All I Want Is Loving You and Music, Music, Music

I've had a lovely music filled day.  The church orchestra played for our service this morning.  Thank the heavens above it went much, much better than the last time they played.  They played a medley of Christmas hymns that everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

Both my husband and my younger son were a part of the church orchestra this morning.  My husband played the electric bass and my son played the upright bass.

 The next  pictures are of the orchestra and the pulpit at my church.

 

 This next photo is of the side of the church where you can see some of the stained glass windows.

After the service, I took a couple of pictures of the front of the sanctuary.  I think our church is beautiful all the time, but it looked especially pretty and festive today with the Christmas trees there.

The Christmas trees were decorated with white lights, sprigs of red berries, and red cardinal birds.

 

This is a shot of the back of the church where there is more pretty stained glass above the door.

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This afternoon there was more music for us to enjoy.  The local high school choirs and orchestra Christmas concert was held at the Arts and Education Auditorium building.  My younger son played the upright bass with both the chamber group and the full orchestra.

All of the groups that performed did a wonderful job.  The stage was lined with beautiful white poinsettia plants and strung with white lights to make it festive.  Christmas music filled the packed, standing room only auditorium.  We were seated too far from the stage to take very good photos, but that didn't stop me from trying, of course.  

Here is one where you can see my son playing the bass.  He's the one with glasses and red hair standing on the right side there that you can see fairly  well.  I'm sure those who have been coming to this blog for a while will probably recognize him right away since his picture has appeared here so frequently. 

This picture shows the whole stage with the flowers and lights up front along the edge.  I really enjoyed the music of the concert and appreciated how hard the students and their teachers worked to put the performances all together.

We ended this day filled with music by attending our monthly church fellowship group where we enjoyed a potluck dinner and held a Christmas tree ornament exchange.  These are the ornaments we received---two different kinds of snowmen.  One of them is ringing a bell and one is made from jingle bells!!  That seemed fitting for this day filled with music.

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