October 22, 2007--Handel's Messiah website

I've blogged before about how our family is putting together a Christmas concert this year. My mom has been working on a website for our family--the Haley Family Singers. She put a sample of our singing on it, but it's not recorded well at all and it sounds pretty bad to me. We also took a family picture yesterday for the website. It turned out a bit grainy, but it's okay. You can see it HERE. We've got three whole concerts planned, plus one Christmas Eve service where we will be singing only a few songs. I believe we're doing over twenty songs in all. I'm doing one solo--"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted". We still have a couple of songs to learn, and only six more weeks! We need to learn "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" and we're not quite finished with "And With His Stripes We Are Healed" and we need a lot more work on the "Amen" chorus. We may have to cut that one out--it's really difficult. The kids also found out what parts they will be playing in the dinner theatre last night. Joy and Sarah were both asked to come back for a call back audition. Joy decided to sing a song that my little sister wrote for her audition, which is, well, a typical song that you would expect a nine-year old to write. I wasn't there, so I didn't know that's she picked to audition with. Amazingly enough, she got the best part--the childhood girlfriend of boy Rufus (the main character in the play!) Abby also got a part--the little girl who looks through the photo album about her Poppy Rufus. She's my daughter in the play. It's the part she tried out for that I was really hoping she'd get. The dance practices are going well. I ordered a pair of overalls for the country dance, and sewed bell bottoms for the hippy dance. On Wednesday we're going to start learning the 40's dance and Erick is going to dance with me. I can't wait! I thought I'd share this picture. It has nothing to do with any of the stuff I just blogged about, but I wanted to post it anyway. I caught Timothy "reading" a story to his stuffed Clifford, and it was so cute I had to take a picture.