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November – the only month of the year that it will be so warm and beautiful that you can be playing, barefoot, in the backyard at the beginning of the month, but by the end, it’s snowing and you’re building a snowman.
Okay, so that RARELY happens – but it did this year!
As a photographer, I pay super close attention to the weather, and TYPICALLY it is really beautiful the first 10 days of November (which encompasses the first weekend, maybe the first two). There are (obviously) exceptions to this rule, but over the last few years, we have had absolutely beautiful beginnings to our Novembers.
And that is exactly what happened this year (evidenced by my videos of my children soaking up all the Vitamin D they could!)
What is pretty rare though is getting snow in November – let alone enough snow to build a snowman! It’s pretty debatable whether we had “enough” snow for a snowman (I’m not even sure if we got a measurable full inch), but somehow Braelynn made it work. (Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right?)
I know, stop talking about the weather Kara, geez – but this seriously has to be the craziest monthly film I’ve created for our family just because of the weather spectrum – it’s wild.
Of course, the huge highlight in the month of November is Thanksgiving. We celebrated this year by hosting Nana at our house for a few days! We had so much fun having her here. And we had Thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s house.
Since Nana was here (and a few other extended family members were in town as well), we hosted Leander’s birthday party a few days early, so we could have a bigger, better party! You can see the highlights of his party here: https://youtu.be/15yKiHii8Kk
Moments of note this month:
(0:08) YES, the balloon really did pop
(0:09) We put up our Christmas Tree!
(2:27) An epic game of tag
(2:59) Don’t worry – he was fine
(3:01) First snow of the season!
(5:41) Thanksgiving
(6:57) An early birthday dinner with Nana
(8:16) We put up our tree early, but we don’t decorate it until after Leander’s birthday party – we held his party early this year so that some extended family could celebrate with us, so we were able to decorate our tree a little earlier than usual!
Just in case you’ve missed what I’m doing – I decided that I wanted to create a curated “home video” for our family every month (remember those old “home movies” our families used to create? with the giant video recorders that an entire VHS tape fit in?) Those videos were fantastic, but if you’ve ever sat down to watch one (does anyone even own a VHS player anymore?) you very quickly realize that you do a lot of “fast-forwarding”.
So, my goal, is to take all the little videos I take of our family over the course of a month & create a short (my goal is to be around 10 minutes) video of my favorite snippets. I am SO excited to finally have a dedicated place to chronicle my family videos & keep them safe & accessible.
Enjoy a little peek into what our November looked like!
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