Eva's Rock Band debut

This summer Eva participated in a Rock Band camp. They rehearsed twice a week for six weeks to prepare for a big end of summer concert on the Town Green.

Their group, the Crispy Flame Snapback Dragons, consisted of four girls, all of whom had taken lessons for just one year. 

Eva had hoped a whole cheering section, so we invited friends, family and neighbors. We were so surprised when everyone we invited showed up! Eva had quite an entourage there to support her.
  

Dinner Club friends

Neighbors

Neighbors and Friends

Family

The Chums

The first two songs were a bit rocky...but by the third song, they found their groove. Unfortunately I am having a hard time getting the video off my video camera. Luckily I also recorded the concert on another camera, focused just on Eva.

Getting ready to start

Eva on drums

The first song was 'You Belong With Me' by Taylor Swift.
https://youtu.be/00pPvKMzYrA

Next they played 'Stressed Out' by 21 Pilots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnVZiRBBVbw

The third song was their best one, and the one we were most looking forward to hearing because it was the song Eva had chosen for the group to learn. Eva is playing drums and singing on this one, no easy feat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gZd6pIg-A&feature=youtu.be

After their performance, the mother of the other singer presented everyone with bouquets of roses.

We are so proud of Eva for the hard work she put into this summer! It was such a fun afternoon, sitting in the park listening to all of the young musicians.

And in case you're wondering, Eva said she is DEFINITELY going to be the Rock Band camp again next summer. We can't wait to see what she does next year!
 

Way to go, Rock Star!!

Videos from the kids

The kids have been on a recent kick of making all sorts of videos: commercials, challenges, and video game tutorials. (If you'd like to stay up to date, look up "The Lindsay Kids" on YouTube.)

Typically they sit and brainstorm for ideas, and then Amanda begins filming. This batch of videos comes after Dave came home from a trip to BJ's, hence the overload of junk food.

Let it be known that I did not buy these products! 

Here are some of their videos...

Cheese Balls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OMDVLEpWI

Artificial Flowers: (Amanda even added Closed Captioning for those hard of hearing..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W_FOtXxjTg

Hamburger Helper:
https://youtu.be/OcBa1SomBzM

Sour Patch Kids:
https://youtu.be/kUikZW4hHTM

"Would You Rather Challenge"

https://youtu.be/hT3sPxFuUyI

Summer Chamber Group Camp: The Cupcake Quartet

For the past four days, Amanda has been going to Chamber Group Camp.

She is in a quartet with her best friend Katelynn, who plays flute, and two other girls from Katelynn's elementary school.

They have only rehearsed four times, an hour per day, and today was the final concert.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

https://youtu.be/NRzX9srYNCU