Performers

Tim:

On Tuesday Whitney performed in Liberty's annual kindergarten music program.  This year the theme was The Zoo, and she wanted to go as a baby seal.  We didn't have time to track down a seal costume, so we got a little creative:

She was really cute performing various zoo and animal related songs with the other kindergarteners.  Some of the highlights were songs like "We're Going to the Zoo", "In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle", and "The Bear Necessities".

Whitney was also one of just a few of the kindergarteners who was selected for a small speaking part and did a fabulous job.  She seems to have no fear about public speaking.  Not sure who she inherited that from, certainly not her parents!

I'm in an acapella group with some of my BYU friends who also live here in Colorado.  We've been singing together for over 10 years now, although it's mostly during Christmastime.

We were invited to sing at a church Christmas musical program in Loveland on Saturday night and picked a few of our favorite acapella arrangements of Christmas songs.  Liz and the kids came to watch our performance.  They were amazed that everyone clapped and cheered so loudly for us.  They thought their dad was some sort of celebrity!  We made some fun changes to our music as well.  Our last song was "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and instead of singing, "Now bring us some figgy pudding" we sang "Now bring us some Christmas cookies" and kept gesturing towards the back where the refreshments were going to be served.  After the song was over while the crowd was cheering, someone from the back of the audience grabbed the plate of Christmas cookies and brought it to us.  We normally sing for free, but we were well compensated last night!

Here's our group after a performance last year

We've never been able to settle on a name for our acapella group.  It's mostly because we have so much fun picking silly names we can't settle on anything serious or something we'd be willing to live with long term.  At last night's concert they insisted that each performing group have a name.  We decided there's no reason we can't pick a different name for each occasion, so we went by "The Knights Before Christmas".  We have another performance on Thursday, so we'll see if that name sticks for a while or if we decide to change it again.