Two Mother's Day Musicals

I began to look through photos from this year's Mother's Day musical when I realized that I had never shared any of the pictures from last year's musical. The 2012 Mother's Day musical was the very first Kid's Choir Musical that Rebekah was old enough to be in, and the very last one before Alyssa was too old to be part of Kid's Choir. So being a first and a last it was somewhat bittersweet and I knew I needed to have pictures of both here. The blue shirts are the 2013 musical, the yellow shirts are the 2012 musical...

This year's musical was called "The Star Factor" and was as cute and funny as ever.
Photo 128 of 365, taken May 12th:






I enjoy watching the musicals so much. I can so clearly see the girls' personalities in how they act on stage. Each song has a little choreography that goes with it and Emma is always very focused on their director the whole time, trying to be right on cue and doing every movement as precisely as she can. Rebekah on the other hand does her own thing sometimes, sticking with the motions and dance moves she loves the best.

The musical from 2012, Acorns to Oaks:



Alyssa had one of the leading drama roles in her last Kid's Choir musical. I am not sure if I have ever said this in other posts about the girls' involvement with choir at church, but I know it is because of her Kingdom Kid's Choir experiences and their awesome teacher, Gina, that Alyssa realized how much she loves music, singing and acting.

Music has become a part of her. There is not a moment of the day when she's not singing, humming, or tapping out the beat of a song with her pencil eraser. Music seems to help Alyssa think and it's always swirling through her mind and heart. She'd love to teach music someday, despite the current lack of job security for music teachers. I'm sure that if it's what she's meant to do, God will open the right doors, but for now, we could not be more thankful that Alyssa has been blessed by some really great teachers and found something she is very passionate about. She helps run sounds at all the practices now, since she is too old to be part of the choir itself.

Emma doing her thing ~ she had a solo.

With this being the first time Rebekah was part of the choir, I had to beg her to even stay at the first several practices. It was a tearful battle each week for the first few weeks, but I just knew if she went, she would love it! By Mother's Day she was ready for the show. I was fearful that she would do something very unpredictable, or possibly stand up there and cry, but she rocked it :-) {you should click the collage to see the photos better...we may have a future drama queen on our hands, see the bottom left photo}
It was such a fun musical and a perfect end to Alyssa's time in the Kid's Choir.


Happy Birthday to my Dad!! His birthday was May 8th and it always falls near Mother's Day so we get to celebrate both occasions on the same weekend.

Photo 129 of 365, taken May 13th:

One more choir related photo...the Monday after the church musicals a group of kids always goes to a nearby retirement community to give the residents an abbreviated presentation of the musical. Here they are being silly after their performance. It's often easier than I might imagine to make people happy.