Beauty and the Beast~ Video Diary #1

Hey guys! I just wanted to update everyone our our current production of Beauty and the Beast. We are in the middle of rehearsals and having an absolute blast with the show! Here are some video clips of our cast in their first couple of dance rehearsals. Keep in mind that none of these kids have taken dance lessons before and are learning everything from scratch! Enjoy!

Our show is coming in March 2008! If you are in the Michigan area at that time, you should make it a point to come and see us! We would love to have you there!!!

Thanksgiving!

Hey Everyone! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope everyone has a great time with your friends and family over this holiday season!

This will be a sad thanksgiving for us as both of our families will not be around our area for the Thanksgiving holiday. So we have decided to spend the day with a family from the school who are dear friends of ours. That will be nice, but it would have been better to see our families. Either way, we should be able to see my family in a couple of weeks as they will be back in their home in Buchanan until after Christmas.

Today is our last half day before break starts and I am SOOOOO ready some time off! Have a blessed Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Where’s the snow?

Hey everyone! I am really enjoying having this laptop and being able to remain comfortable in my recliner and still do the work I need to do online. It’s so nice.

So we returned safe and sound from our high school choir retreat and things went really well. I feel like we were able to accomplish what we needed to and learned all of the rest of the music for our Christmas concert. We even got a head start on a couple of songs that the kids will be performing in our Spring concert. God even started a work in several students hearts. I had the opportunity to share a few things I had on my heart and try to challenge the kids in their walk with Christ. God even opened up a door for me to be able to talk with several students. I have such a burden for my students and pray that God will do a deep work in their lives.

WE ARE SO READY FOR THANKSGIVING BREAK!! It’s only about a week away now and we are so ready for the holiday and even more for CHRISTMAS! It is crazy that we haven’t had any nasty weather yet here . . . hopefully we will have snow for Christmas this year. Rennah, however, thinks that as soon as we get snow on the ground, we get to go to Papa’s house and have Christmas. So maybe it’s a good thing we don’t have any snow yet.

Nessa is doing so well with her schedule. She has started sleeping very well at night, usually 5-6 hours before waking up . . . even a couple of nights where she slept 7 hours or more! So life is starting to settle in for the St. Clair family! More later!

Choir Retreat

Well, I am sitting on the couch finishing up my preparation for our annual choir retreat that starts tomorrow. I am especially excited about this trip because it’s always great to get the kids out of their normal routine of school and get to know them in a more personal atmosphere and really focus on our relationship with each other and with Christ. This year, I am going to share some of my burdens for the students as I have watched them over the past four years. This year’s senior class was my first 8th grade Bible class! Please pray for me and my wife as we go with the kids and seek to invest in their lives!

New Laptop!

Praise the Lord for provision! The school where I work just provided me with a brand new laptop! They saw a “secret” Wal-mart sale and purchased and very nice laptop for about $300 for me! I am super excited. Hopefully I will be able to update a little more here now that I can sit on our comfortable couch and not in a painful wooden chair at our desktop. It’s so much nicer to work on the computer while you are comfortable.

Let’s see what’s new with us . . . we just had a great full cast rehearsal for Beauty and the Beast last Saturday . . . check out our B&B blog for videos and pictures. Then we took Rennah to Chuck E Cheese for lunch. She loved it! And actually beat me on several games that we played together! I couldn’t believe it! And get this . . . she won 50 tickets on ONE game that she played by herself! That was the TOP PRIZE on that game! I couldn’t believe her “luck”! It cracked me up! All together she won 270 tickets to get some nice prizes at the end.

We are doing well and Nessa continues to grow! I tell you what, they grow out of that newborn stage way too fast! Love you all! Keep us posted on your lives!