Christmas Choir

The entire FitzGerald clan is participating in the Christmas Choir for our church this year. We have the largest group of singers I can remember for many, many years. It's been hard work, but we're praying it'll pay off with a Christ-honoring performance on the 23rd. Both Shannon and David have solos, and they sound fantastic!

What a blessing to look over and see my children singing their hearts out for the Lord.




The entire service will be available live via the Internet that morning. Here's the link to watch us on 12/23 at 11:00 am PDT

Watch us live

Liz, for the family


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David is musical

Now, those of you who know
my husband David know that he is musical. He sings. He plays the guitar. He even taps out rhythms when working with the worship team for a Sunday morning set. What you might not know, however, is that he also used to play the trumpet. I'm told that that era of his musical career was short-lived, but remnants of those days eek out every so often. In fact, we get an earful of his tunes whenever he gets ahold of any cylindrical tubing, the legs to our swim team sign being a perfect example. Do I love him for his mouthy melodies? Not exactly for that, but it's just one of his quirks that makes him him. I get a kick out of how much HE enjoys it so much, and the kids often join in with their own tunes. It certainly helps me find him easily in a busy post-meet parking lot.

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April & May

It's been a loooong time since we updated the blog! Too long. In the next few posts, we'll show some picture highlights of the events that have been keeping us so busy. Enjoy!

April 14 - David took the kids up to the mountains for a Wham-O photo shoot in the snow.

April 18 - The children played the piano during a short concert for the residents at the Bethesda Retirement Center here in Hayward. The audience was thrilled that with the music and the visiting time.

May 1 - Liz made a short weekend trip up to Portland for more SWR training with Wanda Sanseri.

May 5 - The children posed at the restaurant where we enjoyed dinner in honor of Grandma Nancy's 82nd birthday.

May 8 - We attended a San Francisco Symphony concert for youth. Afterwards the children posed in front of the city capitol building.

Before leaving the city, we stopped at the Japanese Tea Gardens to enjoy the beauty of the day and for some photo time.

May 14 - Joshua was completely "out of it" after having four wisdom teeth extracted. He doesn't even remember leaving the doctor's office.

May 21 - Shannon and friends smiled while waiting for their turn to be called up on the stage to receive their AWANA certificates and awards. They did a great job this year working through their handbooks and learning verses.

May 22 - The kids finished up some clay projects that were to be fired that week in the kiln.

May 25 - Memorial Day afternoon was spent at the Southgate Swim Club where the kids got more sun and had a blast playing in the water. Here is a rare shot of Shannon and Joshua joining forces to play "chicken" in the water.