Showing posts with label Christmas production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas production. Show all posts
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
What a weekend!
Saturday we all got up early (for a Saturday)... Mikey and Hannah went with Meme and Papaw just before 9am to Home Depot to make an "art easel". Cathy and I arrived at church at 10 for a choir rehearsal until noon. We're getting ready for our Christmas production on the 13th and 14th. After choir we went to Toys backwards R Us to get some presents for the kids... for Hannah we got a __________ and a _______ ________ and a ___ of ______ _________, and for Mikey we got a __ _______ and a _____________ and a ___ of _______ for his ________ (actual names of toys removed because, you know, Mikey does know how to read!) After we left TbRU we dropped the loot off at home and picked up the kids, and then I dropped all of them off at home and went straight to drama rehearsal for the production! After that I came home and had a little bit of down time... Cathy had been getting Hannah ready to go take Christmas pictures at Sears. That appointment was at 6:30... after trying to get a almost-1-year-old to smile for about a half hour or so, we were all pooped.
Today after church Cathy has grocery shopping to do, and then we're going to go to Bass Pro Shop for some kids activities they have this month... rumor is that Mikey will be able to make a reindeer hat today! Tonight I have another drama rehearsal, and also tonight if I get done with that in time, I want to take Mikey to the "Bethlehem Walk" that the church around the corner does every year... they have a huge field behind their church, and they set it up with live animals and stations and the "audience" actually walks through the drama, the story of Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem for Jesus to be born. We discovered it 4-5 years ago when I drove by there one weekend and saw a CAMEL out there! It's a little bit campy (these are just volunteers from the congregation after all, not professional actors) but it's a lot of fun for kids. Hopefully we'll have time for that!
I'd better put my necktie on for church... the game's about to begin!
Today after church Cathy has grocery shopping to do, and then we're going to go to Bass Pro Shop for some kids activities they have this month... rumor is that Mikey will be able to make a reindeer hat today! Tonight I have another drama rehearsal, and also tonight if I get done with that in time, I want to take Mikey to the "Bethlehem Walk" that the church around the corner does every year... they have a huge field behind their church, and they set it up with live animals and stations and the "audience" actually walks through the drama, the story of Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem for Jesus to be born. We discovered it 4-5 years ago when I drove by there one weekend and saw a CAMEL out there! It's a little bit campy (these are just volunteers from the congregation after all, not professional actors) but it's a lot of fun for kids. Hopefully we'll have time for that!
I'd better put my necktie on for church... the game's about to begin!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Christmas Prodigal: My First Rehearsal
This year I tried out to be in the Grace Church Christmas production, an original play called "The Christmas Prodigal". I've been familiar with the script for several months, since the initial idea was for the WIT songwriting team to write original music for it (I actually wrote a ton of somgs for it, but with the shakeup in leadership in the fine arts area I think maybe original music may have fallen through the cracks). We did some read-throughs at the WIT meetings, and I had so much fun reading the script out loud that I decided to go ahead and try out. I'm playing The Annoyed Yet Henpecked Innkeeper ("NO! THIS IS A STABLE! YOU CAN'T STAY IN THERE!") It's a rather small part, with only nine lines in one single scene, but it will be fun to just be part of the whole thing. Besides, I have more lines than Mary, who only gets to be hustled in by Joseph while saying "Joseph! Help me! The baby's coming!" 
So last night was the first rehearsal I've been to. I've been working on my lines, so I pretty much have them memorized, but I forgot to work on which lines they come after (it's good to be able to say your lines, but it's even better to say them at the right time!!) so I was still a little bit shaky all rehearsal, but it was still fun. Maybe I'm wacky in the head, but it's so fun to pretend that you're someone else for a while. Or maybe it's the feeling that you know exactly what's going to happen (okay, you know exactly what's supposed to happen) and the appropriate way for you to respond to the situation. It's all planned out ahead of time! It's a lot easier than the improv that each of us does all day every day!
So last night was the first rehearsal I've been to. I've been working on my lines, so I pretty much have them memorized, but I forgot to work on which lines they come after (it's good to be able to say your lines, but it's even better to say them at the right time!!) so I was still a little bit shaky all rehearsal, but it was still fun. Maybe I'm wacky in the head, but it's so fun to pretend that you're someone else for a while. Or maybe it's the feeling that you know exactly what's going to happen (okay, you know exactly what's supposed to happen) and the appropriate way for you to respond to the situation. It's all planned out ahead of time! It's a lot easier than the improv that each of us does all day every day!
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Week In Review
WOW... this week has been eventful! I've been meaning all week to post something about last weekend, and not having time, particularly because I wanted to include some pictures and they were on the camera and not on the computer!
Last Friday something kind of cool happened at our friends Jerry & Shelley's house. They had invited Mike Sheehan, an older guy that sings in the choir with us, to share about hsi recent missions trip to Argentina. The place was pretty packed, and we didn't help alleviate that: we brought Mikey and Hannah right along with us! Everyone wanted to play with Hannah, including our friend Rhonda:
...and Hannah's little friend Alivia:
We really enjoyed Mike's stories about his trip, and we even got to see some video of some of the congregations and places (it's on the laptop behind Mike's head):
The next morning we kind of relaxed and didn't do much. Hannah and I got in some practice time on the old keyboard:
Actually, it was supposed to be me getting some piano practice in, but Hannah always wants to be doing what Daddy's doing!
I actually did participate in the ORU alumni day of prayer and fasting, praying for ORU and specifically for a few current ORU students I know. I didn't go to the service at 6... actually, I didn't quite make it to 6 with my fast. At about 2:30 I realized that I was suffering through for the sake of suffering through and that my fasting wasn't driving me to prayer, but actually was distracting me from everything. So I resolved to last until 3, and that's what I did. Then I had a snack! 
Sunday morning Cathy wasn't feeling well, so Mikey and I went to church stag. Mikey had forgotten his Nintendo DS, but I had the camera on me so I let him take pictures during sound check. The pictures are a little dark, but here's the whole set. And here's the one Mr. Robert tried to talk me into deleting within seconds of when Mikey took it:
That Mr. Robert! He's a fun guy!
My mom and dad usually pick up Mikey and Hannah after Sunday school so they don't have to wait for us to get done singing in second service, so they picked up Mikey and took him home. Unbeknownst to me, they took him to my home instead of theirs, so I showed up at their house and found nobody at the house but Sky Captain in the back yard:
(Hmm... maybe I should Photoshop that sidewalk a bit...)
It was Super Sunday at church, and Mario Murillo spoke in both the morning and evening services. It was really great stuff! If you want to know more about what happened Sunday morning, you'll have to read this post on my other blog.
Monday was Mikey's first den meeting with his new Cub Scout den, Den 1 of Pack 137. We've been to a pack activity already, but this was the first den meeting. They actually completed almost a whole achievement in their Bear books! They fingerprinted themselves and they did plaster casts of their feet (Mikey's plaster cast didn't turn out, but maybe some of them worked out better). The meeting was at Mayo Demonstration School, which I had never been inside although I've driven past it hundreds of times. I thought it was a really cool place; there are barely any walls in the whole building. It looks like much of it is one big library/classroom, although we were in a traditionally-sized room where they have art classes. Afterward all the kids went out onto the playground out back... one of the mothers told me that they kids love to go to school there and sometimes don't want to go home! We tried to get Mikey in there when he was going into Kindergarten, but we didn't get in. Pity; he would have loved it! But he's enjoying being in home school this year... which of course is another post...
Tuesday I auditioned for an acting role in this year's Christmas production at Grace. I've read the script a bunch of times, since we were working on some original music for it in WIT meetings, and I had so much fun reading through the script that I thought I'd try out for a part. Besides, we didn't get to be in the program last year... there were extenuating circumstances! So I guess maybe this year I'm making up for that. I love Christmas!
WHEW... after all that news, it's good to have a few days of the same old grind! Church Wednesday night with choir practice after, Thursday night we actually watched The Incredibles at home (that's SUCH a great movie!). Today Cathy and Mikey and Hannah are going shopping for some fall clothing, and I don't think we have any big plans for tonight. Tomorrow, however, is a BIG deal... not only do Mikey and I get to go to Lowe's and make a pirate ship, but Cathy gets to go see American Idols Live at the new BOK Center! And Grace Church is starting up the new Saturday evening services this weekend. If it wasn't for American Idols Live, I'd go to the first one, just to see how it went!
But the really SUPER big weekend will be next weekend. I'll tell you what happened as soon as I figure out which of the three or four things that are scheduled that we decide to do!
Last Friday something kind of cool happened at our friends Jerry & Shelley's house. They had invited Mike Sheehan, an older guy that sings in the choir with us, to share about hsi recent missions trip to Argentina. The place was pretty packed, and we didn't help alleviate that: we brought Mikey and Hannah right along with us! Everyone wanted to play with Hannah, including our friend Rhonda:
...and Hannah's little friend Alivia:
We really enjoyed Mike's stories about his trip, and we even got to see some video of some of the congregations and places (it's on the laptop behind Mike's head):
The next morning we kind of relaxed and didn't do much. Hannah and I got in some practice time on the old keyboard:
Actually, it was supposed to be me getting some piano practice in, but Hannah always wants to be doing what Daddy's doing!
I actually did participate in the ORU alumni day of prayer and fasting, praying for ORU and specifically for a few current ORU students I know. I didn't go to the service at 6... actually, I didn't quite make it to 6 with my fast. At about 2:30 I realized that I was suffering through for the sake of suffering through and that my fasting wasn't driving me to prayer, but actually was distracting me from everything. So I resolved to last until 3, and that's what I did. Then I had a snack! Sunday morning Cathy wasn't feeling well, so Mikey and I went to church stag. Mikey had forgotten his Nintendo DS, but I had the camera on me so I let him take pictures during sound check. The pictures are a little dark, but here's the whole set. And here's the one Mr. Robert tried to talk me into deleting within seconds of when Mikey took it:
That Mr. Robert! He's a fun guy!
My mom and dad usually pick up Mikey and Hannah after Sunday school so they don't have to wait for us to get done singing in second service, so they picked up Mikey and took him home. Unbeknownst to me, they took him to my home instead of theirs, so I showed up at their house and found nobody at the house but Sky Captain in the back yard:
(Hmm... maybe I should Photoshop that sidewalk a bit...)
It was Super Sunday at church, and Mario Murillo spoke in both the morning and evening services. It was really great stuff! If you want to know more about what happened Sunday morning, you'll have to read this post on my other blog.
Monday was Mikey's first den meeting with his new Cub Scout den, Den 1 of Pack 137. We've been to a pack activity already, but this was the first den meeting. They actually completed almost a whole achievement in their Bear books! They fingerprinted themselves and they did plaster casts of their feet (Mikey's plaster cast didn't turn out, but maybe some of them worked out better). The meeting was at Mayo Demonstration School, which I had never been inside although I've driven past it hundreds of times. I thought it was a really cool place; there are barely any walls in the whole building. It looks like much of it is one big library/classroom, although we were in a traditionally-sized room where they have art classes. Afterward all the kids went out onto the playground out back... one of the mothers told me that they kids love to go to school there and sometimes don't want to go home! We tried to get Mikey in there when he was going into Kindergarten, but we didn't get in. Pity; he would have loved it! But he's enjoying being in home school this year... which of course is another post...
Tuesday I auditioned for an acting role in this year's Christmas production at Grace. I've read the script a bunch of times, since we were working on some original music for it in WIT meetings, and I had so much fun reading through the script that I thought I'd try out for a part. Besides, we didn't get to be in the program last year... there were extenuating circumstances! So I guess maybe this year I'm making up for that. I love Christmas!
WHEW... after all that news, it's good to have a few days of the same old grind! Church Wednesday night with choir practice after, Thursday night we actually watched The Incredibles at home (that's SUCH a great movie!). Today Cathy and Mikey and Hannah are going shopping for some fall clothing, and I don't think we have any big plans for tonight. Tomorrow, however, is a BIG deal... not only do Mikey and I get to go to Lowe's and make a pirate ship, but Cathy gets to go see American Idols Live at the new BOK Center! And Grace Church is starting up the new Saturday evening services this weekend. If it wasn't for American Idols Live, I'd go to the first one, just to see how it went!
But the really SUPER big weekend will be next weekend. I'll tell you what happened as soon as I figure out which of the three or four things that are scheduled that we decide to do!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
New Baby Tomorrow
Seven and a half years after we had our first child, and tomorrow we are inducing to have the second one. We're inducing this time too, so we won't have the omigosh my water broke on the floor in Wal-Mart we have to get to the hospital NOW!!! thing going on. And it does give us the opportunity to get a night's sleep first... as if anyone could SLEEP knowing you're having a BABY the next day! :)
We went to the Christmas production at our church tonight, and it was very nice. Of course, if we hadn't been scheduled to induce at 7am on Sunday morning on the same Sunday as our production...! Thank you so much Dr. Ross! hehe we would have sung in the choir tonight. We could have done it tonight for the Saturday performance but not the Sunday ones so we decided to bow out this year. We just went for moral support. We were glad we did! Cathy cried any time anyone said Jesus was a "baby" or Joseph was the "father" or Mary was the "mother"... it was almost Pavlovian. :)
We went to the Christmas production at our church tonight, and it was very nice. Of course, if we hadn't been scheduled to induce at 7am on Sunday morning on the same Sunday as our production...! Thank you so much Dr. Ross! hehe we would have sung in the choir tonight. We could have done it tonight for the Saturday performance but not the Sunday ones so we decided to bow out this year. We just went for moral support. We were glad we did! Cathy cried any time anyone said Jesus was a "baby" or Joseph was the "father" or Mary was the "mother"... it was almost Pavlovian. :)
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