Route 66

My Mom has the opportunity to drive a box truck from Indiana to Los Angeles for a dealership. She would "convoy" with my grandparents (who were also driving a truck )to LA, deliver the truck and fly back home - about 2000 miles to drive in 3 days.

Below are some photos from the trip that my Mom took from the truck.  Listen to the classic song, “Route 66” because it’s a very accurate description of all the towns they passed on the way to CA.

“Well, it goes through Saint Louis, Jopin, Missouri…”

“..you’ll see Amarillo…”

“…and Gallup, New Mexico.”

Hotel in, “…Flagstaff, Arizona…”

“…Kingman, Barstow…”

“San Bernadino!”

Little Cody

   On the third day one of the trucks had to stay behind and some logistical problems ensued, but thankfully the Lord worked out  away  where Mom was still able to catch her flight from California and was able to return home safely!

Thanksgiving @ CFC

Cody Winton and Ben Serven share a classic...
We went to the annual Thanksgiving service held by Covenant Family Church in Troy, MO.  As the evening came to a close a couple of the young men, Ben Serven and Cody Winton, started singing some a very jazzy “White Christmas.”
Partly based off of the “White Christmas” recorded by Michael Buble…certainly prefer Cody over Shania Twain!
Corrected: This is actually the version of White Christmas that "The Drifters" popularised.
 

Still playing dress up…

I kept found us dressing up in costumes, for various reasons, all weekend long. Below are a few photos showing varying outfits from this weekend:

Airsoft garb

Benjamin dressed up as a shooting instructor

I’m working on piecing together a WWII era outfit.  I think the only things I need to get finish my basics are a service cap, leggings, and a proper tie.

Tobymac Success: Victory or Defeat?

Scott Brown recently posted a great article about the state of Christian music, in the light of TobyMac’s great hit, “Eye on It.”  ToyMac is becoming the first Christian artist in the past fifteen years to achieve the number one position on the Billboard Music Chart.  Scott Brown attributes the success of this song in both the Christian and secular world to a spiritual famine.  Read the full article here: http://scottbrownonline.com/tobymac-success-victory-or-defeat/

I’ve posted the song below:

 

I found this article to be interesting, because I do agree with Scott Brown even though I used to be a fan….or maybe just a listener…of TobyMac/DC Talk many years ago.

Short Video Shoot

  We were invited to help film a short video Stephen Littman was filming with the rest of his crew.

  Benjamin played the lead in a crime scene and a short fighting scene that I was also in.

  I should be able to post a link to the video fairly soon, but until then take a look at the behind-the-scenes video below: 

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Barbarini's Tambourine–Dance

Comical Fellow-Dance

  I assume that being a “comical fellow” means that you may have a good sense of humor, but is it a good thing to be comical in reference to dancing?

Shooting Skeet

  We’ve become friends with the men at our local butcher shop and one of them graciously invited us to shoot skeet with him at skeet and trap club.

Shooting near the high house

It was our first time officially shooting skeet, though we have shot trap.

Shooting near the low house

In trap the target flies straight away from you; in skeet the the target flies past you from left to right and bottom to top and from right to left from bottom to the ground-sometimes both at the same time!

Our host is quite an accomplished shooter in competition and taught us the basics of stance, aiming (technically “pointing” when referring to a shotgun), and showed us the stations for skeet shooting.