Willie Wonka in Durango

The Durango Arts Center has a children's program called "Applause" This season, Nichol, Robin and Kate all took part.

CandyMan, Grandma and an Umpa Lumpa. (How the heck do you spell that anyway?)

Columbine Christian's Christmas Pageant

Last Night was the last night to see the Columbine Christian School's Christmas Pageant. A number of the Heartwood kids were in it and they did a superb job. They even had to cover for a technical glitch that suddenly stopped all the music. India and Nichol had to ad lib few about a minute... I bet it seemed like an eternity to them..

A few pictures for you to see them in action..

Holiday Party

Sunday we had a holiday party here at heartwood cohousing. This is an annual event and it starts off with people performing songs and playing musical instruments. Many of the kids here took voice lessons every Wednesday after school. So we had a parade of songs both group and individual.

We also had songs played on the Piano and Violin by a couple of the kids as well.

Then ( and not necessarily in this order) some of the adults with talent got up and played songs on the guitar and piano topped off with a performance by a group of three guys here who got together and played the violin, guitar and flute.

You think we're done yet? Nope. The evening went on to include a sing-a-long that just wandered through a dozen or more christmas carols. Does anyone really know the words to the "Twelve days of Christmas"