living vicariously

So you know how people say that parents try to live vicariously though their children...well, it happened tonight!  About 5 weeks ago I was asked to give the name of 3 girls from our ward to participate in the Lehi youth choir.  Sarah wasn't even 12 yet, but I asked if she wanted to do it and then recruited some of my laurels and it turned out that I had 5 young women participate.  Sarah has perfect pitch, no lie.  When she was about a year and a half the way I would get her to brush her teeth is I would sing a scale and have her sing it back to me.  Then I would sing a note, then she would sing a whole note higher or lower all the way up and down the scale.  As Sarah grew older she grew more aware of other people looking at her and being in crowds and well she didn't like it too much...she did not like performing in front of others especially in large crowds.  She didn't like primary programs, or giving a talk in primary let alone sing in front of a bunch of people.  Which is why I was SO, SO proud of her tonight.  She was in the front row, because she was one of the shortest (and probably THE youngest) and she sang with Vocal Point!  Vocal Point is a BYU men's a cappella group that is incredible.  The youth choir sang the opening and closing song with the majority of the concert being Vocal Point. After the choir sang their final number, which was amazing, Vocal Point sang an encore song and the choir was singing and dancing with them by the end.  I was just LOVING that my little girl was up there on stage with that great group!  Our computer is being worked on and as soon as it is up and going again I will post pictures.

As Sarah and I were driving home tonight she was just beaming and I said I bet this is a night you will never forget.  I told her that I loved being in choir and some of my best memories were singing in a choir. I told her she didn't always have to sing in the choir if she didn't want to, but it sure was fun!

On Friday Aaron and I went to the musical South Pacific with some of our friends.  While we were there the subject came up if I liked to go to concerts.  I said, eh, they are okay (she was talking about going to a U2 concert) but after going to tonights concert I think I would much rather go to a concert like this one than a big production.  Just all around GREAT upbeat music.  Loved it!