Two big “news stories” from our house this week — 1st: the Third Day concert in Rapid City was super duper cool!! and 2nd: Dirk and Thor both bagged their antelope this past weekend!! YEAH!!
So as you can see from the first set of pictures — yep, that is me with Mr. Mac - lead singer from Third Day. So — I guess it comes as a surprise to everyone — mostly because I didn’t say anything to anyone — because I wasn’t sure until he last day how it was all going to pan out. So here is the short verision… Third Day recruits local “choir” or back-up singers from every town they go to do a concert in (I didn’t realize this). About a month prior to the concert date, a member of the road crew contacts churches in that community to see if they are willing to supply 12-16 choir members. Our church was one of two to respond. (how crazy is that? if I attended a different church, I might be a little miffed at the secretary or pastor who turned down the opportunity??). So anyway — I put my name on the list right away, but let our Worship Pastor know that I wanted those who were more regular attenders on the worship team to have first dibs to a spot on the choir — since I don’t participate musically at Dove very often. So — by the end of the week the Worship Pastor said we only had 10 people confirmed to go — and I could jump in if I wanted! That was Wed and the concert was Thursday night! So I started furiously listening to the songs to learn the parts. I had no expectations, except that we were supposed to know the chorus and bridge of every song. I know quite a bit of 3D music, but about half the songs we did were totally new — from their newest album.
So the night of the concert, Holli and I drove in together — Anika got a “comp” seat as my “guest” — as well as Abby and Anna as Holli’s guests. We met in the backstage dressing rooms with Harvest Parker, the only female member of the crew/band — and she gave us the run-down of the evening. We would rehearse, do a sound check on stage, get placed in our spots on the “risers” (which actually turned out to be a set of stairs on each side of the drum set), finish rehearsals, eat supper with the band, meet back in the dressing rooms to pray and prep for stage, sing with the band (3 different “sets” with short breaks between) — and end with the finale of the evening “Soul on Fire.”
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| What!?! It's Mac!! |
The pictures I have from the audience are from friends from church — I’m the on the right side of the stage — on the top of the stairs. So what can I say — definitely the super-coolest thing I’ve ever gotten to be a part of in my L.I.F.E!!! for sure. no doubts. The band is super gracious — and the experience of being “backstage” as a part of the group is amazing. They are just a bunch of normal, funny people (and quite humble considering the amazing talent) — they kept asking us if we were having a good time — and what a great job we were doing?!? LOL
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| Me... backstage... |
Afterward it was fun to meet up with our kids and be semi-celebreties for about 5 minutes. :) I was able to introduce Anika to a couple of the musicians who were out front at the product tables… you can see Anika got a pic with Harvest. She is an up-and-coming solo artist herself… loved the song she shared about half-way through the evening. At the end of the evening, the band gave us our own autographed copies of the newest CD… pretty awesome!
Now I’m back to just being normal, boring embarrassing mom. Yep… it’s over that quick. :)
The last two pics are from Thor & Dirk’s hunting adventures south of Hot Springs. Dirk had a buck tag - and took out his on Saturday — 470 yard shot. Thor had an ‘antler-less’ tag, and got this little guy on Monday — just under 100 yard shot. So Dirk has more bragging rights — but Thor said the dragging of the goat back to the truck took FOR EVER. He was more than happy to take his out close to the truck! :)
So that is our adventure for the week.
