Christmas Eve Day

So this is what I did Christmas Eve day at Canyon Lake...

thanks to Leslie for the pictures...

Look carefully at the front of the Dolly you can see me sitting down, but I am waving at you! There's Santa on his Skiis

Santa and Rudolph (kinda cold?)

Ready to Launch!
Before they got wet or cold

A picture after the big ride. Eva and Lelsie the driver of the ski boat

*Nathan, *Layna Kate, Landon, *Jacob (* they were with me on the Dolly)

Cheers...

I Hope you all have a very,

Merry Christmas.

May God be with all of you the rest of this year and in the coming year and may sweet music fill your lives

The Love of Christmas

All my Christmas programs are over. For today's Sacrament Meeting Program everything was organized and everything went really smoothly. The strings and the flute player played wonderful and the 3 pianists were excellent. The Choir sang like angels. The music was tender and the message of our Savior was sweet. The Bishop's message was perfect. Gifts don't have to be material things. I am so grateful I have been given a talent to share music with others. I am grateful for all the participants in our ward for making this music wonderful. Thankful for family that help too. I'm glad Bryan and Jon could join us too. Maybe someday other grandkids will join us as we play our string instruments.

I am grateful for Christmas as it is the time when I think of His great love and sacrifice for us all to again live with our brother, the Savior and Redeemer of the World and our Heavenly Father in Heaven for eternity. It is times like this when I think how fragle our lives are. My friend just lost her husband yesterday. We too will pass from this life and I hope we can be happy in the way we lived our lives when that time comes.

Let's fill the rest of this Christmas season with the pure love of Christ.

I give my love to you all.....

Mom, Eva, Sister, Grandma, friend or whatever it is that you call my name...

Music...

Leslie wanted me to post quotes that started with the word Music. So here it is sit down and take some time to read...

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~Robert FrippMusic is the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde

Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~

Music, when soft voices die vibrates in the memory -~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art. ~ Author: Charlie Parker

Music has boundless powers for moving families toward greater spirituality and devotion to the gospel. Latter-day Saints should fill their homes with the sound of worthy music. ~ ~ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hymnbook

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. ~ Martin Luther

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. ~ William Congreve

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~ Plato

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.~Plato~

Music causes us to think eloquently.~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.~Plato~

Music causes us to think eloquently.~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

And if you read this far I will share my own MUSIC quote that I wrote in my journal October 2, 1985. Music is in me... it is my testimony... it is my soul.

Music - it's the song of the heart.

It's a Melody ready to be sung

Notes finding a pure direction forward

In hopes of finding Harmony

And when intertwined into a rich Symphony

it is a glorious and righteous Song of praise unto the Lord.

Like MUSIC - I should make my life that way also...

Striving each day to live pure and clean and striving forward to perfection and living in complete harmony with Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ to make in the final day a rich symphony of all the righteous souls in the celestial kingdom.

Did you really read this far? Well, Don't be afraid to comment!

What I really need?

So to show Leslie that I read her blog. I went to "search" on the interent and did that "Eva needs" thing and here it is ....

Eva needs a vacation
how true

Eva needs great water
I think we all do

Eva needs to enter the surreal world of facebook
I guess during the vacation I can take a better look? huh?

Eva needs home comforts for good sleep!!
Oh yah, I fell asleep this afternoon on my sweet bed!

Eva needs help
Always!

Eva needs a car
that is for sure!

Eva needs to watch herself
Don't we all? now that could go in many directions....right?

Eva still needs to blink...
Does that mean I'm still alive? especially after all the programs?

Eva needs the attention
Tell it to the noisy students!

Eve needs to keep up with her friends
And I'll add family to that!

Kind of a crazy post but there it is. I won't go into the next page of Eva need because it had "other Eva"'s last names so surely those don't apply to me!

So here are the cuties

My costume: Mrs Claus the director. (silly, huh!) The 2nd grade classes looked so cute today! They followed my every move and sang their hearts out. We got the shipment of 60 bell clusters like yesterday afternoon that were ordered. I had ordered some with one company but they didn't follow through with our order. So then I had to reorder with another company and I was so glad to get a set of bells in each child's hands. It was so cool to see that the kids could follow my steady beat patterns. Staying on the steady beat and sing rhythms at teh same time is hard even for older kids and grown ups to do, but the kids did it. Some of these pictures are blurry. I had a 4th grader taking the pictures and my camera is an old hand-me-down but it works! I wish this was a video but the pictures will have to do.

Here are the awesome little Tambourine players.

This class is very talented and right on the money with their rhythm patterns and were fun to watch . I did put them center stage.

Ho! Ho! Ho! Reindeer ....... can't you tell! (sorry blurry) Look at the girls singing with so much expression! Surely they will be in CHorus next year! They sang their hearts out about how Santa is such a kind person.

"Oh! I'm Gonna give a Gift to Santa Claus this year!"

Here's the real thing

Here is the Bulletin Board on the hall wall outside my room...

Sorry about the angle of the picture, the walls are too close in this hallway, so I had to stand at an angle to get the whole picture in. I changed my original idea a bit from the original pictures. I also didn't want people to think I was advertizing and wanting everyone to go out and buy music CDs for presents. I also changed the caption. I just want them to have fun singing Christmas Songs.
I also added the following "Old" poster that I made 10 or more years ago next to my door to add to the fun.
Now for the 2nd grade musical tomorrow. I think I am really at ease with this one and the kids are doing such a great job! So it should be two great performances tomorrow. I'll let you know.