Today I had an experience that would only happen at Walmart during the holiday season. I bought something the other day and it ended up being broken so I thought I would just stop by on my way home from plainfield. I walked in from the cold after parking in the last row in the parking lot (that should have been my first clue that this could be bad). I walk over to the service desk after getting my item stamped at the front door with a pink sticker only to see a line of 10-15 people. It is only the 7th of December and there is already a line at the return desk. I waited patently along comes the a lady in her 60′s with a bright purple jacket with neon pink glasses and short hair died fiery red about a month ago because I could see her dark roots. She seemed happy because she kept whistling, humming and sometimes singing loud enough for the two people in front of me to hear. At first I didn’t think about what she was whistling I thought maybe it is a christmas song or a song on the radio until she got to the chorus and starting singing “America! America! … God shed His grace on thee, … And crown thy good with brotherhood…”. The true Walmart experience was complete, a 20 min line in front of a lady with neon ping glasses singing America the Beautiful . What’s your craziest Walmart story? Click on comment below and tell us your story.

I also happened to see Santa Clause picking up some cold medicine. My iPhone was going kinda slow so this is the best image I could get. 

Santa At Walmart

We just got back from camp. As always it was a GREAT week. This year I ended up doing the video editing for our video skits. Bellow is my favorite video but you can check them all out at http://www.youtube.com/user/worshipart

This past weekend we headed to Chicago to celebrate our nephew’s second birthday. Unbelievable that he is 2, isn’t it? The party was Elmo/Sesame Street themed. Our family was joined by some cute playgroup friends. Jack had a blast and got a lot of cool presents including a Purdue trike and wooden work bench complete with tools. Here are some shots from the day. Happy Birthday Jack!!!

I have had a couple requests to elaborate on the current status of the mice and my traps. I am happy to report that the score is now …

Mice:1 Rachel: 1

The mice got their point by making an old fashioned trap that Jason set downstairs disappear. Seriously, we can’t find it any where. Way to go mousy.

I get my point because the electric chair worked and the body count is 1. I am hoping that this needless death will send a strong message to our mouse community. If you stay out of Rachel’s stuff you stay away from possibly harmful electricity. But if we are basing this on my luck they are probably forming a posse to tie up Moses when we are gone. There is no way they could ever get him through the doorway though – which puts me at ease. Anyway…

I’ll keep you posted on how it pans out.

Cardboard Matt Kenseth showed his full support Mon. evening at Abry’s for Nate and Whitney as they raised awareness and funds for their upcoming move to do missions in New Zealand. They are going to be apart of a team to plant a new church. To learn more about their passion to give glory to God through serving Him check out their awesome website: http://www.n8andwhitney.com

Jason and Nate hanging out with Matt

Yesterday, we thought it would be fun to call our friends Megan and Justin and see if they wanted to meet us with their dog Luca for a doggie play date with Moses. We took a trip to the park in search of an empty fenced in baseball diamond where they could run together. It turns out that Danville locks all of the ball diamonds and tennis courts on Sunday. After about 15 mins of driving and searching we hit the jackpot and found a diamond where the lock wasn’t fastened ! A sweet lesson in perseverance. They had a great time running. Luca was more interested in wrestling than running but Moses enjoyed running away from Luca and chasing the ball.

Luca is a golden-doodel (sorry if I spelled it wrong)

Moses taking a breather

Moses chasing Luca.

Luca and Moses got along really well!