Sunday School Program

Last Sunday, the girls participated in our church's Sunday School program entitled, "God Loves Me Dearly." It was a children-led church service based on a Lutheran hymn with the same title. Rachel had a special reading and a solo which she performed very well. Sarah had one line to speak but ended up with an additional one the day of the program. Leave it to the Bear to know other people's lines ;) Jordan sang all of the songs with the kids. Each girl did a nice job helping to express the reason of the Season and to convey the message that God DOES love us dearly.

Christmas Program

Rachel and Sarah performed in their school's Christmas Program on Dec. 2. Rachel was in the "Jingle Bell Jukebox." The story centers around a '50s style soda shop with a Jukebox. A group of students have come in to listen to some great holiday hits played on the Jukebox. They sang familiar Christmas songs with an added "rockin' beat." Some of the songs performed were, "Frosty the Snowman," "Jingle Bell Rock," "Let it Snow!" and "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town." The kids did a great job! Rachel and her 4th Grade Class.
Speaking her lines.

Singing and Choreography!

Move movement!

In front of the wonderful set our art teacher made!


Sarah's program was entitled, "Christmas on Candy Cane Lane." It is a story about how the red candy canes and green candy canes are fighting about who is better. The Christmas trees vote for green while Santa believes red is the better choice. Mrs. Claus shows up at the end to say that everyone is special and creates a red AND green striped candy cane. As you can see from the pictures, Sarah was a cute little red candy cane!

Sarah and her 1st Grade class performing, "Jolly Old St. Nicholas."

Singing out! Look at that vowel formation ;)

All ready for the program!

Posing by the "Candy Cane Lane" set.

Christmas Tree

Here is a picture of the Wieland Christmas Tree 2010. We still purchase a real tree! It is really fun to have a larger living room and windows to display our beautiful tree. The girls have a smaller, artificial tree downstairs that they decorate by themselves. Although you can't see it very well in this picture, we have a little white picket fence surrounding the base of the tree. It was made by my Grandfather Printz so it is a very special tradition to have it up. I have very fond memories of playing with my Barbies by the Christmas Tree and using the fence as their "gate" to get into their Christmas parties. There are also many ornaments on the tree from my Grandmother Gross. She send us an ornament every year for Christmas (even when we were adults.) She did make the mistake of not giving us ornaments one year because she thought we were getting too old. Boy, did my brothers and I give her a hard time! She ended up backordering Avon Ornaments for us. It is always wonderful to put the decorations on the tree and recall the traditions and memories of days in the past. Merry Christmas!

Choir Concert

Rachel sang in her first "J.A. Hughes Music Makers" concert on Nov. 23. The choir consists of almost 70 voices in grades 4th - 6th. Students give up their free time in the morning twice a week to practice. We don't have a lot of rehearsal time but they manage to sound quite good at concert time!