kalahari in Austin with the Robbins family, and of course Thanksgiving! 

I documented the picture below because we were so happy to finally be having a Friday night movie again!! After so many Fridays on football field, it was so nice to be here on a Friday evening!

{researching his topic for Science Night}

On November 8th, we went to the Cain Live & In Color show featuring Cain, Jon Reddick, Caleb & John, and Annie F. Downs. It was Hadley's & Brady's first concert, and it was a lot of fun to hear lots of our favorite K Love songs performed live! (Shelby wasn't able to join us because her school's football team made it to the play-offs for the first time in 5 or 6 years!)

We were thrilled to have Derek home on Veterans Day! The rest of us all had school, but it was such a treat to have Derek with us for breakfast in the morning before all going our separate ways. And the kids loved having Daddy bring them to school/pick them up. Hadley & Brady were especially pumped because they got to arrive to school about an hour later/leave an hour earlier than they do with me. 

Hadley, Brady, and I started doing weekly lunch dates in November. Of course our first stop was Panera!

Brady and Hadley were very excited to chop/smash our leftover pumpkins once we decided to put our fall decorations away for the season.

For a couple of days at the beginning of our Thanksgiving break, we headed to Austin to go to Kalahari (an indoor water park) & meet up with the Robbins family. Lots of fun was had!!!

{helping prep fpr Thanksgiving!}

{Thanksgiving Day Parade}

After our Thanksgiving lunch, we headed out to see the long awaited new Wicked movie!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Hadley's band was invited to perform at the Alamo Christmas tree lighting, which was such a fun way to kick off the holiday season!

After a whirlwind summer traveling across the country and moving and then a busy fall adjusting to me working again along with Shelby starting high school and marching band....it was so nice to have such a quiet, relaxing Thanksgiving break!