Here are some photos of our kids on Easter Sunday- Connor, 6; Chloe, 3; and Caleb, 2.

Last Friday night, Annette's grandfather, Melvin Morrow, passed away in Fort Worth, Texas. He was 92 years old. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Estelle.

I made this video in tribute to my children's Pappaw. He was a great man, who loved the Lord. The clips used in this video were taken from Melvin's own home movies shot in the 1950's and 60's.

The song, "Last Mile to Jordan," was written by our dear friend Rebecca Peck, with vocals by former Gaither Vocal Band singer Terry Franklin.

This is a video of a trip we made to Yuma, and our visit to the Yuma Territorial Prison, November, 2008.

Here are some photos of our California vacation.
Connor and I went to his very first Dodger game.




Connor and Dodger legend Fernando Valenzuela.

We stayed with ANnette's cousin Trana, her husband Chris, and their baby Joss. We had a wonderful time in their home in Sherman Oaks. Chloe was in love with Trana, Connor was in love with Joss, and Caleb didn't break anything.

Trana got us passes to Universal Studios Hollywood, where she works as a publicist. We had a great time!




We also went to the Santa Monica pier, the train in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, and I took Connor and Chloe to Bel Air Presbyterian Church Sunday. It was a terrific time in Southern California!

This past Monday and Tuesday the Nevada Baptist Convention held their annual Evangelism Conference at our church, and I was the Music Director for the meetings. I always enjoy this conference, especially when we are asked to host, which is about every other year.
This year we had amazing speakers- Dr. Dwayne Mercer, pastor of First Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida; Dr. John Franklin; and Henry & Richard Blackaby. Henry Blackaby is sort of a Southern Baptist icon, thanks to his incredible book, "Experiencing God," which has had hundreds of thousands of copies printed and read all over the world. But after hearing him speak, I discovered he was much more than an annointed author. He is an effective communicator, in a very soft spoken way. His son was equally persuasive, and preached a sermon that greatly moved me. The other men were amazingly effective and used of God.
I showed the video of Connor as Billy Sunday in the afternoon session, which went over extremely well. Connor followed that with his solo, "Everybody Ought To Know." Afterwards, I introduced him to Henry Blackaby, and took this photo.
It's been a long time since I last posted- I have lots more coming soon, but bear with me. it's the last of January, and- I'm not kidding- I'm sending out Christmas Cards this weekend.

Today was one of the most historic weather days in Vegas history. Snow, snow, snow!
I was peparing for our Living Nativity at the church when it started to come down- and then, it just didn't stop. I was real non-chalant about the drive home when I started out of the parking lot, but was very grateful to be home, safe and sound, by the time it was over. People were stranded and stalling, and sliding all over. We had a tree in the front lose several BIG branches when they snapped under the weight of the snow. I went around to all the trees in the front and the back and tried to relieve the weight by knocking off the snow, and had some luck. I hope they make it throught the night. Connor and I went out in the middle of the street for snowball wars and to build a snowman. It's been a lot of fun!

Connor was assigned evangelist BIlly Sunday for Famous America Day at his school, so we decided that in addition to giving his speech, he would recite a portion of one of Billy Sunday's sermon. He was terrific!

Dad took Connor out for a fun day after he did such a great job at school. First, it was lunch at Sweet Tomatoes. Second, we went to Ceasar's Palace to walk around and for Connor to play on the giant floor piano like the one in the movie "Big." We went by Field of Dreams, where Pete Rose usually is, and there was Pete- and Kenny Stabler, the Snake, former Crimson Tide and Raiders quarterback- a big-time favorite of dad's. Connor had on his Alabama hat, andd when we walked in, Kenny stuck out his hand and said, "Hey young man- Roll Tide?" Connor responded, "ROLL TIDE." He then told Kenny that he was born in Mobile, which made Kenny laugh and say that he was from Mobile too.





I told Connor to look at the ring on Kenny's hand, which prompted Kenny to do something I never thought he would do- he handed Connor his ring. Dad was a little bit excited at that point.






Pete Rose was sitting there atching all this, and so when Connor was passing him, he said, "Here, I want to show you this." It was a novelty World Series Ring that was huge. He told Connor is was from when he was fat.




Pete and Kenny Stabler couldn't have been any nicer to a couple guys not buying any of their product. I told Connor to shake the hand o the greatest baseball player of all time (he of the hated Cincinnati Reds, but I didn't say that out loud).



We finished up our day with a trip to the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame. Connor and I go there occasionally, and it is really great- over 200 pinball games from the 50's to today, and you can play 'em, for what they cost at the time.

Here are several photos from the past few days... Chloe had a birthday October 28. My baby girl is now 3! We had a party with her best friend Chuck E. Cheese. Hooray!




Connor and Chloe went trick-or-treating and had a great time. Connor was Bibleman, and Chloe was a fairy pixie princess... something or other. She sure was cute!






Finally, here's a photo of Connor with our congressman from Henderson, Jon Porter, taken at a John McCain rally at the Henderson Pavilion the night before the election. It was an exciting rally- 11,000 strong cheering on our candidate. We really like our congressman, and support him, but sadly, he lost his bid for re-election Tuesday, along with so many other Republicans in Nevada.