Just watch out for this sort of thing before you grab that drumstick. [youtube=amp;rel=1]Happy Thanksgiving!

On Friday night, Jenn’s parents arrived in town. They flew in and will be staying with us in our tiny one-bedroom apartment. They’ll be here through Thanksgiving and into the following week. It doesn’t seem like they mind the close quarters and we’re loving having them here. It’s always pretty fun to get to hang with Jenn’s family. They laugh a lot! After this really stressful week/weekend, we’re taking a couple of days and seeing my sister, brother-in-law and their two beautiful twin daughters, Clara and Nora.

It’s pretty difficult to not enjoy these two kids, and their parents are pretty cool too. They don’t do much yet (their only three months old, but man are they cute. We’ve gotten to give Alison and Craig a little break and help out around the house and there have been no shortage of baby holding opportunities (good thing there’s two of them). I also like coming up here, because, hopefully it scratches any itch Jenn might be getting. I love having nieces and nephews; you can play with them, buy them gifts and if they crap, cry or whine you can give them right back to mommy and daddy. Not sure I’m ready to handle the rolls being reversed.

I thought I’d include a couple of pictures of them so you all understand what the cutest babies in the world look like.

This was perhaps the most difficult week of my young, music directing career. We just finished our 6 week long, church-wide small group series (that’s a mouthful) on the Miracles of Jesus. Across our entire church, people got connected with new groups, met in people’s houses and studies the amazing things Jesus did in his ministry.

This weekend celebrated that in style with a ton of music, drama and taking the Lord’s Supper together. We did gospel music with our choir, rocking modern worship, piano lead, meditative music for taking the Lord’s Supper and did a drama song package using a song from the broadway show, “Wicked.” All of it done by volunteers. I tell you, there is no other place I would rather be than Clovis Hills. Even though we worked our volunteers more this week than we probably should have (sorry everyone) they came through like nobody’s business and did an amazing job!

4 very different styles of music using multiple singers and musicians and it was amazing. This week, though, in the midst of all of the stress I think I forgot why I do what I do. The business of it all just got really overwhelming and I was frustrated. Thankfully, Frank (one of our amazing volunteers) and I got to do something special this Saturday that helped me remember what any sort of gifting I have is for. We got to lead worship for a small group of people at Valley Children’s Hospital. A woman I don’t know has a daughter I don’t know who is 9 years old and fighting Leukemia. Most of the people there were from another church, but it was an amazing time of getting together, singing songs to God and asking for this little girls life. I was told by a few people how meaningful it was but honestly, I think God helped me more than anyone else. More than big production numbers, various styles of music or great sound equipment, my job is about praising Jesus and blessing people.

That’s what I got to do and it was amazing!

I don’t normally, get starbucks in the morning.

 We have some pretty amazing coffee at home, thanks to Jenn and a fantastic supply of creamers to go with it. 

But today I went.

It’s red again.

I love Christmas.

I don’t normally, get starbucks in the morning.

 We have some pretty amazing coffee at home, thanks to Jenn and a fantastic supply of creamers to go with it. 

But today I went.

It’s red again.

I love Christmas.

okay,

So there have been a ton of blog - worthy things going on and I have just been too swamped to talk about them. So today and tomorrow I will be inundating this site with all of the stuff I should have written about over the last two weeks.

Here’s the first.

I never went to a lot of concerts growing up. For a long time it was just something I thought my parents wouldn’t let me do and then I just didn’t want to spend the money. In the last year, though, we’ve seen all kinds of great shows and October 27th was one of them. Jenn and I (along with Dave and Kimberly MacNeill) saw Little Big Town and Sugarland.

I know what you’re thinking. Those bands hardly sound like face melting rock and roll playing bands, and you’re right. But, these two groups were friggin’ amazing. It’s country music, which I suppose I am a closet fan of and these groups were unbelievable. A ton of energy, amazing harmonies and, even though I couldn’t understand a word of Sugarland lead singer, Jennifer Nettles’ speaking voice, her singing voice is unreal.

So if you’re looking for a great country show to go to, which many of you are not (though it was awesome so back off!) this was the one to see.

I may regreat saying this, but…yeehaw!

okay,

So there have been a ton of blog - worthy things going on and I have just been too swamped to talk about them. So today and tomorrow I will be inundating this site with all of the stuff I should have written about over the last two weeks.

Here’s the first.

I never went to a lot of concerts growing up. For a long time it was just something I thought my parents wouldn’t let me do and then I just didn’t want to spend the money. In the last year, though, we’ve seen all kinds of great shows and October 27th was one of them. Jenn and I (along with Dave and Kimberly MacNeill) saw Little Big Town and Sugarland.

I know what you’re thinking. Those bands hardly sound like face melting rock and roll playing bands, and you’re right. But, these two groups were friggin’ amazing. It’s country music, which I suppose I am a closet fan of and these groups were unbelievable. A ton of energy, amazing harmonies and, even though I couldn’t understand a word of Sugarland lead singer, Jennifer Nettles’ speaking voice, her singing voice is unreal.

So if you’re looking for a great country show to go to, which many of you are not (though it was awesome so back off!) this was the one to see.

I may regreat saying this, but…yeehaw!