Christmas Surprises

We had lots of surprises at Christmas this year. My brother, Mike, and I arranged for my mom to go on a crafting retreat weekend with some ladies from our church. I made her a calendar with some pictures from our wedding and on January 7, I wrote in the retreat. Here is her reaction:

My parents also pulled off a surprise for my brother. He has been talking for a long time about finding concert tickets to a band he likes. However, he thought the tickets had sold out and the only ones he could find were over $100. What he didn't know was that my dad had had me buy a ticket on the day they went on sale...looks like Nate will be going to his concert!

Avalon Concert

This past Thursday and Friday, I had a special opportunity to sing in a choir with Avalon! It was a really neat experience and the Christmas concert was awesome!

I took this picture during sound check on Friday night! I wish I had been able to get a picture of Avalon facing us, but I didn't want to get in trouble for not singing!

Mike took these pictures from the audience. The choir and orchestra started the concert by singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem". 200 voices, plus 100 instruments make a very joyous sound!

Avalon

Do you see me? I'm just above the speaker, to the right.

It snowed inside while Avalon sang "Winter Wonderland"!

We sang "Light a Candle" and the children's choir lined the aisles while we stood on stage with our candles.

Both shows were incredible. Avalon puts on a great show and I had so much fun!!!