weekend happenings

we have friendly, feathered friends visit boulder, arriving at about this time each year.  flocks and fields of beautiful, honking canadian geese make their winter home here, finding it a balmy and comfortable destination compared to their northern, native residence..... 

for a welcomed change, we all spent friday evening together at:

ben, sebastian and gabrielle's choirs were performing altogether.....

at fairview.....

the mesa elementary m&m's choir sang:
zum gali gali, an israeli folk song and
siyahumba, a south african folksong

excalibur sang:
ain't that a kick in the head

chivalry sang:
sinner man, a traditional
african-american spiritual

voices of the knight sang:

an absolutely beautiful rendition of 

carol of the bells

for the finale, 

the mass ensemble sang:

acquarius/let the sun shine in

it was a fabulous concert!!

on saturday morning, we went 

to a festive christmas pancake breakfast 

at our church....

what a fun morning eating

chocolate chip pancakes with

homemade raspberry syrup, bacon

fresh fruit, orange juice

 and hot chocolate.....

chatting and playing around 

with our friends.....

and singing christmas carols 

together to our heart's content......

the choir wreaths are here.....

sebastian put a lot of time into advertising and selling fresh christmas wreaths this past fall for the fairview choir fundraiser....

his choir won the prize for most wreaths sold!! well done, choir president!

we collected the wreaths from the delivery truck, added the velvety red bows, turned on the christmas carol radio station and off we went to hand deliver the wreaths to all of his customers....

mmmmmm, my car smells divine!

now we know what a florist feels like.....

everyone was so happy to see sebastian and get their beautiful wreaths......

fairview football banquet:

we attended ben's football banquet......

it was wonderful to acknowledge and celebrate all the players and coaches in this fantastic football program but...

it went on for five hours......

they served a beautiful cake to refresh everyone 

at half time - go knights!

 then back to watch season highlights and

hand out awards......

our gifted and talented, 

and very humble son 

was awarded:

varsity offensive mvp

as well as 5A all-conference 

first team 

running back

  dear ben, 

we are so proud of you here at the end of this football season and recognize the months and months of commitment, hard work, endurance, pain, sacrifice, focus and positive, level-headed attitude that you have shown through the ups and downs of this year.  you are such a quiet, shining example to so many who look to you and these qualities you exemplify, yet hold so humbly.  it is something wonderful to be given natural gifts and abilities but to acknowledge these and commit yourself to appreciating and developing them further is to possess a sparkle of greatness.  well done, our dear son.  you could not have two more gratified fans in your cheering section.

we love you dearly,  mom and dad