Seriously… everything else was great… if not perfect.  Liz & Mark led worship and did a PHENOMENAL job.  Matt gave a brilliant sermon that really made us all think.  The sound was pretty darn good.  Graphics – yeah… that was me – NOT SO HOT.

We upgraded to iWorks ’09 and my laptop wasn’t liking it.  After that, my Mac also decided she no longer wanted to be in a intimate relationship with LiveWorship and dumped him and all his files.  Not a single song was to be found.

Matt and I looked everywhere.  Gone… like a potential girl/boyfriend once you tell her/him you’re a serial killer.

What’s crazy is it was all there yesterday during run-thru.  I must have deleted part of the program or something…

During the whole set up time, I was typing up song lyrics like a mad woman on Keynote so people wouldn’t have to make up their own lyrics, though that would have been AWESOME!!!  I finished the worship response portion on Matt’s MAC during his sermon and had Matt Isborn run the sermon graphics on my Mac for me.

Totally genius… until Matt’s laptop ran out of juice.  So of course I plug it in and turn the power back on.  

“BWAHHHHHH”

That’s the sound a MAC makes when it’s powered on.  If people didn’t know there were technical difficulties before this… they sure knew now.

Overall, I think it was still a powerful Sunday.  I think I was the most distracted out of everyone, but it was for a good reason — so THEY wouldn’t be.

I’d still give today a score of:  8.5

Not to shabby!

Just for fun… here’s a picture of sound check this morning:

It really wasn’t THAT bad

This picture sums up the bulk of it.  Not in any specific order:  

Brian behind me, my family, Worship (it’s the second desktop item from the top pictured on my desktop), our new baby, Paxton, who is still in my belly and my MacBook Pro.

That’s all I have time for right now.  I must go pick up Chancey Pants from Preschool now, then head over for my weekly sushi lunch date with Holly.  These are also some of my favorite things

• I can’t believe Chance is 3 years old.  Where did the time go?
• Today, my calendar says I’m 29 weeks and 5 days pregnant (if you count November 15th being my due date)… but I’m REALLY 30 weeks and 6 days pregnant (since I have a scheduled C-Section on the 7th).
• My hair won’t hold color as well as it usually does.  My hair stylist says it may be because I’m pregnant.
• Speaking of pregnant – today was my glucose test appointment.  I get the results in a couple of days, but I weigh 146 lbs (that’s 26 lbs more than “normal” but 8 lbs less than the same time last time being preggo with Chance) and my belly measures bigger than last time too.  So, I weigh less, but the baby is bigger.  GREAT!
• We took Chance along to thank our Doctor, Tim Stewart, for taking him out of mommy’s tummy 3 years ago.  Cute.
• Matt and I ordered my new MacBook Pro today in our service planning meeting.  I am SOOO excited for my new laptop!!!  No longer will I be confined to our home office.
• My back pretty much hurts all the time, non-stop, but I only have 10 more weeks so I try not to complain.
• My awesome husband got pedicures together AND he took me shopping for new preggo clothes (though I made sure I could still wear them after I had the baby too) this past weekend.  He actually WENT shopping with me, which hasn’t happened in FOREVER.  I feel like a new woman… sort of.
• I just scheduled our newborn photo shoot with Kimberly for November.  She is SOOO good.  I am so excited, I’m pretty unsure of what to do with myself.
• I really miss my friends and team members at Sunset Pres.
• Pre-school starts in 8 days for Chance… but tomorrow is our first meeting with his teacher.
• Brian and I are finally narrowing down our list of baby names, though we can’t seem to agree strongly on any of them.
• I really can’t believe how long the waiting line is to adopt overseas right now.  I’m a bit upset because children need to be home and times a wastin’.
• We still haven’t started a baby journal for baby #2.  We started one for Chance the first month we found out we were pregnant.
• I know most people don’t like their in-laws, but I think mine are ridiculously AWESOME! I love that I can sit down with either of them and talk, from the heart, for hours, totally being my authentic self and know they love me unconditionally as their own.  I want to be THAT kind of in-law to my daughter-in-laws one day.  Is that weird?
• Here’s a list of things I can’t wait to do once I have this baby:

1. Go hiking
2. Play the guitar without the “slope”
3. Go snowboarding
4. Work out & run
5. Go camping
6. Wakeboard
7. Breathe a deep breath again

• Here’s a picture of me at 29 weeks and 5 days (and yes, that’s one of the cute new shirts I got this weekend – it’s organic cotton, if you care):

And there you go.

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