This morning twenty members of the Arts department at Central performed a drama titled “Church of the Living Dead”. Here are a few pictures from practice and from this morning’s presentation. Thank you to; Doug McConnell, Logan McConnell, Phil Brooks, Ben Backer, CJ Backer, Paul Backer, Serenity Zander, Katie Zander, Zach Zander, Mark Zander, Laura Strawmyer, Jake Lawler, Jessica Watson, Laura Wolf, Craig Sharpe, Jada Purdie, Shaquenta Purdie, all of our live church extras and our sound and light crew. Thank you all for helping deliver this message. I’m already planning the next one!!!
(L) Katie tells Ben just what she thinks of him. (R) A father/son moment for Paul.
(L) Jessica Watson painted up to play “Corpse # 2″. (R) Tony thinking, “Why so serious?!?!?!”
(L) Laura, Katie and Jake applying ghosty makeup. (R) Brotha Doug layin’ down the Word!!! Amen!!!
(L) Ben tells Phil that sometimes he cuts himself shaving. (R) Jesus (Craig) offers Rob (Ben) some wisdom and encouragement.
I’ve decided to do something that I’ve never done before. I am going to show my progress after every two or three sessions so that you can see the picture grow the way I do. For me, that’s the most fun part in creating. It is not uncommon for me to draw into the early hours of the morning and then wake up, rush down stairs and see how my progress looks to me the next morning. Yes, I realize that I’m a “kook.” Anyway this is my progress after about an hour and a half or so. I started with an action shot of McCartney. There will be action shots of the four that will frame their portraits (a total of 8 drawings to complete the full picture). I start on the far left so that I don’t smear the lead as I work as a right hander. Anyway, currently I call this “Half-finished Action Paul.” Look for another update in a couple of days.
Sunday morning, May 24, the Creative Arts Department at Central Christian will be putting on a drama called “Church of the Living Dead.” It’s a script I originally wrote back at Roanoke Bible College back in 1992. Some parts have already been given out and a few set people have volunteered. This week I will finish the casting for the production and we will begin rehearsals the week after. I appreciate everyone who has been so eager to help out and look forward to working with you all.
We left Tuesday morning and drove from Westfield to southern Georgia. When driving 17 hours with three little girls there are many essentials you will need; A hotel room about half way, coloring books, crayons, pop tarts, juice cups, stickers, stuffed animals, blankets, videos (Dora, Looney Toons, Max and Ruby, Braveheart, etc.) tons of patience, ear plugs, ether and, when possible, a personal counselor. All things considered, the girls did really well. After a night in a hotel, we crossed the Florida line and were quickly reminded of what warm weather feels like.
Thursday morning we found our way to Aquatica, Disney’s new water park. It was awesome. We were in the kiddie areas all day and I still had a blast. The girls put on their life jackets and it was on!!! For the next four hours, they completely wore themselves (and Laura and I) out. Adrienne was too little to fear the slides and Brooke and Katie teamed up like the Wonder Twins on the water slides. The girls loved watching the Dolphins too. 
We stayed one more night in the hotel. We stayed at the Crown Royal in Orlando. Laura got us a crazy good deal that included all of our park tickets, transportation … it pays to have a wife who grew up in Florida … she knows stuff. The next day we went back to Aquatica one more time and then got dressed to head home. Before leaving Florida, Brooke and Katie informed us that we had one last stop to make …
Today Brooklyn asked me the funniest question ever. The question was funny, but the fact that it came out of nowhere made it even funnier. I’m sure I won’t win parent of the year after I cackled when she asked me. “Daddy, is Heiney how you say ‘Butt crack’ in Chinese?” I thought I had heard her wrong. “What?” I said after nearly choking. “Is Heiney how you say ‘Butt crack’ in Chinese?” I then explained to her that ‘butt crack’ in chinese actually looks like this - 对接裂纹. Heiney, of course, is Viking for butt crack. Kids.
Today Laura took Brooke and Katie out for a girls day of shopping so I thought it would be fun to go do some stuff with Adrienne. We ran errands and took care of a few business items but then found ourselves at the toy store. Adrienne loves playing with trains so we were there for a while. That tired her out so she napped in the car. This gave me the perfect chance to drive to Noblesville to take her to lunch. Why Noblesville? Skyline Chili. She ordered a cheese coney and we really had a nice time. That girl loves cheese!!!
