Veronica brought some youthful energy to the musical performances at our church on Sunday. She had very little practice for these performances and came down with a head cold two days before, but she still did a stellar job!
Our little guy had a big birthday. We mostly celebrated over the weekend.
Here's a clip of Omri playing percussion in his school's spring band performance. I've always kind of wanted to be a drummer, so seeing him hitting a snare drum in this show made me very proud. He has good rhythm!
Just a short clip from one song from Veronica's high school choir here...
Veronica sang the prelude at the Ash Wednesday service at our church. Her accompanist couldn't make it to the service because of the weather, so V had to find a new one at the last minute, which was stressful, but she rolled with the punches, and everything ended up working out great. It sounded so powerful in person. I'm very proud of our girl!
She started pre-school at Oak Hill Montessori at age 2. Now, 12 years later, Veronica's time there has come to a close. I am super proud of her and how far she has come during that time!
Veronica's final choir performance at Oak Hill:
I think this is all we're going to do from Paris, as I'm falling behind on posting about everything else. This is a rough compilation of some videos I captured. I've been trying to avoid using copyrighted music but gave into the temptation here (it may eventually get pulled).
There is still more Paris to come, but I wanted to put this out there in the meantime (sorry about the camera focus issues):
This is one of my very most favorite projects I have ever worked on. It's every bit as personal to me as the short film I made with Veronica. This is my and Omri's "cardboard racetrack."
We've had a lot of SpongeBob in our lives lately. You might remember Veronica was in a high school production at Ashland near the end of summer. Immediately after that, she started a middle school production at Children's Performing Arts. This time she played Karen, the personification of a computer who is married to evil single-celled organism, and it was so much fun to watch what she did with the role!
Fun night out with Veronica! Gracie Abrams has opened for Taylor Swift, which has brought her a lot attention (also interesting fact: her dad is J.J. Abrams, the director of the Lost pilot, The Force Awakens, and a bunch of other movies). She has bigger following than I expected. V is a fan, so we checked her out at The Armory in Minneapolis. She put on a great show!
I showed this new short film to an audience at our church last weekend and also put it up on Facebook. I wanted to share it here too, in case you missed it.
You may have seen parts of this one before, as some of it dates back to 2016. I had stopped my subscription to Adobe Premiere Pro for a few years and recently started a fresh trial of it, giving me the opportunity to revisit some open projects, including this goofy Cottage Cheese entry. The music (written and recorded by my friend Jonah) is probably the best part of it, not to mention a cute little Veronica and quick cameo from a short-haired Omri, so I am glad this is finally seeing the light of day.
A few odds and ends to wrap up coverage of our trip...
We hiked to this creek, took a dip, and jumped off some of the rocks. Omri thought he may have found gold.
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Well, you had to know we would get to Mount Rushmore eventually. And of course I took a million photos there. Here's a sample.
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