Gethsemane

Last Sunday, Ellis found a new song in the Friend magazine that she hadn't heard before and started playing it on the piano, and Lillian liked it, so she joined in on the violin. You know, just noodling around. But the song was pretty, and we offered to actually work on it and play it for Sacrament meeting, if the Branch President wanted.

On Wednesday, the Branch President mentioned that he was concerned because he didn't have enough speakers. "Why don't you have the kids play their song?" i asked. Eureka!

It probably would have been easier if we'd started working on it on Monday, but I've gotta say, I have some unflappable kids, and they made it work. Lige got the hardest job - we voluntold him to do the ASL. Of course, we didn't have any ASL yet - just English. Some research yielded a great ASL interpretation (see previous post) and Lige and I spent an hour watching the video over and over again in slow motion to understand each sign. It was cool to see it change from something I sorta understood to something I completely understood. It got better and better!

On Sunday, the kids did GREAT. The only bad part was Martha and Jane feeling left out and crying the entire song while I tried really hard to get them to do something (anything!) else. Snots :)

On Monday, we asked the kids to do it for the camera, for posterity. They were surprisingly reluctant, and were actually really frustrated when they made mistakes. They really wanted to present a polished product to their friends and family. But as with all home videos, someone made some mistake every time. In the video that was chosen, there are some minor signing mistakes, and one major piano/violin mistake. The kids made me promise not to put it on FaceBook, only to show it to Grandmas and Aunts. So if anyone asks, you're an Aunt. Unless you'd rather be a Grandma... Your choice today! And maybe just don't mention to them that you saw the video, either...

Happy Easter, everyone. I'm so grateful for the Savior.