Singing for Easter...

Today was our Easter program at church. We sang a Cantata titled, This Garden is a Healing Place and it was absolutely beautiful. We've been quite busy over the last few weeks preparing and helping the choir director out. We have one of those choirs where people show up the day of the performance and sing with a "what page are we singing". Ü So, the choir director put together a quartet consisting of herself, myself, James and a bass....we went thru the whole program a few times, learned the hard spots and tricky parts, and then passed our knowledge down to the other members of the choir. This experience definitely taught me that no matter how much I love to sing...I'm a choir singer...not a soloist! lol. I just break down and cry if I sing by myself! Even if I keep telling myself "dont think about the words!" Cry baby, cry!

I love the Easter season...I love the hope and opportunity it can bring into our lives. I love that this Easter we get to spend the day watching General Conference and having the true and living prophet speak to us!

And look...someone video-taped one of our songs today...

Oh wait...that's not us, silly me. But we sounded JUST like that Ü!

{Singing}

I love to sing! I've wanted to sing in our ward choir since I found out we had one....of course, then I found out they do it at 8:15 and I had my doubts about being able to actually make it there on time. But Saturday night, I promised myself that I would make the effort to go. And even tried to talk James into coming with me (since choirs ALWAYS need men, he should be the one going and me sitting home w/ the girls), I finally got him to say he would go IF....IF....I went! I set my alarm for 7am and when it went off at 7am, the regular "Sunday morning thoughts" ran thru my brain....don't want to get up, soooooooo tired, just want to sleep, I dont need to go to choir, skipping it this time, oh I want to go, gonna take a nap afterwards, just get up and go and leave after sacrament meeting, ugh, so tired, hit snooze one more time, NO, get up now, if I got up at 7 I could probaly get everyone ready, too bad its 7:30.....and it goes on and on. The mind can think alot of things in 30 minutes, too bad it can't go back to sleep!
So, I finally get my booty out of bed...shower, try in vain to wake up my other 3 sleepy kids. At 8:07 when we should be leaving for choir, I finally say, Fine, I will go with out ya'll....but then of course we have to change the carseats over...which really, would take just as much time as putting the girls clothes on, grabbing out stuff and running out the door! So we did it! We (yes we...James actually SING! I got to stand right in front of him and still get goosebumps from his lovely voice) got to choir practice at a lovely 15 minutes late and walk in and they have FOUR people practicing, YIKES, glad we came! Of course by 10 till 9, we have a full-on choir with at least 15 people! AND...what I thought was just PRACTICE, was happening in sacrament meeting that day! Oh yay. But if I do say so myself, it turned out quite well....even with Aube screaming in the background. Next time, I'll be more prepared with distraction for that child....