This past weekend our church choir and orchestra put on a Broadway-style musical named The Christmas Post. 

It was completely top-notch, and Christy is responsible for that (along with the people that worked their butts off to learn their lines), and of course, the LORD.


I'm very proud of the volunteers that came together to put on this show.  It is by far the most excellent and complicated production we've ever done. 


My long online silence is due to working on this show along with the Winter Olympics and a film I helped orchestrate.  Life has been crazy lately, but good. 

What's all the fuss about?

I. Love. Lists. (and jackets).

So here's another list:


1) Last Friday Christy and I celebrated TEN YEARS of marriage.  Ten whole years! Can you believe it!?!  I can't...time has flown by so quickly...I celebrated my 30th b-day and 10 year anniversary in the matter of the same 6 days.  Wow. So after ten years, I do have something to say to the 11.5 people that read this thing: 

INVEST IN YOUR MARRIAGE.

Having a good marriage is not a cake walk.  Maintaining a good marriage is like maintaining a car.  What happens if you never maintain your vehicle? It eventually breaks down, costs a lot to fix, and/or breaks beyond repair. A good marriage will not last if it's ignored.  You need to work on it.  You need to put in the right kind of fuel.  You need to get new tires and brakes every once and a while...and other miscellaneous car terminology goes here.  Carberator.  Spark Plugs.  Clutch.  Ummm...

Like anything that is good in life, it takes hard work and ongoing commitment.  Don't expect that you can use cruise control in your relationship with your spouse.  It doesn't work, GUARANTEED.

So this past week my parents were generous enough to come down and spend five days with our boys so Christy and I could get out of town and be together.  We went to Vegas and stayed for four nights in a few different hotels (Venetian, Bellagio, and Trump International to be exact) and got to eat out at tasty restaurants and see the Cirque Du Soleil LOVE show featuring music from The Beatles.  We saved up money for several months for the trip, and we knew it was going to be expensive, but it was WORTH it.  It was a solid investment into our relationship as friends and spouses.  And although we could never afford to do something like that every year,  it was a blast!  Take the time and money to INVEST in your marriage--and not just once every ten years--do it often!  It's totally worth it.


2) Christmas came early this year for Nathaniel & Noah:
Since my parents were here the whole week, they decided to give the kids their Christmas present early and get an 11' trampoline for our backyard.  The kids LOVE it...
But that's not all...they also laid sod in the backyard, along with 1/2 ton of pea gravel and a clubhouse made out of a refrigerator box for the boys.  N & N must have been in heaven all week...Our backyard was previously a pile of dirt with a strange brick patio in the middle of it, and now it's a magical place of jumpiness.  Noah keeps asking for just a feeeeeeeeeewwwwwww more minutes???!?


3) Ah shoot.  I ran out of things on my list. 

LOVE.

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