What a great weekend!

So this past weekend was awesome! It's the first time in a while that I just felt like I had no worries or responsibilities. My parents came up to visit from Jacksonville, FL to celebrate my mom's birthday and check out what a Easter service looks like at Crosspointe! Which by the way was the most AWESOME service since I've been here!

It seems like whenever my parents visit I always gain like 5 lbs because we eat at extremely fattening places! My favorite place was some Brazilian Grill where they bring out like 12 different kinds of meat that range from Filet Mignon, to Lamb, to Prime Rib, to any kind of meaty goodness that you could think of! It's by far one of my top 3 places to eat ever! (Why is it I always post about food somehow?)

The only bummer part of this weekend was that Tracy was down in Jax visiting her family and I didn't get to spend this great weekend with her too. It felt like I traded her for my parents, but it was great to have that personal time with mom and dad. So thanks for an awesome weekend and I hope you had a great birthday mom!

Rock Band Update

"Mullinicious" is now up to 210,000 fans with the opportunity to play for a jet liner! Eddie switched from drums to electric guitar. Our best song is "All the Small Things" by Blink 182 (which by the way is the ONLY song Eddie can do on expert). Tracy is still rockin the bass now on medium and Eddie sports a dual neck electric guitar! Watch out world we're the next big thing since Michael Jackson.....don't ask cause I don't know. Rock on!

Catalyst Recap

Last night we had our first "Catalyst" in over two months. For those of you who don't know what Catalyst is, it is our student ministry's once a month large group setting where we program a creative worship environment for high school students. It never ceases to amaze me that amount of work, time, and effort that goes into an event like this and just seeing students, parents, and adult leaders just pour themselves into it. Without going into full details I just wanna say thanks to the student worship team and tech team for staying there ALL day to practice and make the night as awesome as it was. John & Dellie you guys are some of the most incredible people I know thank you for all your help yesterday. Gerald thanks for giving up your afternoon on the fly. Stephen great opening video thanks for stepping up. Linda & all the parents who provided dinner for our students you ALL rock! Steve thanks for speaking truth into the lives of our students. And finally the mastermind behind this Catalyst and all the other Catalysts, Travis bro you're a freak of nature and I can't wait to see the mad crazy stuff you'll be doing in ministry!

Welcome to Moe's

If you haven't notice I'm a big fan of Mexican food and it's not because people think I look like one! In Florida you can find a Moe's Southwest Grill on almost every street corner, but up here you have to drive at least 20 or so minutes to find one. Well last week I met a student up at Moe's and I was so excited that I was able to order my "Triple Lindy" burrito the size of my face! One thing I like about Moe's is that it prides itself on is being unique in the type of music they play in their restaurants. They like to play a lot of older "popular" music. I guarantee that if you were to eat at a Moe's that you will at least hear a song by Sinatra, Jimmy Hendrix, and Elvis before you leave. So on my way out I did my usual, "hey I gotta go to the bathroom" thing and the song, "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was playing. We all know that when you're in a bathroom the music is louder and the acoustics (not that I know much about acoustics) make you sound like you're awesome. So while I'm doing my business I'm just singing aloud, "I'm leaving on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back again..." and as I go to wash my hands I see this sign...

for those of you with bad eyes it says, "remember people can hear you singing while you're in here." I couldn't help but get a laugh out of it. Right when I walked out the table right across from the restroom area was a family of four with young kids and they looked at me, smiled and gave me a thumbs up. I guess a little singing can bring joy to all our lives! Thank you Moe's for jagnormous burrito's and good music.

A Date Night that 'Rocked'

So as many of you know Tracy and I try to do a date night at least once if not twice a week. I know some of you are thinking, "You don't have any kids isn't every night a date night." Let me ask you a question, when you didn't have any kids was every night date night for you?..... Yeah, I didn't think so! So this past Friday night we decided to do something cool. We're far from professional chefs but we had some ground beef to use so the options were spaghetti, hamburger helper, or tacos (but there was no lettuce....so I said no). While trying to figure out what to eat we found some Chili Verde Enchilada Sauce (don't ask how we "found" it, I think it was in there for a long long time), but on the side of the can it had a recipe for some super sweet cheezy enchilada's. So we put our cooking skillz to the test and made a meal as if it came from La Rancherita itself! But what made the night really rock was that I showed Tracy how to play the video game "Rock Band" and to my surprise she LOVED it! She stuck to the Bass Guitar and I became the next Ringo on the drums, well not really considering the difficulty was set to easy. We had so much fun that we created a band and named it "Mullinicious" and we now have over 15,000 fans and won some old junky van! This date night literally ROCKED!