...A strange sight to see in your backyard says I.

I don't know what else to say about this.

Christmas Play

As you may know from my previous post, last week from Thursday through Sunday Annelise and I were part of the Christmas play at Great Bridge Baptist Church.

It was quite a production. The first half of the play was mostly Christmas and winter type music, "Frosty the Snowman", "Jingle Bells," etc. We came out early in the second half of the play. Mary and I (Joseph) marched down the isle to the tune of "Silent Night." Then the lights would dim and we would run off stage and get Annelise (baby Jesus) from Jen, who brought her every night and did a good job of trying to make sure she was well fed and sleepy. Then we would stand center stage with her as the shepherds, children, and wise men came to visit, each with an accompanying choir song. We were out there about half an hour total.

Annelise was perfect. She didn't cry a single time. She would move around every once in a while, hopefully making the audience realize we were using a real baby. The music was very loud on the stage, but I think that actually caused her to sleep. It was very pleasant music.

It really did consume almost every night of last week. I had to be there around 6:30 and didn't leave until nearly 9:00. To be honest, I had my concerns about losing all that time in the beginning. But I found myself really enjoying it. Sunday night during the last performance I found myself sad that it was going to be all over.

Many times I find that Christmas sneaks up on me and is gone before I realize what happened, being in this play helped me to take a step back and look at what is important about Christmas. In the end, it was definitely worth it.

General Update

Several people have reminded me that I haven't updated my blog in a while. <sarcasm>Thanks.</sarcasm>

I guess I haven't had many blog worthy things going on, just lots and lots of the usual. It seems like I'm the busiest now that I've ever been.

Not that I'm complaining, I have come to the conclusion that it is human nature when you run out of things to do, the tendency is to create problems by blowing small stuff out of proportion.

Annelise is doing well, she got a cold over the Thanksgiving weekend, but she seems to be over that now for the most part. She is getting cuter every day. I can't look at her without smiling. She is spending more time observing the world around her now, it's such a unique thing to watch, I've never experienced anything like it.

I've been playing guitar pretty regularly over the last few weeks. My old band mates and I have been getting together once a week to play, nothing serious, we were just all itching to play again. I've also recently become more interested in learning more of the technical aspects of music. Most of what I know is from song memorization from tablature and knowledge of 2 or 3 positions for chords.

Annelise and I are going to be in our church's Christmas play. I'm going to play Joseph and she is going to be baby Jesus. It's kind of an honor to be asked to do that. It's a major production, usually about 700 to 800 people attend each night for 3 nights. Our part is relatively small though, we come out on stage for a few minutes and basically act as a living manger scene.

Thanksgiving has come and gone, about three weeks of fall left, and Christmas is right around the corner. This is an exiting time of the year, remember to slow down every now an then to enjoy it, and remind me to do the same.