It has been fun to be back in Rise up this year with all the friends we loved there. Carter has been doing the junior choir, Ignite, and seems to be enjoying that as well. He has learned so much and seems to love singing. Liv tried out for a solo for Rise Up’s first music video of the year and they gave her one! So she had fun recording that.
But mostly she loves hanging with her rise up friends at recordings. 
And Carter got to help record some Ignite tracks for the first time as well.
Rise Up filmed Celebrate at the Valore in Provo and it was basically a big New Years party all night. 
Carter filmed his first music video with Ignite and got to be in a little cameo with kids sipping hot chocolate. 
He is learning so much about singing harmonies and they have offered him a spot in the main Rise Up choir with Liv in January, so that will consolidate our schedule a little (which I am super excited about). I love listening to them practice their songs in my kitchen before rehearsal. Christmas was super super crazy with both of these choirs. Both kids performed at the Christkindlmart in SLC. Carter and I had a fun day getting out of school early and driving up together and wondering the booths and getting some German food. 
Liv performed on Saturday and it was a madhouse. Parking took 30 minutes and there were mobs of people we couldn't get out of there fast enough. But Liv did a great job on her solo in I Saw Three Ships with Audrey and Brynlee Dalton.
Liv performed with Gentri at the eccles in Salt Lake over Thanksgiving weekend and in Logan as well. Logan they made into a little tour and rented a house for all the rise up kids to stay in. I went along as a chaperone. I sort of took on all the food buying/planning for the group which was slightly overwhelming, but I think went over ok. The kids had so much fun in the house and stayed up way too late every night. It snowed a ton up in Logan I was so glad we stayed up there and weren't commuting back and forth. 
They performed beautifully and it was fun to watch the audience go crazy when Rise Up sang I Saw Three Ships each night. Liv brought her guitar and led a sing along one day for all the kids at the house. On impulse the kids decided they all wanted to go to the temple to do baptisms. Most them only had their choir dresses/suits to wear so we took all these matching kids to the temple and they did baptisms. 
3 of the girls up there had been given callbacks for Freaky Friday at the HCTO (their youth production), so we set up a make-shift audition room and recorded all their video callbacks to send in. Then, we took all the auditioners for Starbucks to reward their efforts.
Carter performed with the jazz orchestra, Mom and George came up for that performance. It was super fun and he seriously seemed to just love singing up there on stage for a big loud audience. Liv performed at the 1st Presbyterian Church one Sunday evening which was a neat cultural experience for my kids to be in a different church building than they were used to. Both Carter and Liv performed in temple square. Steve came up to enjoy the performances with us and then Stephanie and Jon drove up to take him back home. Carter sang at the church history museum and Liv got to sing in the tabernacle.
We decided to spend the night at the near by Hyatt as we had a free hotel room to use before the end of the year. So in between performances we walked back to the hotel with the boys and Steve and hung in the club room. The boys (and Steve) loved the free snacks, drinks, and games.
Then, we walked back to the tabernacle to watch Liv. She was given a solo that night, but unfortunately her mic didn't work. Sad. But it was still awesome to hear the choir sing in the Tabernacle. 
Afterwards we walked around and checked out all the nativities- they had one from Poland which I thought was cool. 
We had dinner at the City Creek food court and then went back to our hotel room to sleep and were headed back home in the morning. 
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