Book signing, boys, and Band!

The picture below is from my brother Kevin's book signing at Borders on Tuesday night. He wrote a book called "The Paper bag Christmas." It has been very exciting seeing him go through the process of being published. If you haven't read the book you should. We love it, and it really inspires the true meaning of Christmas.
Boys are not something we normally talk about around here, but on Tuesday we got to see a glimpse into what life might be like a few years from now at our house when Megan played the part of Helena in A Midsummers Nights Dream at her school. For those not familiar with the play, this meant that at one part Megan had two boys in love with her and she was fighting them off. (She loved slapping one on the wrist.) Besides a bit of a reality check for us, Megan did a wonderful job of acting and her Teacher called her a scene stealer. Way to go Megan!!!
Band is not a class my children are taking, but it starts with a b and we did have to sit through the band performance last night before getting to hear our angels voices at the school christmas concert. As always I was very impressed with the quality of the concert, and really enjoyed the older grades that even sang parts. The theme was December around the world, so many of the songs were in foreign languages. Some were about other cultures like chinese new year, kwanza, and Hanuakka, but there was still a nice religious Christmas undertone to it which is hard to find in school these days! Our girls did great and looked so cute up on stage. Samantha even sang without getting nervous! Way to go Christensen girls!!!!!!