Jena's December

Jena is involved in two different performing groups--a dance class and a theatre class and December is the time for Christmas performances which includes extra practices and dress rehearsals.  If you know Jena, you know she lives for this stuff--the costumes, the practices, and performing and the wonderful friends and teachers she works with. We and (Jena) are blessed because of their service.

First it was a performance of her dance class on the first Saturday of December.  They danced at a retirement home in Bountiful....

Her group plus her teacher Mya

They danced to a number from The Grinch.  It was darling.

She then attended a dress rehearsal for her theatre group in Centerpointe and then we headed south to Sandy to their performance at the Festival of Trees (a famous fundraiser for Primary Children's Hospital).

As usual, the Christmas trees on display are incredible.  We took a picture of this Snoopy tree for our friend, Sister Jones, who is a big fan.

So many trees.......

Then the following Friday evening, Saturday morning, and tomorrow night, Jena is performing with her Friend to Friend group at Centerpointe Theatre.

posing by their tree before her first performance

The show was called "Light of Christmas" and feature many songs from Siamese Street.  It was a fun performance which made you laugh (and also cry those happy tears).

Jena was an angel in the Nativity scene.

They did a darling act from the 12 days of Christmas.  Jena's friend Maddie was the partridge in the pear tree.  She did awesome.

Jena also had a line during a section where they were talking about kindness.  Her line was:  Kindness is magic.  She did it perfectly--right on time.

This was the cutest song about the broken bell on Santa's sleigh that went 'Bong" instead of ding a ling.  The junior class did just a cute job of making silly poses to represent the "bong."  Loved it.

After the Saturday performance, we headed to the Christmas/cast party at a local church.

And from that party, Jena changed clothes and we headed to Davis Lanes for the first day of Special Olympics bowling.  This was the first time that she has seen most of her Comet Team members and she loved it.  Parents and friends were coming over and telling her how much they had missed her.  She told me about half way through "It is just like old times."  She loves this sweet Special Olympic family as we do, too.

And she did pretty good for her first day back and with three games of bowling which she hasn't done since 2019.  She got an 88, 115, and 90.

Despite the craziness of not being settled into our house, Jena has done great and she finds great joy in these activities and the people she interacts with. And tomorrow, she will have their last performance and then head back for her YSA Christmas Party.  So more fun times ahead.