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Performances

This past week we enjoyed several holiday performances from the girls. First up was Brynn's piano recital on Saturday right after Reagan's birthday party. She played 'Little Drummer Boy' and did a fantastic job.




Sunday Brynn sang in church. She is surrounded by some of the other kids in our Sunday School class, plus the tall kid in the Vikings jersey over to the left. We have such a great group of kids this year in class; they are always so well-behaved. Daddy took the below pic, but I probably should have taken the camera with me, as I had a front row seat to the action since I led my group up to the front.


Yesterday was the HopeKids daycare and after school program concert. They had the grade schoolers down to the toddlers all up there at the same time, so we saw Brynn and Clara together. Clara had been practicing her songs at home this past weekend. I don't have any good pictures of Brynn as she was in the same position the whole time as you see in the below pic. She was upset because she didn't dress up like some of the other girls did. Clara did great, though! Ha.


I came over to the side so I could see Clara better and take some more pics. She spied me and came running over to me. I thought for sure she wouldn't go back to her spot to sing, but she did and finished out the concert.



Here is the video from their performance.

Thank you to the grandparents for coming to watch the performances! It's always so fun. Tomorrow I go decorate gingerbread houses at Brynn's school, so I'm looking forward to that.

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