Opening for Guy Penrod!

Monday night my sisters and I had the privilege of opening in concert for Guy Penrod (who used to be apart of the Gaithers) at the Orpheum in Sioux Falls, SD. The evening was opened up with a group called the Masters Voice Quartet out of Sioux Falls, then our group did a couple numbers and the evening was finished out by Guy. We had a great afternoon getting to know Guy, the members in his band/family/crew, the men from Masters Voice Quartet, as well as the many individuals that put the event on. The evening went great and the songs sounded amazing in the orpheum.

Getting ready back stage in the green room











Warming up backstage


Prayin' it up backstage with Kansas' husband Danny


Merch table set up and all ready to go


Our Amazing Parents Jim & Jan


Hanging out with Guy backstage before performing


Masters Voice Quartet, Guy Penrod & Us


Performance Time...


So, there was only one technical difficulty the whole night...
The CD happened to skip on Kasondra's verse during our very last song. Guy decided to come on stage and "chit chat" with us and the audience while they worked on fixing things. It was no big deal...we all made light of it and no one really seemed to care :)


Enjoying Guy Penrod's Performance

Monday was also our parents 31st Wedding Anniversary! We want to wish them a very Happy Anniversary and thank them for once again giving up their time to come and support us along with our little sister.

Benefit Concert in LeMars

Sunday afternoon we had our benefit concert in LeMars, IA to continue raising funds for our upcoming mission trip to Haiti. The weather was perfect, it was a gorgeous sunny day outside and we had a great turn out. We shared several of our new acapella songs as well as a brand new song that features our little sister Jamaica (who has been begging to be apart of True Emotion ever since she could talk lol)! She did an amazing job we were all so proud of her. We feel so blessed by those who came out to support us at the funds that were received that day~God is Good!

Setting up...




Jamaica helping watch the little ones

Danny our Sound Man

Chilling before the concert




Jamaica sound checking for her first appearnce
with True Emotion singing her very own verse on a song!

Super Grandma...she's always so good about watching the grandkids so we can focus on our ministry



To God Be The Glory




 

A Special Happy Birthday to Dad Z too who's birthday was on Sunday!

Saturday Girls Night Out

Saturday was girls night out!  Charlie worked the 6 p.m.-3 a.m. shift so I had to find things to keep me busy.  Kelsie sent me a text early that afternoon and asked if I wanted to go out to a movie with her and Kasondra that night.  I couldn't pass that up.  I hate being at home by myself when Charlie is gone working.  I grew up in a house where there was always someone around and something going on, it's quite a bit different now.  So anyways, Saturday night Kelsie and Kasondra and I had sisters night out and went to the movie "Abduction."  It was a great movie.  Probably not the greatest when you're going to be home all night by yourself though.  Luckily, just as I was headed home from the movies I got a call from my girlfriend Jen.  She was bored and just wanted to get out of the house and do something.  So Jen and my other good friend Bethany came over for the night and we just enjoyed chilling at our place and catching up with each other!

Crazy Busy Weekend & Week

It's already Wednesday...man this past weekend and first part of this week has been so crazy busy.  Let's see if I can remember everything that happened.  Ok...so we'll rewind to Friday.  Friday morning I felt like crap as did Charlie as we are taking some pills in preparation for our Haiti trip in January and being that it was my day off, I figured I would just stay in bed a bit longer and try to sleep the sick feeling off a bit.  So...I slept in, woke up at about 9:30, ran through the shower and ate breakfast, tore the bed apart to start cleaning the bedding, threw the dirty clothes in piles on the floor to sort the laundry and pretty much tore my house apart so I could start cleaning really good as we were going to have a couple walk through our house on Saturday morning.  Wouldn't you know it, just as I get everything torn apart, my phone rings.  It's our realtor.  There was some miscommunication and the realtor that was going to take the couple through our house was planning on the walk through this morning.  WHAT...Ah!!! Are you kidding me?  The realtor asked if it was ok for the couple to still come and walk through this morning...as in 15 minutes.  Ya what am I supposed to say-can't turn a showing down, but really my house is literally a disaster at this point.  Ok I understand I will make it work (I said...as my mind is spinning as to how I am going to get my house picked up in 15 minutes, somewhat dusted, and myself looking decent (as my hair was still wet-not even brushed out and I had no make up on).  I'm sure I was a quite a site that morning...hopefully no one ran into me ;)  So anyways I quickly rushed out the door and told myself, hey who knows this just might be the couple that is going to put an offer on our house and it will all be worth it.  Wrong...the realtor called me the next day only to advise that the couple had placed an offer on another home in town and were signing papers that morning.  Grrr!!!  Oh well what can you do.  The right couple or family will come through sometime (at least I hope so).

Charlie worked until 5 on Friday, and as soon as he got home we decided we wanted to get out of town, relax, have some time to enjoy each other's company and just enjoy the night he had off for once.  First we headed to Craig where Charlie had some trail cams hung up on a new plot of land his parents recently purchased.  The one camera got a couple shots of a nice looking deer and the other didn't get too much of anything.  We then headed to Fairview (Pouders Pond) where we took another hike.  It was gorgeous and so peaceful walking through the hiking trails.  We put a couple more trail cams up here and then headed up to Sioux Falls for the night.  I think this is probably the best way to start a date because the hubby was all happy since he got to do something he enjoyed so the rest of the night he was cool with whatever I felt like doing.

 Can you see the two small dear?

Tracks we found on our hike

Hanging one of the trail cams

Once we got into Sioux Falls we headed to the Olive Garden for supper.  It's been awhile since we have eaten there but it was so good.  And you can never pass up the never ending pasta bowls!  Just as we were leaving Olive Garden we got a call from Kansas.  She was wondering if the two of us would like to go out for dessert with her and Danny (the were also out on a date that night as Kelsie and Jamaica offered to come up and babysit the boys).  We don't get to spend as must time with them as we'd always like so we couldn't pass up their offer.  We headed over to "Cherry Berry" and had fun putting together our own ice cream creations.  After dessert we headed back to Kansas & Danny's place and enjoyed playing games the rest of the night!