Tuesday’s the Day!!

Well it’s official. We go to the hospital tomorrow morning bright and early to deliver our new baby girl. They will induce labor for Kelly and hopefully things will go pretty fast. We are very excited.

Kelly was so relieved today when the doctor gave her the news. We were planning on this but there was always a chance that he would change his mind. She has been so uncomfortable and tired these last days and has had a difficult time keeping up with the boys.

I will try to keep everyone updated here on the blog as to how things are going and of course with pictures when she comes.

Also, I might try to setup a video feed of the day on Mogulus. We’ll see if they have wifi and if they’ll let me use enough bandwidth. I setup a channel at www.mogulus.com/finntube. So tune in and chat with us. Don’t worry we’ll only broadcast before and after the birth. We’ll keep it PG.

If you’re inclined, pray for us tomorrow. Thanks!

 

Crowder announces new guitarist

Just announced: The David Crowder Band will have a new guitarist for their Fall tour dates. Prop comedian Carrot Top will join the guys on the road beginning in late August. No word yet as to if this is a permanent addition to the line-up or not. There is much speculation about the relationship of the comedian to the worship leader. Many believe them to be distant cousins. There is a strange family resemblance…

Ok, so its not true, but it would make an interesting story. And imagine what CT could add to the live concert!

 

Baby Update

Kelly went to the doctor today for her weekly appointment. Now if you read yesterday, you know that we are both hoping that he wants to help the baby arrive this week. And by hoping I mean Kelly is desperately ready for this baby to come into the world and for mama’s life to somewhat come back to normal. She has not been sleeping well and playing with and just keeping up with our two boys has become a very difficult daily endeavor.

So it came as quite a blow to both of us but mostly to her when the doctor said that he wanted to wait another week before he would induce labor. We know that the doctor is making the best decision for the baby and that is the utmost importance. But its difficult nonetheless when mama’s as uncomfortable as she is. You know what they say, “if mama ain’t happy…”

All in all we know that God’s timing is not always in sync with ours. Hopefully, we can find contentment in that. If you feel inclined, please pray for Kelly to be able to get some rest and sleep and for us to be able to manage the family through another week. Also, please pray for a safe (and quick) arrival for baby and for the health of both baby and mama.

 

Baby #3

So much has gone on in the last year since I blogged last. Probably the biggest change in my life is a few days or at most a couple of weeks away. For those who don’t know, my wife Kelly is pregnant with our 3rd child right now. The baby’s not due until July 28th but we are hoping that maybe we’ll bring home a new addition sooner.

We are very excited to welcome a baby girl into our home. Aidan our 3 year old can’t stop talking about his baby sister. We’ll see how long that lasts once reality sets in for him.

Kelly goes to see her doctor again Monday morning and we are really hoping that he says we need to schedule the delivery for this week. This would be two weeks early but both of the boys were scheduled two weeks early as well.

Anyway, that’s the big news around our house. Thought I would update those who may read this from a distance who may not have known. Please pray for us as we look forward to the changes that will inevitably come.

 

For my #1 fan – Paul

Link to the person who tagged you — Paul. Thanks for giving me something to blog about.
- Post the rules on your blog.
- Write six random things about yourself.
- Tag six people at the end of your post.
- Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
- Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1. I like blueberry waffles. It’s the favorite weekend breakfast for me and Aidan to cook together.

2. I just finished a book about learning HTML and CSS and it was a page turner. I’m such a nerd.

3. I was in a band in college called the “Jiffy Deli Band.” Just typing that makes me wonder what we were smoking the night we came up with that one.

4. I once worked for a nationally known comedy recording artist. Willie P. Richardson the Phone Prankster.

5. In that job, I had to call gas stations and truckstops and try to sell them tapes and CDs to sell in their stores. And yes it was a lot like calling most customer support numbers nowadays…impossible to understand the person on the other end.

6. I’m a late-comer to the TV show Lost. And now I have to stay up late at night to watch old episodes online to catch up.

I’m tagging Romack, Angela, Philip, Maegan, Michael, and Kelly.

 

I’m back!!

Ok. So it’s been awhile, I mean a loooong while since I posted. Over a year. I’m going to try this blogging thing again. I won’t make any of the lame excuses of why I’ve been too busy or whatever. Thanks to all of you who have continued to check in on me and encourage me to come back. Especially you Paul. Thanks for sticking it out and posting comments every month for over a year. You re-define true friendship.

Look for more to come soon.

 

Tennis, Guitar Center, Traffic, and American Idol

It’s been awhile. I’m sorry! No excuses. No long explanation.

My day.

Today is Tuesday so that means that this morning I stayed home with the boys for a few hours while Kelly went out to play tennis. I know, I’m the greatest husband and yes my job is awesome because I can do this every week and its cool. So me and the boys played with toys and stuff, Trace took a nap and I got ready for work. About 9:30 am, I decided that, when Kelly got home, I would go to Guitar Center. Romack and I had planned on going this week to shop for cymbals for the church. I decided I would rather go today instead of Wednesday and he was good with that.

In hindsight, I guess this was not a good decision. Planning to leave Nac at 11:00 am, I headed to the office to drop off a couple things at 10 til. Had a couple of delays at the office and ended up leaving Nac about 11:30 am. Picked up Romack. Ran into traffic delays on the way to Houston. 45 mph behind 3 trucks on a 2 lane for several miles. Hit Guitar Center promptly at 2:15 pm (orig. planned arrival time was 1:00 pm) and we were planning on leaving by 3:30 pm so Romack could be back in Lufkin around 5:00 pm. Cymbal shopping went longer than expected and we left Guitar Center at about 4:30 pm. Racing to get home, we hit more traffic delays on I45 and a long delay on 59 due to a pretty bad accident. Dropped Romack off a little before 7:00 pm (his plans had changed from his previous need to be back at 5 pm) and stepped on the gas to get home. Home just before 7:30 pm.

When I got home, I apologized profusely to my wife for the trip taking longer than expected. She was disappointed that I hadn’t gotten home earlier but she was gracious and forgave me. (Have I mentioned how great she is?) I helped her put the boys to bed and we watched the end of American Idol (vote for Blake Lewis) and House together.

Summary: 1) Bad decision to go to Guitar Center today. I should have gone tomorrow when I had more time. 2) I have no idea why it took so long to get there and back. I’m still trying to figure that out. 3) We did pretty much figure out which cymbals to buy. They are not exactly what I was planning on ordering so it was a worthwhile trip. Romack walked out with a new cymbal. 4) My wife is awesome and I need to do something really nice for her soon.

Tomorrow is a new day with new challenges and opportunities. I’ll try to learn from mistakes made today and make tomorrow better.

Have a great TOMORROW!!

 

My Savior Lives – Crosspoint 3.18.07

 This is pretty much how we ended up Crosspoint this past Sunday. “My Savior Lives” was the new song we were teaching them. I am so proud of the folks on this worship team I handed them the chords and played them the recording for this song like a little more than an hour before this in addition to rehearsing the other songs. They pulled it off and stinking rocked. We will open with this one this week. BTW – the recording is straight from the board mix to CD. Pretty impressive for that.

 

 

Nugent joins Crowder Band

The David Crowder Band is back in the studio and will have a special guest appearance on the new album by none other than the infamous Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent. Nugent and Crowder together at last. The Crowder boys are chronicling the recording experience daily.

 

Crosspoint – 3/25/2007 Recap

I’ll try to be a little more brief with Crosspoint. Practice makes perfect.

 This was the 2nd week with the new T5, and it has exceeded my expectations. I have been trying to find a way to make an electric guitar play like an acoustic guitar for a couple of years now. I’ve tried to find a great clean tone and I’ve tried effect simulators to no avail. Taylor has uncovered the Holy Grail! That said on with the worship set.

 Crosspoint – 3/25/2007

Let The Praises Ring
All The Freed
Welcome/Announcements/Video
Because Of Your Love
My Savior Lives
Salvation Is Here (chorus)
Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing)
Message: “Love Your Neighbor”

Seriously, all pride aside, the whole set stinking ROCKED! The band was pumped and they delivered. Bottom line – people got excited and God got worshipped. We actually got some pretty decent audio recorded from the board and I recorded video from the back of the sanctuary this week so if I’ve got time I’ll try to put something up this week.

We introduced Let The Praises Ring last week and it was a rousing success. It got the students engaged and excited to worship. So we brought it back this week to open and then went into All The Freed. Lots of energy and celebrating.

After Crosspoint Mission Trip video, we did Because Of Your Love which always does well. They know it and sing out. Next, I decided to introduce a new song. We taught and lead My Savior Lives the new song from New Life Worship. Believe it or not I discovered this song on KAVX Sunday morning praise and worship. I know I was shocked too. This song is much like the high energy stuff that the Desperation Band is putting out and is also similar to some of the fist pumping tunes coming from Hillsongs United. I introduced this song to the band Sunday afternoon and they took it and ran. New songs are often hit or miss. This one was an instantaneous hit and a keeper. The students were in it and worshipping from the beginning. Then we sang a couple of choruses of Salvation Is Here and then into Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing). We did this similar to the new version on Brenton Brown’s Everlasting God CD. With a slight change to the chord progresion and the melody, it is not quite the same old played out version that we are all used to. We wrapped up with another chorus of My Savior Lives and then Kyle came to preach.

I missed Kyle’s message this week because I had to go home early to help Kelly with the kids. They were both not going to sleep and Aidan was screaming. Today we found out he has another ear infection. At least there’s a reasonable excuse.

Next week’s Crosspoint is going to be busy. Since we are off for Easter, we are doing an Easter message next week and doing a lot more music. Should be fun.