Holiday Recap

Can I just say that my Turkey cooked in a crockpot was amazing??? I highly recommend it. I have to pat myself on the back and say that my entire meal turned out so good!! Well, except the sweet potatoes. They were runny. I will not be buying canned, pureed sweet potatoes again. But, live and learn. They were the only thing that didn't turn out like I'd hoped.

I am proud to say that I took care of the entire meal and didn't get stressed out! Barb and Buddy cleaned it all up and for that I am so grateful. We had some leftovers, which I wrapped up in tortillas the next day for lunch but I think we're pretty well through most of them now. Time to start meal planning for this pay period. I think we'll be having a hashbrown stirfry tonight. Oh, and there are some pictures of us putting up the tree. Yes, we put it up Thanksgiving Day because we just couldn't wait anymore :) I talked Blake out of the 1200 lights he wanted to buy at GardenRidge, so he got 800. It looks really pretty, but also looks like it's about to take flight into space... who needs indoor lighting when you have a Bolerjack Christmas Tree?

Thanksgiving 09

July 4th weekend

Us driving around sometime in June I think

We had such a wonderful holiday weekend. Blake got back from Nashville Thursday around lunch time and was trying to cram a lunch in with a Pastor, allergy shots, and then an eye doctor appt. all in the rest of the day. Needless to say he arrived home from his TN trip totally exhausted. He had dark bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. He had to drive there after his evening concert in Moore 2 weekends ago. Here is that church (with our trailer):


And here is the morning church he sang at in Kingfisher. Itsy bitsy! But a wonderful time. It was a Church of God so they were so enthusiastic and outwardly expressive of their enjoyment. We love going to all denominations, and feel that is our calling, but there are definitely some denominations that are more outwardly fun....but I totally understand it's just a difference of personalities, not a measure of how much they truly enjoy the concert if some people worship inwardly rather than outwardly (and at full volume) ;)


Oh, so anyway. We went to Blake's eye doctor appointment Thursday after I got off work and we got him a new prescription since the one he'd been using never seemed to click right for him. So then he was all happy and we decided to check out the frames they had at the store next door. Blake's glasses, poor things, were barely hanging on for dear life. They're all bent and the lenses popped out frequently. And the lenses had developed an irreversible fog to them, we couldn't get them clean! They were all scratched and just permanently foggy. So he tried on a bunch of frames and we found some that look awesome! They're a little more "pop" than he's used to, but I definitely think they look so great. Handsome hubby. Changing glasses takes a lot of guts, you know? The pictures don't do him justice :) Gotta see them in person.


I had Friday off work, so we went to two movies back to back in the morning! That was fun and then we came home and practiced for our concert at FBC Moore on Sunday. We'd kind of forgotten (or procrastinated) that it was a patriotic weekend...so we were trying to find some good patriotic songs to sing. After not being able to find any good medley's that the audience could sing along with, we decided just to do a classic. He did an awesome song by The Booth Brothers called "Under God", then he sang the Prayer Force One theme song and told the funny story of how he made a music video for them...(he'll kill me for posting that link but I think it's great. When you watch it just know it's not up to Blake's standards of how he likes things.) And then...dun dun dun, he sang "God Bless the USA". Can I just say that this was a "bring the house down hit" last night! We had about 700 people attend the concert last night because the church included a free chicken dinner and concert together. FBC Moore always loves Blake and he goes often to sing there. It was packed! But in typical banquet style, people have a great time but also talk a lot while the entertainment's going. But Blake did a great job and kept on singing and really did a Class A job. He always does. It was so cute, they broke up his singing set into two sections, a larger one that lasted about 30 min, then a second 15 min set or so. In between, the Pastor got up to talk a little and during that, Blake was swarmed for autographs. Ha ha! He was a little embarassed but thought it was fun. I ran sound and it was a little difficult because I was positioned under a low overhang while the audience sat out in the open with extrememly high ceilings. So I had to keep stepping out from under the overhang to make sure the sound was good since it was so different for me where I was standing (it gets muffled when the ceiling height changes and is hard to have an accurate idea of what the audience is really hearing). But I think I did a good job. Here are some pics of the night and a quick video of God Bless the USA..my camera on my phone only takes 43 sec. films...so sorry!

Stage set, waiting for the "go ahead"

Blake singing pretty

Crowd shots on one end of the room

More crowd...eating chicken

Small clip of Blake singing
"God Bless the USA"