Do you hear what I hear

So I mentioned that my family was asked to sing during stake conference. It was a fiasco.

So these pictures are obviously not from Stake Conference, but they serve to show who participated. We sang "I Believe in Christ," with Michael on melody, I sang tenor, Chris on alto, and my dad singing bass. Merri played the piano.

It started out fine, but on the last verse, Merri stopped playing. She apparently was missing a page, and she was unable to keep hitting any keys that would allow Michael and my dad to hold their parts. We actually held it togethe acapella for a few lines, and sounded really good. But then the melody sort of fell out, then the bass. I don't know if you've ever heard just the tenor and alto of a song, but it doesn't much sound like a song anymore. So I tried desperately to not stop singing, but it was hard. It sounded horrific for a few measures. Then I started singing melody again, and Michael was able to follow, and the bas came back, and Merri had the last page, so she came back in at the end, and I went back to the tenor part.

Of course, no one remembered that we sounded good acapella for a little bit. And I admit that I passed the buck to Merri to more than one understanding soul who informed me that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Well, not this someone. At least not that bad. It was more of a group effort, spearheaded by my absent-minded sister.

The picture of Merri is from when we went camping. She avoided the camera at Matt's wedding, so I don't have any better recent pictures of her. I'll now consider us even.

What are you looking at?

So, this picture is small. At least that's the size I selected. I'm trying to figure out the best way to post pictures. Because, for the most part, that's what people want to see, right? Especially some people I know who are named Erin. She told me, I'm not making it up. Anyway, I guess I have to give the people what they want.

Also, totally unrelated, my family was asked to sing for the High Priest Fireside of our stake conference in a couple weeks. So yesterday we were practicing and Holly kept suggesting songs she knew. Mostly Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I suggested Row, Row, Row Your Boat, since it can be sung as a round. Well, then I had the brilliant idea to sing the first line over and over while the others sang verses. Then, I had the even more brilliant idea that we should each sing only one line, all at the same time only once. So we did. I thought it sounded pretty good. And funny, so Holly and I were laughing pretty hysterically. Then we moved on.

Oh, and the picture I'm posting is of Mia at Matt's wedding. I like the picture.