Well, it has been a long time since our last post, at least, a long time in “blog years”. I am plenty busy running the family, but we are surviving and adapting. I have lots to post here, and I’ll get to it someday. Be prepared to read things we did as long ago as Christmas!
News from Cyndi, in case you haven’t heard already: she got a 5.0(straight A’s) in January. At MIT. After basically cramming a semester’s worth of work into one month. Clearly, she went to the right school! We talk every night before going to bed, and I can assure you she is working hard and long into the night on all her homework, because after I say goodnight and tuck myself in, she goes back to work. Obviously, this ethic has paid off so far. I am very proud of her.
The boys played at church again on Sunday for Youth Sabbath, and I played a couple of tunes with them when I was not running the sound system. Both boys did fantastic. Adam put a lot of effort into a drum arrangement for a song he learned at Rock and Roll camp last summer, and he collaborated with Aaron the week before church so that they were ‘on the same page’, then added the vocal part and me on guitar about one hour before church started. Aaron once again amazed me with new ways to play the Our Father, and he got tapped to learn a new song and play it right before church started. In a few minutes, he had it nailed and by the time he did it for the church, he was adding decorations and passing tones. I was beaming at him from the sound console! The boys have come a long way since learning these instruments at the beginning of 2008. Both of them are quite skilled, and just as important, confident and enjoying themselves.
Afterwards, two of the youth group came over to record a CD on my equipment. Although we only did two songs, it was a lot of work. Some tracks were laid down perfectly, some tracks took more than one take, and we “punched-in” a few things to clean up a few mistakes. Aaron got his first gig as “studio musician” when he was tapped to add a bass track to one of the songs to fatten it up. The CD sound great, so I plan to post it on our website soon.
Oh, and Arianna had a guest over at the same time. Oh, and we made cookies, chili and chicken at the same time. Oh, and we had a CD release party for dinner while we burned the discs. Oh, and we totally cleaned the kitchen before and after the party. All this on a Sunday…
That’s all for now, time to go back under water…