Kings and Queens for a Song

I prepared this for last week, but they had so much fun I promised we could do it this week too.  Two for One, not bad.

I picked a child and they chose a song from the list of songs we are doing for this years Primary Presentation in sacrament meeting.  Then I chose a child and sent them into the hallway.  The child who chose the song now chooses a word from the song.  They wrote the word on a piece of paper (I used post-it notes)

and we paper clipped the paper to a crown (I got 2 for $1 at the dollar store).  So when you wore the crown you could not see the word, but the people looking at you could.  

 The child in the hall comes in and I put the crown on their head.  Then we sing... Sr would NOT sing that word, or in some cases phrases.    The child wearing the crown had to guess what the word was.   I think the hardest word turned out to be THE and probably because I kept forgetting how much it was in the song.

For Jr. we only did a few songs, one was Popcorn Popping, I Am A Child of God, and Follow the Prophet.  For this group the song on the crown got sung the loudest.

This has ended up being a really fun way to review the songs.  I am sure we will use it again!  

Thanks for the idea to the blog i got the idea from (sorry I can't remember it)

Convention Week...

The week that ended up changing my life....

I Worked...

Monday - 13 1/2 Hours
Tuesday - 16 + Hours LOTS of Tears...
45 minutes of sleep
Wednesday - 17 + Hours LOTS of tears....
Bad thing is I wanted to swear a lot, and did, at least in my brain.....good thing is with only about 45 minutes of sleep since I woke up Tuesday morning I was at my best as a comic (without swearing)
Thursday - 13 + Hours
Friday - 10 Hours

Lots of Diet Coke

If this was any other year, I would think I was getting off easy.  It is a light convention work week, not even one twenty hour day.  But this was no regular convention.   Because of one announcement and this email.

It's Official!

    
 

The artists and music you've come to love through Sounds of Zion are making a move to R Legacy Entertainment! We're excited about this transition and look forward to the great things this change will accomplish in creating greater exposure and album sales for our artists and the stores that sell their titles.

The Sounds of Zion name will accompany this transition, and become an imprint of R Legacy. The transition date is September 2nd.

Until then, we'll continue to serve stores just as we always have. After that date, all orders for music will go through R Legacy.

And the future of the remaining portions of Sounds of Zion? Well, we have more news coming your way on that in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

We appreciate all our wonderful artists and the store owners who have carried their music these many years. This is a change filled with mixed emotions, but we know this move will be beneficial to everyone involved.

Sincerely,

Doyl PeckSounds of Zion      

Life has changed.
The hunt for a job begins.  After over 20 years in the LDS Products industry, it is now time to find a new direction in life.

Yikes, I am so very scared, I know it will be okay at some point, but i am scared right now.

A Child's Prayer

This week, we were working on A Child's Prayer.  So after trying to come up with new ideas for a song that we sing a bit I use the Sunday Saver's Singing Time pictures and then I found these cute hand  die cuts with a hole in the middle.  Inside half of the hands I put a Q and the other half an A.

Then we went through the song and looked for Questions and the Answers to them.

 I was surprised by something.  In the first verse it mentions feeling the Spirit and remembering something.  I had never really paid attention to that, but the song not only asks questions and answers them, but it also show a couple of ways in which they can be answered.

Another reason to love this song.