The daily grind...

Sometimes, I really enjoy my job. I mean, there's nothing quite like that moment of pure adrenaline on a hot, bright stage, the crowd is a blur...
  But it is a job, a lot of people of what we do as a hobby, or that is pure love-we'd do it even if we never got paid... well, it is a job and a pretty cool one, might I add! And sometimes, even when the shows are tough, late, non-attended, etc... the perks are pretty great. :)

Like this weekend, we drove down to St. Joseph and played a youth group show after the local h.s. football game. The doors didn't even open till 10:30pm... it was a late night drive to Kansas City that night and we were all pretty exhausted the next morning when we woke up at our friends, the Wells' house...

But we got some good coffee and hangs with the beautiful twinsies, Selah (left) and Noah. He's gonna be a good dad one day. :)

  Saturday we played an outdoor show in Bartlesville, OK. Random fact: children 18:3 has played more shows in OK than any other state (besides our home-state, the great Minnesota). Bartlesville is pretty close to Tulsa, where our manager is from. So Danny (our awesome manager) & Tim (his business partner from Australia with a sweet accent :) came and filmed us for our upcoming music video for "We'll Never Say Goodbye". Hopefully that'll be up soon!
  The show that night was one of those tough ones... there were around 150+ kids, all stoked and havin' a great time at the show during the three acts before us. Then there was a speaker and we took the stage and all the sudden there were 10 kids. 10 kids! Did we hit curfew or something? But the thing is, you never know the impact you're making on eternity. If you don't give it your 100% one day, what reward have you lost...? We may never know till heaven, what we could've done on earth. My inspiring thought for the day- ha ha! But even though it wasn't a very fun show- the people there are incredible and made us feel like stars.

  On Sunday we hung out with our manager and went rollar skating (supposedly to get more music video footage-another awesome perk of being on the road is doing random fun activities). My first time ever and I'm happy to say that I not only stayed on my feet the entire time- I think I am addicted!

 Pure joy...

Me, D and Jordan (Danny's daughter)

After rollar skating till we dropped.. we head to a venue to do live shots. We were tired silly by then...

Ha ha!

After live shots and the Expendables with our manager we finally hit the road back to Kansas City. We crashed around 3am, I think. Monday morning before we headed home we stopped by the International House of Prayer to get coffee with Bess... 

This kid is my favorite thing on earth.

Anyway, today it's back to home life. Hit the gym and jammed the Wedding's new album (out today!!) "No Direction". Don't know if I would've made it through that last mile without it, seriously- go pick it up!!

Had a great day at the office. The other office, that's not a 15 passenger van. :)

And next week I get to do it all over again... I really do have a great job.

Keep on keeping on!!

LM