Busy Sunday

 Last Sunday we had a crazy busy day!  We began the day by doing a survey and giving blood at an East Austin church for a long-term cancer prevention study (no photo op) then to our church for Sunday school, and working the nursery.  Then we went to UT for our international match.  We had some time to fill so we walked to the fountain, it was a beautiful day.

 This is Janine, she is 21 and from Germany and studying for one year at UT.  Hopefully there will be many fun outings with her this year.  From there we dropped the girls off at the Birches (we have great friends with big cars, they played and then took the girls to Choir & Awana, Heather picked them up and took them to her house and put them to bed in her guest room...)  Caleb and I drove to Houston to Second Baptist church for our last Bebo Norman concert.

 He was with Andrew Peterson (who we had seen before in CS) and Sara Groves and three amazing musical backups.  They all took turns and played each others' songs.  And of course there was a Compassion International video and plea and it made us more enthused about having Juan from Peru and Aswini from India (and you can sponsor your own too!)

I won't be melodramatic and say this is the day the music died because we do have all of his CDs, but it is sad knowing we won't see him in concert or get another album.  Caleb sang one of his songs at our wedding.  When I was expecting Lydia, he secretly bought the latest CD and picked three songs to play for me for our long drive to the hospital while I was in labor.  We worked the Compassion table in a VFW hall in Bryan and got to meet Bebo.  We saw him in Austin and there got Juan (it was after our first Compassion child moved out the area and we didn't have one for a year or so).
It was a great concert (yeah I pretty much cried through the whole thing) and worth the drive.  When it was over we headed back to Austin and picked up the sleeping girls around 1am and brought them back to their own beds.
Thanks to Caleb for introducing me to Bebo and other great music and to our friends for caring for our girls!