New Year's Eve

It is New Year's Eve...tomorrow we will have to remember to write 2009 on everything we fill out.... what a year it has been! So many great things happening at the church...new people in the worship ministry... gosh it has been a year full... of course lots of other changes in worship too....David went to Branson to sing in one of the shows.. he has done a great job there... Chuck went to Hagerman to lead worship and Robby went to Anna to lead worship...both are doing a fantastic job!!!! We miss all of them! As the year has ended we have lost one of our sound guys, Billy, he will be missed.. still such a shock to all of us!
The end of the year has been REAL busy for us since around October 21st when we began work on the Fall Festival... seems like from there the weeks just ran together until we finished singing Christmas songs on December 13th for the Songs of the Season. The parades, commercial, concert/show all came together so nice with so many people helping out!
On a personal note Ashley got moved back to Denton at the end of July..wasn't long after that her car was broken into...Andy started college at Grayson... and was working at BattsAVI for a while... Ashley had tire problems, Andy had radiator problems and so did Steve... then Andy's transmssion went out on his truck and Steve's rear end went out on his truck... seems those pictures of us working on cars in the driveway became a huge reality yet again!!!Through it all God was good and took care of us.. he sent angels to help us out and provided ways for us to get it all covered... He is so good!
I am looking forward to 2009..... it has been so exciting to see God put things back together at Fairview... and to see some faces that were there before come back to worship with us... like a family reunion... we have missed them too!
Andy is looking for work and will continue in school at Grayson, Ashley is getting back in school at NCTC and continues working as a nanny for now... Steve and I continue serving at Fairview and I am working for the schools in Technology... great things are a head of us!!

Almost 09

Can't believe it is almost the end of another year! What a busy last few months it has been. Starting on about Oct 21st... we began building the big fun house for the Fall Festival.. I also traveled to Boston before Halloween... after that was over and the nearly 2 week tear down we began working on the parade float... with rehearsals also going for the Songs of the Season event.... The parades were fun... we took best of parade in Denison and just had a lot of fun in Sherman... we tore the float down that night and set the church back up the next day... and began looking ahead to the "Songs of the Season" that was another busy week and weekend... Andy was working as a Holiday temp at Academy during all this time too...so he was working 12 hour shifts and getting in at 1am ..... so we were all worn out!!!
So now Christmas has come and gone.... Ashley and Alex came up and celebrated with us... after Christmas Eve lunch we did a Christmas Eve service and then took Andy to Red Lobster for his 19th birthday... then home for gifts... and Santa even had to come early so that we could get Asley and Alex back on the road to Granbury.... I started feeling sick on Christms Eve so I have really stayed down and rested since then... Looking forward to all that is to come in the new year...