Woot Woot

Let me see if I can set the scene for you... Over 7,000 girls in their teens and tweens. Friday night and Saturday all day. Screaming at the top of their lungs. Loud music. No, I mean LOUD!!! Wow!

These are some of the artists and one of the speakers we enjoyed this past weekend at the Revolve Tour in Portland. It was so much fun!

I have to admit that some of you might not have recognized me this weekend. I figure, hey, I'm here, I might as well enjoy myself. And I did. I was in there screaming as much as the girls at some points. Funny thing: my dad had arranged for me to sing on Sunday morning at his church and I honestly thought about calling him on Friday night after we got out of the opening part of the event and telling him that I didn't think I'd have much of a voice when I got there and that I might not be able to sing. But Saturday I started out in a kind of funk, so there wasn't as much screaming that day. I found my way out of the funk eventually, though, and had a great time still. And no, I didn't lose my voice. I was able to sing on Sunday morning.

Speaking of singing, I was talking with the girls on the way home - in between our dance parties in the car when we were jammin' to our new CDs we had bought at Revolve - and I brought up what we were going to do next week in church. You see, last year when we came home, we gave a sort of report to the church about what we saw at Revolve. I think it was important for both the church and the girls to do this, because it let the church see that there are things going on out there and that the girls are maturing, and it allowed the girls to let the church know some of the things that are important to them. Anyhoo.... so I started asking them about what they liked the most and what they learned and all that, and then I asked them if they'd like to sing in church with me when we do our sharing time. They didn't even hesitate - they said yes! They've got pretty good voices, so we've heard them do a couple of specials in church recently. We're going to sing "In Better Hands" by Natalie Grant - an artist we saw both this year and last at Revolve.

I appreciate all of your prayers. Everything went really well - the roads were super clear except for some fog on the way back, the girls were receptive to what was being done and said, I was patient most of the time :-) The only one that I won't really see is how their dad reacts to them and all they have to say about this weekend.

I apologize if this blog is a little disjointed. I'm pretty tired still. Ugh. But I did want to give my faithful readers an update on how the weekend had gone.

I'm going to bed. Zzzzzz...