Need more 4 day weekends

Weekends are my favorite days of the week like I've posted before, I enjoy each one of them. 3 day weekends are even better although they are few and far between. But a 4 day weekend is absoulte bonus, paydirt, excellente', fabulous, any other great adjective you can think of insert here. And of course this one was a great one, plenty of food and football on Thursday with Thanksgiving, watching crazy people on Friday with a little shopping action, radio yesterday, and church and some more football today.

Thanksgiving was good and pretty much all of the food is gone except for a little turkey that will become turkey manhattans Monday night. Had my grandma and uncle over, Mom and Dad got some as well as Mom was a little under the weather that day, and we had fun just relaxing most of the day. Friday was off to face the crowds in BLACK FRIDAY, which for some odd reason is fun. Got some shopping done then came home got the kids and went back for seconds. During that time at the mall Tyson and I were in Game Stop getting him some games for Christmas when we got to the counter he said he wasn't feeling real good so we were trying to hurry to get out of the store got our stuff and was heading out when he went down to his knees and sorta passed out for a quick second. I think he just got to hot because there were a ton of people in there packed in. Carried him out of the store and he was fine then. Then later the power went out which was kinda cool.

Today we do my song again at church and I hope to keep it together a little better this time. It wasn't planned for us to do this song but due to circumstances beyond our control we had to replace a couple of the songs we were going to do and add a couple and mine happened to be one of them. We also get to do everyones favorites, Christmas music starts today. Those songs are wild because alot of them have chord changes on either every word or everyother word which makes for fun playing them......NOT!!!!!!!!!

Today's list of songs:
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
All Because Of Jesus - Fee
It's Not About Me - Me and Nate & Nate
You Are My Portion - Darrell Evans
Draw Me Close/ All In All - Name escapes me
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night (OK I'm kidding on that one)

A good and draining weekend

Weekends are my two favorite days of the week for many reasons but some weekend just seem to go by and it seems like there wasn't the relaxation that you were looking for or they fly by because you were totally swamped with activities and such. That was the case this weekend. Got to do the final broadcast of high school football on JOY FM then a little SRF which was good. Then come home and go to bed to get up at 3:30 am to be ready to head out between 4 and 5 am to go to Illinois to help move the McAllisters. Got to bed after midnight and didn't go to sleep til 12:30 or so, 3:30 comes awfully quick. Got up and got ready and waited looking out the window around 4. By 4:30 nothing, 5:00 nothing, 5:30 ok whats going on. Gave Stephen a call and no answer, did he already leave without me? Why aren't I still sleeping? Are we still going? All these questions are flying through my mind. At 5:45 my cell phone rings with someone on the other line saying, "I just woke up I'll be there in 20 minutes." He finally arrived at 6:30 or so and we were on our way. 6 hours there and 6 hours back along with a couple of hours to load up and we finally made it back here around 9:45 pm. Got them unloaded and set up then off to home around 11. Good fun filled day.

Went to church where I was a bit nervous like alot of Sundays but particularly this one was different, we were doing a song I wrote for the first time in front of the church. It went well at Heart Song so I was excited for it for this weeks service especially with the new series and what its about. Got time to play it and it started off good then BAM it hit me. Doing a quick little look around saw Tammy just smiling from ear to ear, looked in front of her and saw Mom & Dad and they were both into it. Starting to get a little choked up but I'm fine, then the chorus came and I could hear people singing along, whoa wasn't ready for that, now its a little harder to fight. Then I look around a little more and saw PK's Mom & Dad up front both smiling and singing and for some reason that just got me now its even harder to fight. Then saw people in moments of worship with hands raised and or eyes closed and thats when I gave up the fight and pretty much lost it. I always thought that it was a neat little song but seeing it being used for God's glory gave me a whole new perspective on it and I felt really appriciative for Him to use me in ways that just floor me. That was just totally cool. Had to regain composure to finish out the set, luckily the next song was one that I just play simple chords for. I really enjoy the worship experiences out there at The Branches, they totally rock.

Sunday Set List:
All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises - "oh my gosh it's" Paul Baloche
My Glorious - Delirious
Not About Me - Me with help from Nate & Nate
Give Us Clean Hands - Charlie Hall
I Surrender All - Judson Van something or other
Hosanna - Hillsong United