Enjoying the Christmas break with family. Heading out to see the National Treasure sequel this afternoon. We saw Enchanted while at the beach last week. Everyone enjoyed it and we would recommend it. Hopefully Disney gets this one right, too.
Picture is of Tammy, Terry, and Luke, as we sat down to Christmas dinner at mom and dad’s.
It’s the last 2 weeks of our preparation for the 18th Annual Presentation of the Gospel According to Scrooge at Faith Assembly.
You’d think after 18 years (along with my 3 years of Scrooge in Ocala) this would be getting easier. Nope.
But neither is it less fun. The challenge of getting 120 people on the stage, along with all the stage and technical crews, moving in the same direction is always fun. Not always good fun, but fun anyway.
Here’s a picture from last night during the “Ring the Bells” song. I’ll also be posting this on the Scrooge blog.
Best sign from the game tonight – “You Have Been Percycuted”.
I would add “and Tebowned.”
The only Heisman question is – who’s #2?
(Photo from Yahoo and the AP.)
Just posted the latest episode of the Church Drama Podcast. It’s our Thanksgiving Show, though no one dressed up as Pilgrims or Indi- uh, native Americans. Another fun show.
An Entirely Other Day – The Third Magisterium.
Absolutely brilliant post. Or stupid. I’m not sure. I just wish I had said it first.
I have all of our pictures from Trunk or Treat in a Web Gallery on .Mac. You should be able to view all the pix and download your favorites!
We participated in our first Trunk or Treat Wednesday night. It was great. We had a big turnout. There were over 60 cars and a bunch of kids in costume. And a bunch of adults in costume, too.
Everyone seemed to have a good time. It was fun to walk around, seeing everyone at their decorated cars, passing out candy.
Of course, one of the most talked about things – or people – was the couple of Pastor and Naomi. At least, it looked a lot like them. (Sam and his friend, Adam, if you don’t know. Sam has the wig.)
Spent Thursday and Friday at a great event hosted by Convoy of Hope at the Sawgrass TPC. It was a last-minute generous invite.
For those of you that don’t know, Sawgrass is home to the PGA headquarters. We got to play the Dye Valley Course on Thursday, followed by the TPC Stadium course on Friday. Steven Porter and myself played the two-man scramble together, shooting an 82-80, finishing 2nd in our flight. (Yes, we were in the bottom flight.)
One great moment was on the famous 17th hole on the Stadium course. After making it safely on the green with my tee shot, I had almost the exact same putt as Tiger’s famous “better…than…most” shot. 
His was better than mine, too, when mine BARELY lipped out. Still, a par there felt pretty good.
Got a few pictures (including some of the hotel that I didn’t post) including the 17th and 18th holes, plus the clubhouse.
Convoy raised over $800,000 at the event to help their efforts around the world. Ironically, while I was there, I found out that my nephew, Nathan, is currently interning with COH and will travel to China in a few weeks.
Overall, it was a lot of fun. And what takes more hope than golf? Especially on a world-class course like the TPC?
A heads-up just in case you forgot…tomorrow is one of the best holidays on the calendar. Even though it’s not really a holiday (because we don’t get off work and no cook-outs are involved).
Break out your eye patch – it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Best of all, the card companies haven’t caught on to this and we don’t have to troll the card aisle for a ridiculous card to waste money on.
Yo-ho-ho.
Just got done with our Friday Family TV Night Tradition Thing. We love to watch Monk and Psych, two shows on the USA network. They have a weird schedule, where they show about six shows, then take a few months off. So, now we have to wait until January for new episodes. Sigh.
Numbers comes back (on CBS) in a couple of weeks. Another favorite.
Trudi and I saw the new Mr. Bean movie the other night. Pee-Wee Herman is Mr. Bean’s American cousin. Stupidly funny.
September means football and football means…fantasy football and pick-em’s and all sorts of other time-wasting activities associated with football.
Got to go to G’ville and let Shae experience her first Gator game on Saturday. It was almost the full enchilada. Rode up with Gary Robles and his son Adam, parked in our traditional parking area, made the walk past the union and up to the stadium, then spent about an hour looking for tickets to scalp.
But Shae loved it, the Gators won (despite a sloppy third quarter), and we got home safely – about 2:30am.If you haven’t seen it, here’s a kid who taught himself to play the piano by listening to Little Einstein CD’s. (I saw this on Jeff Leake’s blog.)
The kids slept in this morning while I went to the business session of the General Council. A new superintendent was elected for the A/G – George Wood. Alton Garrison was elected as the new Assistant Superintendent and John Palmer was chosen to replace Bro. Wood as the General Secretary.
Just after noon we got word that the kids had been chosen in the callbacks for their small drama group. Out of 124 entries, they were one of only 17 callbacks.
We spent a couple of hours practicing and getting ready for their big performance. And it was…um…well, I think we were all a little disappointed.
Don’t get me wrong – they did well once again. But it wasn’t their best. And the crowd didn’t seem to be with them at all. But they already exceeded our goals by getting a callback, so we’re pretty happy. It will be interesting to see tomorrow if they made it into the top 10.
After more of the business session, we went to Buca di Beppo with Pastor Goss and his family, where we ate ALOT of Italian food.
On the way back to the hotel, we swung by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, then by a fancy mall so I could look at the new iMac in the Apple store.
Last day in Indy tomorrow.