Sing your heart out!

Brooke loves to sing. She heard they were looking for people to sing in the Ward Choir for the Christmas program and wanted to do it! We have no problem singing, the problem was that they practice at 8 am Sunday mornings!! Yikes! We didn't make it the first Sunday, but then they had a practice during the week. A couple of her friends wanted to sing, but weren't interested in all the practice, but Brooke stuck it out the whole time. We even made it to the last 8 am practice before the performance. Charlotte happily colored in one of the pews while we practiced. Then during the service she sat with one of her babysitters. It was a fun experience for Brooke.

We also had an opportunity to go caroling. I found out that one of my Visiting Teacher's goes every year with her family. I asked if we could tag along one night. They go about 5 days straight before Christmas. I have very fond memories of caroling as a teenager, but have never been with my family. We had wanted to go Monday night for FHE, but it was Nathan's birthday, and it's not what he wanted to do. And he got Mario Kart and Brooke wanted to play that instead. But at 8:00, Brooke was done playing Mario Kart and wanted to go caroling. Sorry! Too late, maybe tomorrow.

So when it was time to go the next night, Brooke started to get nervous. She didn't know if she'd know all the songs, or she'd be embarrassed, I don't know. She wanted to bring her songbook with her. She almost backed out of going. I finally convinced her to try it out and she said she was only going to one house. One house turned into about 7 or 8. Both girls loved it! I didn't think Charlotte would really like it that much, but it was almost as fun as trick-or treating!

I think we have started a new tradition and will have to do this every year!