Ward members of all ages performed quite a variety of talents. Among my favorites were a family that offered a hoe-down-style instrumental number called "Orange Blossom Special," a group of teenagers who did swing dancing, a boy who played a virtual drum, and, of course, my own children, whose dancing and pogo numbers were delightful!
Tyler danced to "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson, which is featured on the movie Curious George. Although some of his signature moves didn't appear in his performance, he pulled out some new ones that we just found hysterical. Please be patient with my atrocious camera work and the poor quality video. I shot it with our little digital camera and I was laughing so hard the image is far from steady.
Later in the show, Zachary jumped on his pogo stick to a clip from the "William Tell Overture." It was a great length for the show, but Zach clearly could have jumped for a lot longer! On Thursday when he was practicing he did 350 consecutive jumps!
The next video is of the piano duet I played with Lori Miller, a friend in our ward. We played a piece called "Nola," which I originally learned with my mom way back in the day.
Garry's special talent for the evening was wrangling/entertaining the Gavinator, whose patience for a two-hour show that began at his bedtime waned early. At the end of the evening, an exhausted Daddy moaned, "Do I really have to do church with this child in just two days?" Answer: yes. And he did. It was exhausting. Garry's talents are also responsible for editing the videos for posting here.
The final number of the evening brought the house down. The bishopric (the ecclesiastical leaders of our congregation) sang "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees. These guys were such great sports! Our bishop is the man in the middle with the fabulous hat and sunglasses. What you don't see in the video is that all of their wives were sitting on the edge of the stage, the objects of their husbands adoration.
Talent displays were part of the activity, and our boys participated here, as well. Tyler displayed some of his recent drawing and coloring projects, and Zachary displayed ten paper airplanes from his collection. We were impressed with our boys' creativity!
And so passed the last ward activity before my baby's birth. I'm relieved to have gotten through it. I think it's ironic that, in my relief, I spent Friday night dreaming about the next activity scheduled for June 6! Can't a girl catch a break?
8 comments:
You do such a great job with your calling! It seems they have given up on ward gatherings around here because everyone is so busy. They usually center around a holiday. The last one was at Valentines but got canceled because the church burnt down.
Priceless. Thanks, Garry, for making it possible for us to see!
All the Bartle performances were fabulous! It was a very fun night! As always, the 9th ward activities committe headed up by you, my dear, executed a wonderul ward event!
I don't suppose anyone recorded my kids' poem? We are currently video-camera-less and I'm kicking myself that I didn't try to round one up for the night. Thanks for a fun fun activity!
It was a great success and a very fun night! One more to check off the list.
What a great talent show. Way to go! Is Tyler really your son Heidi? So not shy up there dancing in front of everyone. Great job on the piano, it was fun to get to see you play. Now turn off that brain of yours for a while.
We laughed and laughed and got a great kick out of Ty's dancing. What a talented family we have. Zach is quite the jumper and you Heidi are always contributing with your talent. As always, Garry's silent in the background doing so much to support. Thanks so much for sharing. It was fun. Wish we could have seen it in person.
I Love it!!! What a talented family you have!!! My favorite was Ty's amazing moves! Very reminiscent of the late 80's early 90's with all the swaying in the lower body! And then I thought I was going to see some break dancing in there to! Wow! So fun!!!
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