Today was the  District’s Fine Arts festival for all the activities we were gone ALL day!  Not only did we have the kids in all the activities, but Angela and I had a table for the ARTSpeaks group we participate in.  We are hoping to get momentum going for the arts in the district!  There were a LOT of people that stopped by, filled out a question about how the arts have helped them in their lives and given them an edge.

While we weren’t at the table, we were watching the kids do their thing.  We first went and saw Kirstyn perform with the combined middle school 7th grade choirs in the auditorium.  As usual, they sounded great and we were very entertained!  There were over 100 kids singing!

Right after Kirstyn sang, she went and got ready to play in the 7th grade band performance.  This sounded great as well.

She’s really torn right now between band and chorus.  She likes singing better right now, so we’ll see what she decides to do in high school.  With all the combined bands together from the middle school 7th grades, there had to be over 200 people playing with her and they sounded awesome!  It’s really fun to see how much progress they are making over what they did in 5th grade!  🙂

After we listened to Kirstyn play, we went back to our booth for awhile longer until it was time to go and see Brittany play in the orchestra.  They combined her high school orchestra with the middle school 8th grade orchestras.  This gives the middle school kids a chance to work with the high school kids and gives them some performers to look up to and see what they can become.

She did a GREAT job and the music they played was great!  Brittany has come a long way and we are very proud of her.  She auditioned to be in the upper orchestra for next year, and this year, SHE MADE IT!  Yea!  She’s so excited.  It was a big struggle for her to be in the regular orchestra this year when last year she was in the higher one.  She committed herself to practice more and it paid off!  Go Brittany!

We then went and saw Kirstyn’s and Zach’s art that was displayed for the festival.  They were very proud of their artwork.  It was funny…  both of them had pieces selected that were pumpkins!  We had to chuckle about that.  🙂

While we were waiting for Sarah to play (the final performance of the festival), we went around and viewed a lot of the other artwork.  It is a amazing how much talent we have in our district!

Sarah did a great job in her performance as well!  She has really enjoyed playing in the band and will continue to play the flute at BYU.

What a great fine arts festival this year!  Having all the kids at Metea really was awesome!  We got to see all of the performances and didn’t have to jump back and forth between high schools!  Whew!  We are so exhausted now from all the day’s events that we are going to take the evening off and just relax and do nothing!  🙂