It's Already Over Now...

Yup! The Christmas Program at church is over! After a long while of working on it, tonight was the night. We showed up early to practice, puttered around for a little, then a horrid burst of static and fearful noise eng-swmf-SPLODED out of the speakers. Turns out it was Dad's electric drums acting up (who knows what the problem is, but I'll be praying about this one!). Tonight of all nights? Nothing could be done and Dad would just have to sit in the audience and watch and not play drums. Suddenly I got veeeerrrrrrrry nervous. I still don't know why... I play the keyboard at church every week! Maybe it was because we had worked on this so much and put so much thought into this one AND Dad wasn't gonna be up there. I think everyone else was a bit nervous too, but it turned out well and for the most part, everything functioned. The videos were great, and so were the cookies. God was there the whole time. Pam took a picture of the artful matching worship team minus Dad that maybe I'll post up here. Now I can let out a breath... wait - nix that. Wedding to shoot tomorrow! It's back to work!:P

If I don't post till Christmas.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!

Ya know what I love?

No, not the smell of that rubber handle on the putter that you know like a thousand other people have touched. THIS is a list of what I love in no particular order!

• The Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They each do such wonderful things and I see them working in different ways.
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  My family. Immediate and extended. I love the funny dads (or daD), goofy brothers, giggly sisters, cocky cousins, crazy uncles, and all and everything in between!
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  My church. AHBC. Everyone there is like family - you can talk theology one minute, argue song lyrics and football teams the next. Start out with Bible study, and end on the time when a mouse ran out from under the dresser. Laugh or cry as needed. Great people, great pastor, and I love every part of it there!
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  My friends. They call me on the phone if I don't live near them. We can laugh and cry together. We can talk about everything!
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  Books. God gave me approximately... (quick count) 7 unread books to read at once. It has been so much fun being swamped with books after a dry spell!!!
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  The Colts. And so does God. Love the Colts, that is:)
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  Christmas food. It's good stuff.
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  Time to run on the treadmill and burn off all the Christmas food. Which... I have not had in about a week and definitely will not have tomorrow... dear, dear.

It's fun to love! And Christmas brings love to the very top of you! Love, you people! LOVE!!!!

Happy Birthday Toria!!!!!

Welcome to your blog party doll-face!!!!!!!!!! Let's get started...

First you wake up, get dressed, all that, and get ready to do whatever you ORIGINALLY had planned for today. But there's a knock at the door. You open it and it is...

ME!!!!!!!!!! We begin to have a wonderful time, and you drag me about and I get to meet all your friends... wait - this sounds more like MY blog party. Uh... let's move along, shall we?:P

We watch a football game together (the WHOLE thing) - and the Colts beat the Patriots!!! Whoo-hoo!!! The whole time, we are eating...

Pounds and pounds of chocolate!!!!!!!!!! We'd best move along, we've got a plane to catch... oh wait. Someone's at the door.

I'm not sure who ends up freaking out more... I think me. Even though I ASKED them to come. But the only reason I invited Brett to come was so he could personally apologize to us for lying, then betraying Green Bay. But he does remember to tell you happy birthday through my screaming in his face. But Peyton has a good time:)

We've got to go. We'll take Peyton with us cuz he's going anyway - the Superbowl beckons. WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!! If Peyton's with us, it means he's NOT playing at the Superbowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arg. Make it the NFC Championship. Yeah. That's much better. Whew. We fly to Giants Stadium where Eli is warming up. He's playing da BEARS. We enter our VIP locker room passes so you can wish Eli good luck before the game, and Meggy can run to the Bears locker room and get the autographs of Brian Urlacher, Devin Hester, and Matt Forte and personally thank the latter for getting her into the FFL playoffs. (Hey, it's an excuse not to take a shotgun to Hixon, right?) Ok, to the box seats. They have great food. The president's up there too. Hello Mr. President with the reflexes of a puma!:P Who else is there... ah, hi Reggie Wayne!!!!!! You rock. WHAT??? FAVRE???? How'd you find us????? Ok, you can sit in the back far away from us as long as you cheer for Giants.

He seems pleased with himself, don't he? Alright, the game's starting!!!!!

4 hours later, after the Giants victory, we go down to the locker room again and Eli gets the chance to talk to us again. Lucky guy:P

He and Peyton even throw some with us and the rest of our lives we'll be able to say we caught passes from the Mannings. We get a whole book of autographs, and you get me out of there fast before I murder Hixon.

Well, I haven't given you a present yet! Here's what I got for you...

Lotsa land for your ZOO!!!!!!! Course it needs some work, but there's plenty of time for all that.

Well, my plane's about to leave and I must go home. But I hope you had a wonderful blog party dearest, and your REAL present is on it's way. *sigh* this was a lovely party. Someday I shall come up and we shall do all those things! Well, some of those things:)

Priceless

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80668817

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80389071