Darrington Campout

This past weekend we spend the weekend in Darrington doing worship for the Darrington Youth Group. It was awesome seeing the kids enter into worship despite the heat and humidity all around. The camp out is unique because the services are held in a barn on the youth pastors property and the kids all sleep in tents around the house. Jesus touched the lives of everyone who came!

Concert at 24/7 in Bellevue

My honey's band had a concert at a church in Bellevue a few weeks ago. We had a great time and the guys played an awesome show. We were even able to sell the new CD's which are awesome! Its always hard to get a clear picture of my honey as he moves all over the stage more than any other lead singer I have ever seen.

Making T-Shirts

<- The Silk Screen Machine


Last Tuesday, night a team of 4 of us band groupies pulled together to get the t-shirts done before the concert on Saturday night. We started around 8pm and finished by 1:30 am.

We had 4 jobs, I put the t-shirts on the board to be stamped, my honey stamped them, T pulled them off and folded them after they were stamped and J flash dried them.



My Honey scraping the paint over the silk screen ->


When you are doing the same type of tasks over and over again very late at night you find ways to entertain yourself and others. I entertained myself and the others very well as I did crazy dances and sang along to "The Traveling Willburys," "The Napoleon Dynamite Soundtrack," "Twisted Sister," and "Billy Idol." Great tunes to get goofy to. T joined in on my singing and dancing fun.


<- T taking the shirt off the board


I must say that J did a great job setting up the screening process as he made his own silk screens, built rooms in the basement to work in, and taught us all how to do our tasks. He made beautiful silk screens for us to use.

Every once in a while I would accidentally not have the shirt quite right on the board and the print would come out a little lower than planned. J got pretty irritated at my honey and I for this... What is funny about it is he burned or smudged at least 5 shirts finishing them up.

In the end, the shirts came out beautiful and were worth the effort when we made it to the concert on Saturday.

My Honey on Stage at the Temple Theatre in Tacoma

More info and pictures to come on this event! One of the Bands best preformances ever!

Economic Woes

2008 has brought a lot of fear and uncertainty to this country, my family and me. I have to consciously make a decision to not be worried about it all, every day. Over this last past week the economy has brought changes for me in a few ways.

• The Band: My honey's band is now unsigned. The label dissolved because under the new Presidential administration it would not get as many tax breaks as before. I personally think this is a lame reason to stop something that you have your heart in. My heart was not in the label, nor was the bands, but the people affiliated with the label had no idea this was coming. The people who started the label surely must have done so out of ideas birthed in their hearts. I guess money speaks loud and clear. I think it is really too bad for the people employed and affiliated. Now we need to get cracking on different promotions for the band.
• My Job: My work let go of 5 people last week. As far as I know, this was not entirely due to their numbers but direction from above to cut some people to save money. Who really knows if I will be kept because of the ratio of admin to staffing managers. God will take care of me. This week things seem to be picking up for us here though... very good.
• The Web Business: (www.slyd.us) Overall, 2008 was not a bad year when you realize that most start up businesses do not make any money in their first year (especially in a year of recession). My honey's business made money in 2008, and they have already invoiced 1/3 of their profits from last year in 2009. Some people out there have money to invest in things. Plus websites are a great way to get a companies name and product out there.

I really feel like God is doing something. In everything going on I know that he has his hands in it and he will take care of me and others. I have to remember that if he clothes the birds and flowers of the field then he surely will take care of us, and he has. Even if people are getting laid off around me, labels are dissolving, and things might look uncertain as far as new business goes, I know thinks are ultimately going to be okay. God is good!

The Band and it's Breakthrough

My husband has been in a band for... gosh, at least the last 6 years and this year seems to be the year of breakthrough. They were picked up by a small record label out of the Pacific Northwest that is a part of a larger label in the south. Currently, we are not sure what we think of the label as they have not been doing much other than fronting the cash we needed to record the 3 song EP that is going to be released within the next month or so. Fortunately, we only have a 1 year contract with them (special deal drawn up by the label) and have the ability to decide if we want to continue at the end of the one year term.

I am really digging the songs that they have put on this EP and "Beautiful Waste" almost brings me to tears when I hear it. This is the first album that I have been able to say "I am really proud".... sounds like a horrible thing to say... I know.

The past albums they have had seem to have been more eclectic recordings, but this new album has 3 songs that really mesh together. This is what producers tend to say is that the songs need to fit together on an album. This makes sense that you wouldn't just have a bunch of different themed songs. Take Pink's new album for example, the whole thing is about her breakup with her husband.

With this coming year the band will be traveling a lot and I intend on posting information on what it is like to be a "band wife/groupie." This is a fun position to be in following the guys around and helping promote because it does affect me directly. Bands keep on going and make it big or just keep on going. We are hoping to make it big. We believe we are in this or a reason.

Lets get started!

Over a year ago, in June of 2007 to be exact my husband and I felt led to step down as the youth pastors of our church. We did not know what we would be doing, and in a sense stepped out blindly. It didn't take long for a new possibility to arise.
Within a couple of days of our resignation my husband started calling other youth pastors, and people he had worked with. He felt impressed to call one of our friends that his band had done business with, and ask about to how to create a professional website for the band. At that moment my husband's friend was driving to a meeting with an Internet hosting company. The company had been thinking about asking him to become their in house web designer, and said "it is strange that you are talking to me about this right now, I was not sure how i was going to handle all of this business if this works out.' We believed, this was no coincidence but a divine appointment.
In October 2007 my husband officially started at the web company (www.slyd.us) and here we are now... still in it, and believing, but struggling.