Classical Recital song birds...

Ok, so I'm a little late posting these videos from the Classical Voice Recital, but here you go anyway.

This was Princess B's very first recital because she just started her lessons at the first of the year. (I apologize for the sound quality....I'm still learning how to use the camcorder)
Here she is singing Longing For Spring by W.A. Mozart. She did a fantastic job and no one could even tell she was nervous.


Here is Emily singing the alto part on Ave Maria by Camille Saint-Saens. The girl to her left is Chloe Frazee who was also singing alto and the other two girls in the quartet singing soprano are Amber Staats and Carrie Pearson. If you didn't know it, I bet you couldn't guess that Emily is only just recently 13 yrs. old and all the other girls are seniors in high school!


And here is Emily singing her Italian Arts song, Lasciar d'amarti (Love's Bond to Sever) by Francesco Gasparini in Italian. She was the hit of the recital.


And as a grand finale, the whole group of voice students (minus a couple who were sick and one who was out of town) sang Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee by Ludwig Van Beethoven in both German and English. Emily is the only one singing the tenor part because the other student who was supposed to sing it with her had to be out of town. She carried it pretty well all on her own.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

Well, it's finally here again. My favorite season of the year. Christmas is literally right around the corner (only 21 days away!) and I am putting up the decorations today with little Mister. Usually, I have no sooner cleared the Thanksgiving dishes from the table and waved goodbye to our guests when you can find me enticing my family to break open the bins of decor and go to it!

I think maybe I hesitated only slightly this year because I know we aren't going to have a tree. There's no point if we are leaving on the 22nd for Colorado. I'm a little sad about it, but we can't afford the extra expense right now as everything is going toward funding the trip and I have so many other decorations that I will have no problem making this house look festive enough for a party (or two :D).

We are all getting excited about traveling for the holidays. I am so glad my kiddos are such good travelers. No car sickness at all. I've been busy gathering various car activities to help tick away the miles. This will be the longest trip we've taken as a family. I must confess...I'm a little concerned about traveling that long with our dog. She's a pretty good traveler too, but I am wondering how many stops we will have to make in that first REALLY long leg of the trip. ugh

Well, looks like this is going to be a short post today. Too much to do and I've already had several interruptions, so obviously now is not a good time for this. Ahhh, the life of a mom.

Love to you all-