Years ago, before Elle was born, I had written a few kid's songs for Sterling. These were just to have some fun but to also implement certain values put to music. I just remember thinking...."what would I want or need to hear as a child?"...and out came some of these songs. By the time Elle came along, Brandon and I were singing and teaching these songs to the kids at our church. We came up with more songs and were asked by a few parents to record them. After some time, we decided to send out a letter to raise money and see if this really was a possibility. Unfortunately, nothing really happened with it. So, we put it on the shelf but still continued to sing and play the songs for our kids and even more songs came. Sterling then began to write songs with us. (She just helped Brandon finish one of the latest songs the other day.) Last fall after we had moved a few states away we were given a generous check in the mail (from someone in our previous church back in SC) to go towards recording this kids album. We held onto the check for months and Brandon connected with a friendly guy from our church here in Kansas City that records and produces music. After chatting with him about possibly doing a recording, it was an opened door.
Now here we are with some money raised and money saved, recording our very first kids/family cd! Today was our first day and our plan is to work on this for the next few weeks. The goal is to hopefully have everything completed by this fall (September)! So far we have enough money to record about 6 songs and we have 9. We will be doing a few things to try and raise some money for the remainder of the songs but for now are going forward with what we've got.
(the girls were so excited about hearing themselves sing.)
We are excited about this and hope it will be fun and a blessing to all that hear it!
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