Music- Belinda loves music of all kinds. The background music is a recording of a song she and her daughter sang in church.  They sound so much alike it is hard to tell them apart. She sings the verse then switches to alto when her daughter Sam takes the lead.  She added this one for her Daddy. Her favorite's are Gospel, Country, & Classical (which her momma calls long haired music) She started singing early. The earliest she can remember is laying on her  momma's lap in the swing and Anne  trying to get  Belinda and Jim to take a nap,  she would sing that Doggie in the Window and a little song she  called the Paper Boy song. Belinda  would try and sing but Anne would say shhhhh listen. Do you hear that? Soon the two would be fast asleep. She recently told me this. " My daddy's rich bass voice and my momma's beautiful alto blended a lot of times together to make me smile more than once when I was small. I still feel a great deal of peace in my heart when I hear those two voices together I know all is right in my world."

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She also plays a little piano and a tenor sax. She  played in the Betsy Layne High School Band.  Where she won several awards in the all county competitions. She also sang with the Prestonsburg High School Choir where she was invited to attend because her school did not have a choir She had about a years worth of lessons on the piano and then she taught herself to play her way.   She is currently playing the keyboard for her singing group Second Generation Vocal Band Music Ministry

Singing -  She has been involved with singing in public since she was very young. She sang her first solo in the church when she was 12 and has been doing so every since. She also won several awards in the all county vocal competition. She was a part of the Cutler Ridge Ensemble Class and received an award her 9th grade year as well. Although she won a full scholarship to Pikeville College she decided to be a mother instead.  She has said many times she wishes she had stuck that out and become a music teacher like she had planned and then had her children.  She sings with a group called  The Second Generation Vocal Band,  they sing southern gospel.   They  have no formal  recording as of yet but hope to get one together someday soon.  She knows God will lead her the direction she needs to go and depends on that daily.  The group is  just starting to do a little traveling in and around the East Texas area. They are having a good time doing this and know that with the Lord in it they will always get a blessing from doing so.  If you would like to hear them, check out their website below and find out how to  contact them please see the  see the link below.                                                              Second Generation Web Site

Painting: She loves to paint also. From houses to ceramics and has  just recently started painting some pictures thanks to a birthday present she said from her mother and I.

 

Gardening: Belinda loves to piddle in her flower beds! "I love pretty flowers and have a secret ambition to become a landscaper I think!" She grins." I do love to make things bloom and grow. For me it is a sure sign God is there to see the perfection of a flower and the sweet scent that often accompanies it. To me there is no greater place to witness God's miracle's than in nature. If it be from something as tiny as a flower or an ant, to as big as an  ocean or a raging storm!  Oh so much of God is in all these things."

Belinda@danielfamily.us