Saturday, December 20, 2008

18th Ward Nativity Extravaganza

This morning we had our annual ward Christmas breakfast. This year the primary volunteered to join its quarterly activity with the breakfast so we were all treated to a wonderful nativity pageant complete with Samuel in Zarahemla and shepherds in Bethlehem. Marie was in charge of the music. It was great. She had all 16 of the activity day girls over to our house last Tuesday for a rehearsal. They made quite an angel choir!
The Sunbeams were the stable animals. Will was to be a sheep (with a real fleece from Aunt Jan like the other one in the photo), but when his friend Trevin refused to participate unless he could be a horse, I gave him a brown tunic to be a horse and then that was all willful Will wanted to be so he got a recycled star wars tunic and the two of them were happy horses. The two horses and the black and white cow (Jackson) started to buck during the final singing of Silent Night. As the cow was kicking up his back legs, his front arms failed to hold him up so he collapsed down on his face which gave him a bloody nose. He started to wail. Luckily his mother was quick to scoop him up and take him out.
Joel was the best singer and best out-fitted of all the shepherds. Notice the crook I fashioned out of a shovel handle, a curverd spare dryer part and some brown bag strips.
Sarah has a beautiful voice and a beautiful angel face.
The angel, the shepherd and the manger horse.

3 comments:

  1. Looking forward to the annual Emmett production.

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  2. Sarah is the perfect Angel. I also concur on the Shepherd outfit. At first view it looks like Joel the shepherd and the posse of rappers. The updated crook is a significant improvement over a pool cue. Will as a horse (or a sheep) combined with Brian as a camel should make this years family production one of the all time best!

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  3. We, too, look forward to the local production come Christmas. However, this appeared to be an awsome production, too. We were glad to see all three grandchildren playing critical parts. It must be in the genes.

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