Callie's Choir Concerts

Callie worked hard with the Valley Elementary school choir this fall, joining late since we were in Vermont when choir began, catching up with lots of practice at home, early morning rehearsals twice a week, and lots of ups and downs with the emotions of the director. But it all came together beautifully on 6 December at Ogden's Christmas Village. We have made a little tradition of eating at La Ferrovia before the concert, which is always a delicious choice. And this time we came prepared with hot cocoa in the thermos and camped out under a heater to stay warm during the concert. Score! And we, of course, had fun wandering around the village peeking at the Christmasy scenes inside each house and enjoying the brilliant lights. Fun evening!

Dinner of champs!

I'm not sure what I was taking a picture of here.
But cute.

Lego house was a hit!

Love the lights!

Always love the nature center display.

And the nutcracker house is a classic!

I call this the Grinch tree because of that color.

I took this so I could remember to make some of these
big snowflake stars to decorate the house. And, wouldn't
you know? I never did and only remembered now
(at the end of February when I'm posting this). Womp, womp.
Maybe next year?

Another fun collection of nutcrackers.

Sam soakin' up the heat and slurpin' the
good stuff!

The stage backdrop was a cute Ogden skyline cardboard
cutout.

Here are the kids!

Blurry action shot.

That's Cal under the giant green arrow. (Thanks, Gregg,
for the handy visual!)

I spy Cal on the second row from the bottom,
second kid from the left.

bonus video!

two minutes of the long medley they performed at the village stage

The Christmas Village is the first concert of the season, but it's not the only one. We were looking forward to her school assembly performance on 19 December, too, since there are extra songs that they sing only there. Both grandmas and grandpas came to watch and listen and support. And luckily they both planned to come to the first show (there were two assemblies scheduled during the day) because Cal was sick. She rallied just enough to get through the first assembly (but did so rather in a rather pale, tired, weak state) and then she went home and slept through the afternoon show. Poor, sick little chick.

Grandma Blanchard brought Cal flowers
which brightened our piano all season long.