Richards Family: TIme Flies

Time has just flown by since my last post... We have been very busy practicing and performing... We have had 8 performances in the last two weeks... We are so grateful for the Lord's sustaining hand... Here are some pictures of our adventures..

We went to Campbell for the first time May 9th... We performed our hillbilly program for their Mother and Daughter Spring Tea Party...

May 10th, we did a musical presentation for the Hildreth Middle school... We had so much fun teaching them about the different instruments, rhythm, genres etc... They did a fantastic job playing a song on handbells... We had a blast and look forward to going back... (sorry we don't have more pictures but our camera died)

Two days later, on May 12th we drove under ominous looking clouds to play background music at St. John's Nursing Home in Kearney... I don't know why but whenever we get back home after a program the minute we start unpacking the car it starts to downpour... ok maybe its not every time but when it does it sure makes unloading the car exciting...

Holdrege Memorial Homes was having a oldies car show May 13th and they invited us to join them and entertain the folks with some golden oldies... We all dressed up accordingly and had fun watching our friends sing the songs that they grew up listening to... Some of our favorites were:

In the Mood

Tuxedo Juction

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Goin' to the Chapel

Ba Ba Ba Ba Babara Ann

and many more...

We had a little bit of a break then on the 19th we went to Cozad for the first time... We eventually found the library and had a good time doing our hillbilly skit for people that had gathered... It warmed our hearts to be able to meet such friendly and welcoming people...

Saturday the 21st we put on our best scarves, and headed down to the Golden Living Nursing Home in Franklin... We did a premier performance of our gospel program that we have been working on..

Just a couple of the songs we arranged were:

I Need Thee Every Hour

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Hey Graham, are you sure you can't take a couple more instruments (heehee)...

Yesterday evening, was the climax of our week... We had been invited to do a musical service at the Methodist Church in Elwood... All week we had been practicing about 6 hrs a day to prepare and polish a gospel program that would focus on our feelings of devotion and love towards God and His goodness... We had never had to perform a whole church service before so we were nervous... We decided that each of us would pick our favorite gospel song and then give a small spiritual thought about it... It went extremely well and we are full of gratitude for God's mercy and grace... Here are a few snapshots of our performance as well as the songs that we chose...

Dad: Jesus Loves Me

Mom: Rock of Ages

Katie: When I Get Carried Away