Christmas, 2011 Piano Recital

I admit that I'm late getting this posted, it being the day after Christmas and all. But still.

The two boys played in a piano recital earlier this month. The bothed played wonderfully and looked terrific, dressed in shirts, ties, and dress slacks.

The location was fabulous, too: a small local church, part of North Central College in Naperville, IL. The church has been re-purposed to general college use, but for this recital I was able to slip into the balcony to take this video, which was pretty cool.

Immediately below is Cody's pieces - he played a duet with his teacher:



Bailey played this piece:



Before the recital, all the students posted for pictures:



John Needham
December 26, 2011
420PM
Aurora, IL

5th Grade Musical

Bailey performed in his school's 5th Grade Musical. Below are some excerpts from that performance.





Yankee Doodle Dandy:


UPDATE: Sunday, December 11, 2011:
76 Trombones:



Another video:



Tomorrow both boys are playing piano recitals so we'll have more videos to come soon.

John Needham
December 9, 2011
Aurora, IL

Test Post From Carolyn's iPad,

Bailey On Trumpet: Veteran's Day, 2011

Bailey got to play before his school's Veteran's Day Assembly, for both the morning and afternoon sessions. Below are exerpts of his performance.

We are all very proud of him.



John Needham
Aurora, IL
November 21, 2011

The 10YO On Trumpet

Award Winning Home Cook Cody

Behold our own award-winning home-cook Cody, who brought home an Honorable Mention for Hottest Chili in the first ever Faith Lutheran Church Chili Cookoff last night.

He's very happy and we're all quite proud of him.

Jillian The English Coonhound (aka Redtick Coonhound)

She is the newest member of our little family. Her name is Jillian and she's a hound, through and through. We love hounds, and with pack dogs, it is often better to have more than one. When our South The Dog passed away, we knew eventually we'd get a new one. Now we have Jillian.

Cody adores her, wants her to be "his dog." I explained that Jillian will decide whose dog she will be. He'll have to work hard to make her his own. He promised to do that.

The 1st Annual Needham Family Open

We played golf as a foursome yesterday, the first time we've all played together and Cody's first time on a real course for nine holes. This was the first of what we hope will become many rounds together, reminiscent of Carolyn's family's Hardy Open.

Bailey On A Harley

His first time. Scary how much he liked it.

Testing A Post From The Android App.

So, how did it go?