Liv End of Year Recitals and Happenings

Dr. Gill’s wife asked Liv to sing a song she had written from their ward talent show and then invited her to come sing it in their single’s ward sacrament meeting. It was fun for all the kids to attend a singles ward. Sister Gill an Olive Garden gift card to say thank you for the time she spent learning and sharing her song.

 Liv was quite excited about that. Liv and Bentley have become good friends this year. Almost every Friday night they want to hang together either at our place or hers. One night the spent forever in the bathrooms, wandered around the house in masks and then at dinner unveiled the mustaches they had drawn on their faces. 

 Bentley’s family invited Liv to go to a jazz game with them. They had suite tickets and and bought Liv a jersey. She had a blast. 

 Liv did a fantastic job at her last solo showcase at COPA. She sang Goodship Lollipop and performed a monologue about how She does not like boys! 

Last year with Delaynne Dayton in Prodigy.

 She also got the opportunity to participate in a fun Mother’s day music video. Someone posted that they needed a little girl for the shoot week of (because the original soloist got COVID). They asked people to tag their favorite singers. Oen of Liv’s rise up friends tagged her, we sent in a video of her singing her Goodship Lollipop solo and they picked it her! I was in awe watching he record in this studio with ease she even puts one ear in the headphones and keeps one ear out which I guess is the real way to do it (I had no clue). 

 I got so many texts about how great she did at her music video shoot. 

 It was super fun for her. I was so impressed with her dance recital. She has really improved in dance this year. Nonetheless, she did not move up to the next company. Her directors sat down individually with me to let me know they see potential in her, but that she is lacking of the basic dance technique skills that a lot of the other girls have from taking years of dance before this, so they are keeping her back to really hammer in those skills. Liv learned my Grand Plan from the Lightning Thief and fell in love with this song. She sang this for her voice recital at the HCTO and did a fabulous job. She also used it for her MDT company audition at COPA. Liv also scored  another gig for a church focused music video. The song is titled the Priesthood of God. This one was a paid gig. The song writer, Alaina Larsen, had a very specific vision and wanted all the soloists to have coordinating dresses, so Liv and I got to go shopping one day to find the right dress that complimented the other soloists.  We would try on a dress and shoot pictures to Alaina to see if she would say yea or no.  It was a fun day.

The video was so so much work several days practices, several days recording and several days filming, but the video turned out beautiful. 

 I helped hold words for the kiddos on recording day mostly so they were all focused in the right place.

I love the message of the song sung by all these amazingly talented kids about God's priesthood power has been restored to guild, bless, and uplift, men, women and all God's children equally as one.

They needed extras for the final shoot and Olivia invited Hallie to join her.  And at the end the writer, Alaina Larsen gave each of the kids temple cookies.