I'm Not Dead Yet!

Much excitement has happened since the last time I posted. I shall no longer leave you, Shelley, waiting in suspense for pictures of the famed MiniKISS and our first Miners' game...

Big John, one of the mascots. If you look closely, you'll see his pickax is on a baseball bat.

Here I am sporting our Miners cup.

MiniKISS consists of three guy little people and a short lady. They pretended to play their instruments to a track, but they did really sing. The reason we know that they were really singing is the music would fade out but the vocals would not. I think this just added to the awesomeness that was MiniKISS.

Sidestage of MiniKISS

Here I am being totally pumped for MiniKISS!

The Tuesday after seeing MiniKISS, we went to Paducah, KY to see the David Crowder Band. Highlight of that evening was when Crowder played a modified Guitar Hero controller that made guitar sounds.

The David Crowder Band

This past week Chase and I were serving at a youth church camp called Super Summer. Chase did some teaching and I was a coordinator for our group. Like most camps, there were rec games. A couple highlights from the games were...

Blind Kickball- teams played in partners where one person was blindfolded while the other led them around, but only the blindfolded person was allowed to touch the ball. This is our team not getting the other team out:


Ground Assault- pretty much the same as dodgeball. This is the lead singer from the worship band playing nice with the youth:


So there you have it, MiniKISS and more. We've had a lot going on, but we also have a lot coming up. We'll be travelling to see our families for 4th of July. We've also got an interview with the North American Mission Board and we planned a mini vacation to New Orleans. Hopefully it won't be two weeks before I update next!

Mini KISS and the Miners, Too

In case you haven't heard, Chase and I are going to see Mini KISS tonight with our friend Chelsea. What is Mini KISS and where are you seeing it? you might ask. Well, Mini KISS is a group of little people who impersonate the band KISS. We have a friend who works for the Southern Illinois Miners (local minor league baseball team), and we're going to see the Miners game tonight and the Mini KISS concert that follows. Yes, I know what you're thinking... you wish you had a friend who works for the miners, too. And don't worry, we're taking our camera!

Oh, the Excitement!

I've had an exciting past few days.

Thursday: Keli and I smelled the KISS perfume/cologne at Dillard's. A lady sprayed the women's perfume on a paper for us to smell, but no one was at the men's fragrance counter. So Keli found a paper, I reached over the counter and grabbed the tester, and Keli sprayed it on the paper. Then I put the fragrance back. Then Keli said, "Agh! I feel like I just put my hand in an ash tray!"

Friday: I played Full House the board game at BCM game night. Yes, it exists, but no, I did not win. Here is a picture of me playing the game:



And here is Keli with a "full house."



Saturday: I picked up a hitchhiker at Walmart. I'm sure people will tell me I shouldn't have done this and that she could have been a serial killer or something, but I was willing to take that risk. She looked young and looked pretty harmless and had a few bags of groceries. Turns out she's 19 and was in town for a few weeks a Rainbow Gathering that had happened. We had some cool conversation and I dropped her off at her friend's place.

Civic Duty

I feel that it's my civic duty to inform you all that KISS, yes, the band KISS, now has a fragrance line.


Of course, I wanted to find out more about this, so I turned to the interwebnet and found out that there's a promotional tour for their fragrance!

To launch the new KISS Fragrance Line, Gemini Cosmetics has organized a number of exciting promotions in the South East Region of the US at Dillards, Belks and Parisians stores. The promotions in this region include face painting, name that mask contests, tattoo events, free KISS air fresheners, that winning KISS contest, win a t-shirt and several others. Some events will have live radio call ins and DJs will live music.

I mean, not only are they doing face painting (I'm assuming like the band's stage make-up), but they're also giving out free KISS air fresheners! Who wouldn't want one of those?

Now, the band isn't actually touring with this, but I did find out that Gene Simmons is making some appearances. If it was coming closer to where I live, you'd better believe I'd be there along with my friend Keli. I think the crowd alone would be worth it!

On another KISS-related note, Keli and I have decided that once we have four children between us, we're dressing them up as KISS for Halloween.