CD Release Party & Weekend

We just got back last night around midnight from a crazy weekend. This past Friday Blake's NEW CD was officially released woo hoo! And not a moment too soon. Friday night we drove to Perryton TX for a CD Release Party that Saturday morning. We got to Perryton and had a cozy night and then woke up to SLEET! It was icy outside, we were totally surprised. But, we packed up our stuff and headed over to His Corner Bookstore and Cafe at Community Worship Center for some coffee and CD sales :) We had several brave souls show up and buy a CD and take us up on our Free coffee with purchase offer. I got a Chai Tea with raspberry in it...I loved it. So the release party was from 11-1 and then we went over to First Baptist for soundchecks and load-in. We were so glad we did that in the afternoon and got it out of the way because it was just so cold the rest of the day and it actually snowed a bit. We came back and my mother-in-law had the fireplace going and so it was toasty. We all sat around and talked about decorating stuff...it was great! I guess Blake's parents plan to redo some flooring in their house so we were looking at what they'd picked out. We actually got to bed on time and it was a good day.

Then we had an early morning at First Baptist, Blake did a full concert there and we tried out our very first Hymns program! I think we pulled it off. I'd bought a video clip to introduce "It Is Well" before Blake sang it and that was a good decision-people were moved by it. The program itself I think needs some tweaks, I know the music was good and Blake sang it well, but we always want our programs to just be riveting from start to finish and I dont' think it has that quality yet. We'll get there! I have to say, no matter how good, I don't know if a "hymns concert" will ever be riveting. Engaging, maybe touching...but probably not riveting.

We sold a ton of CDs. It was great. After the morning service we tore down quickly and ate at Blake's parents house then we were on the road again to our night concert in Pampa, TX. My grandparents live there so they came to the night concert. It was so good to see them and my grandma got me some towels for a housewarming present! So sweet! Look at this church, isn't it cute? It was probably only 25-30 feet deep. I had a little trouble running the sound since the room was so small, but I think I pulled it off and didn't hurt anyone's ears.

We finished the concert up and loaded up and were on the road back to OKC at 8pm and we were STARVING! But we wanted to get home as fast as possible since both Blake and I had to work in the morning. So it wasn't until about 10:00 that we found some food--it took us that long to get from the back country roads and onto a highway. We stopped at Long John Silvers and waited and waited on our food. It was frustrating! But we finally got to eat. Then we got home and tallied up all the business records and got a little organized and got into bed at 1am. Ugh, too late!

Tonight my mom is coming up and my friend to help me and Blake paint some rooms in our house. Our goal is to finish the master bed tonight and the laundry room and maybe start priming another bedroom? Who knows!