One Nation Under God

Last night the kids sang with the Juab High School Concert Choir at the Utah capitol building in a program called, "One Nation Under God." It was a patriotic program aimed at emphasizing the Christian roots of our country and the religious basis of our Constitution. Here is Hannah on the bus next to her friend, Jessica Harris. Below is Emily next to Audrey Timmerman and Amanda Brooks, who are also from Levan, with Hannah and Jessica in the background.

This is Caleb eating during a break with his friend, Josiah Spencer.
The music for the program was written by Lex de Azevedo and Kaye Starr Heninger, and conducted by them. There were two semi-professional choirs, a small orchestra, George Dyer as one of the soloists, and 400 high school singers. The concert was held in the rotunda of the capitol, and it was a beautiful setting. The only thing we thought was terrible was that the singers had to stand on the risers through the entire concert! They told me that four people fainted and some sat down just in the nick of time. In the picture above (during the rehearsal) my three children are in the group on the right. Caleb is on the upper left hand corner of that right hand group in the picture. Emily and Hannah are there, too, but they are more obscured by the size of the picture, so I won't try to point them out. The kids rode on a bus. Russ and I came to Salt Lake to buy a car, and we brought Katie and Molly with us. The two little girls stayed at grandma's house while Russ and I attended the concert.