It's December! Do you have your tree up?

Hi to all! Well, can you believe here it is Dec. 2nd? Christmastime! How many of you already have your tree up and lights on your house? Well, our tree is up - but the ornaments arent. I have a goal of getting that done today. I told my kids if they cleaned the house we could do it! Hee hee hee. I need something to lift my spirits - today is hard since it is two months from the day that Dad died. BUT I'M NOT GOING THERE on this blog! See, I said that with conviction, to intimidate myself into not going there again. If you read my last blog, you'll see I've already went there this week, and am crying now because I just read it again! Thank you to my friends who read that and left comments and are and have been praying for me. So shall we move onto something happy? I have just the thing!

Speaking of Christmas - I am all about this game that I say we are getting Dakota for Christmas, but it's really for me. It is so AWESOME! I'm sure you've heard of dance dance revolution - well this is just like it, but it is all christian rock - it is called Dance Praise. They just came out with the second version which is supossed to be way better than the first one, and I CANT WAIT TO PLAY!!! Now please know that I do not like to move quickly and certainly will avoid a bead of sweat at all costs. However, I AM A DANCING MACHINE!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh, those arrows start dropping from the screen and my feet are on fire! I just push through the pain. (at 210 pounds - the pain isn't far off, believe me, but once I dance through it, I'm good to go!) Andy and I like to try to beat each others scores. I love being competitive with him on something! Yall, I actually sweat! Like, you know, when the back of your shirt is wet - major sweat, and I'm in the zone and can't be stopped! Guess who is expecting to lose weight over the coming months..... ME! I can just feel the calories burning off with every step. The great thing about it is that it isn't really dancing, so you don't feel stupid. I am going to go find a link to the website so you can watch the video and see how cool it is for yourself. Youth groups are doing this and it is such a fun activity!
www.digitalpraise.com
look at dance praise 2 - the remix and watch the video! I cannot tell you how much fun it is! My neices (ages 7 and 9) have the original version that came out two years ago and the whole family plays it when they come to visit! The ONLY drawback is that you can only play it on the computer. If you have a notebook, I guess then you could plug it into your t.v. Did I mention how FUN this game is? Make sure you check out the website!

We are also getting ready for some Christmas stuff at church. One thing we are doing that I need to update you on is we are actually working on the interpretive movement that I posted at the bottom of this blog! It is SO exciting! We (me, Andy, Leann, Adrian, Janee, Tanner, Perry) are doing the movement out at Phil and Melissas camp on the 14th. By the way - you should check out www.cedarspringscamp.org (could be .com - somebody correct me if I am wrong) for yourself. Our church is doing a Christmas party out there, with Karna working on a christmas program, and we'll have food and all kinds of good stuff. I think it is a surprise for the teens. I am telling you, this interpretive movement is powerful. If you havn't seen it yet, scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on it, and scroll back up to watch it. We have seen several different versions, and taken the best elements from each, and are combining it into one. Please pray for us to do a good job to really impact the kids and hopefully their families who will be watching it. We only have one more practice, and we were still ironing out things today, so keep praying. This all really just came together over the last few weeks. It's so neat to identify what God wants you to do, through confirmation from others - Leann really has felt a lot of leading about this after she watched it, and we've been able to see reaction from some of the people watching us practice, and it is neat to be a part of something like that. I am excited because we have some working in the movement that usually don't and I'm hoping they may be moved to be a bigger part of our drama ministry. How many of you out there have a drama ministry in your church? I love ours. I hope that you are blessed with one as well.
Pretty soon you will be able to get on our church website and see some of the more recent things we have done - my friend Adrian is working on getting that updated and I will post a link as soon as it is ready.

Well, my kiddo's are ready to decorate!!! I need to get off here anyway, because I just keep looking at the clock. It is almost 4:00 and believe me, you don't want me on here then, or this blog may end up like the last one! Two months ago right now I was sitting on the end of Dad's bed and he was just staring at me and I was looking into his eyes, smiling. I just wanted to give him a feeling of calmness, and love. I didn't want to speak to him because I knew he couldn't speak back. Sometimes I wonder now if in his mind he was telling me goodbye, that maybe he knew it was about to happen. OH WELL!!!! Maybe I should just write a book or something to "get it all out". You know? Anyway - leave a comment if you can. I love to read them. Hope you guys are having a great start to your Dec. I'm about to go get festive! My next goal would be doing lights outside, but I don't know if I'm that festive today! Time to go rock around the Christmas tree!