Girls Christmas Piano Recital

Trying to catch up on some posts that I am behind on 

Brielle’s first piano recital and she did great…

 

Destiny’s Spring Piano Recital

This past Saturday was Destiny’s piano recital…So the first video was her playing the two songs…The first song was Galloping Ponies..and the second one was Fur Elise…I was nervous for her..I was probably more nervous then she was and I wasn’t even playing..it took me back to about 20 years ago..when I was sitting there waiting to do my piano recital..boy did I hate that..but I never stuck with it.and Destiny has and she has a real talent that God has blessed her with..it just comes naturally to this girl..and she plays so beautiful….especially when no one is watching her..and she just lets it go…she does way better..the first one she did mess up on but I think it was her nerves that got the best of her..

The second video she is playing her favorite..they have a “Our Favorites” section of the recital where they get to pick a favorite..just one they they really love and enjoy playing where you don’t really pay attention to anything and just play..and she picked The Hokey Pokey..and she did way better in this one..but I love to see how far she has come over time..

This summer Brielle is going to start piano lessons too..she really wants to so we will see If she has the music ability in her..I don’t know if she will stick with it but we will see..Destiny has been so determined to play songs from our church book so she practices all the time  bc she knows that it just doesn’t come over night..but I think we are almost there..and she is excited about that..she played one song out of and plays it over and over and over now..but its ok..we are all used to it by now:)

p.s. I had Avery’s second IEP meeting today..hopefully I can update all of you on that later this week.

Destiny’s Piano Recital

Destiny had her Christmas piano recital today..She did wonderful considering she had a bad case of the nerves..she gets really nervous before she plays..and that in turn makes me really nervous too..my stomach is in knots right before she goes up to play..you would think I was going up to play too..ha!  The two songs that she played for the recital are" “Angels We Have Heard on High”  and “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.” Then they get to pick a favorite that they can play and she picked “Jingle Bells.”  We have been listening to these songs since the beginning of October. So its great to finally see her perfect them and play them so beautiful!!  Its amazing to see how far she has come since she started lessons. She has been playing since she was seven.

Our Thanksgiving

We had a quiet Thanksgiving meal. It was just our little family for the big Turkey dinner and then some of Jared’s family came over for supper and pie. It was actually kind of nice to have it with just us for a change. I thought it was going to be a little depressing but it was ok. Jared took the older girls shooting for awhile in the afternoon. It was there first time and well Destiny don’t care if she goes again. Brielle is all ready to go and do some actual hunting!!!  She really had fun!  What’s a guy to do when he don’t have any boys take some of his girls I guess…lol!!
Destiny played some Christmas music while I was getting lunch ready!!

Destiny playing the piano

Our turkey got a little brown..but we like it that way {IT actually cooked WAY faster then what I was expecting…}

Homemade dinner rolls…YUM!!!!

All the fixins…




Jianna- “Aaaaallll done!!”

Pies are NOT my specialty!!!! Actually it’s the pie crust that I HATE!!!  I need to find a good recipe…My problem is that I don’t have the patience to deal with the crust..so next year I am either going to buy my crust {Michelle I know you are going to cringe to that!!!}} or I need to practice more through out the year and make pies more then once a year!!  So Jared helped me did the pie crusts this year. He came home to see me all frustrated and took over!!! So he wanted me to make sure to take a pics of his pie this year…his patchwork pie crust and apple pie too..

Destiny wanted to make a pie too so she found a chocolate chip pie recipe and made it!!  All
the kids loved it..it was pretty good!! She is becoming quite the baker and for that I am thankful!!


Then in the middle of night some kind of bug decided to get me..and leave me on the toliet with the garabage can directly in front of me..if u know what i mean;)