LOVE the Christmas programs

Our past week was filled with programs and I just love them! I love seeing what the kids have been working on and all the excitement they have.....

Our church did "Back to the Manger" The 3 older kids were all involved and singing and Alyssa was an angel for one scene too. We've been listening to the music since September so even Aidan would sing along in the van! It was a completely amazing performance that the kids totally enjoyed being part of.

The general theme was a time machine which skipped generations, and brought them back to the manager scene. It was really a fantastic play or musical. Loved the songs and they had fun doing different themes of the decades.

Alyssa had a piano recital. She started piano last fall and is doing fabulous with it. I signed her up for piano because she needed something that was "hers" to do. I'm always helping Samara and Austin with reading and so I needed to find something that Alyssa could do and have her be accountable each day for. Usually it's like pulling teeth to get her to learn her lesson the first day or two, but by the end of the week she will sit down about any free time she has and plays. She usually has her lessons memorized each week. I'm not sure yet if it's just something to do, or if she enjoys it............but regardless, she does a great job playing.

And of course, we had the school choir concert. They did wonderful at this too. It's amazing they can learn so many different songs and betweens grades 1-5 they recited Luke 2, so incredible to hear all their hard work. Austin and Samara in the top left and Alyssa is in the right of the picture. It's kind of hard to see anything, but fun to include. And Austin was a towns person in a song they added stuff too.


So it's been a great Christmas song filled week.