The Time Has Come (and Past), and Come Again

I feel I need to apologize for the lack of posts to this blog in the past few months. The end of the school year was quite hectic, and right as summertime finally arrived, our faithful computer of five years finally bit the dust. We then went through a few more months of getting the computer repaired and back in our hands, so here at the end of the summer break (yes I have to go back on the 28th of this month, even though the kids don't return until the 25th of August; more on that in a moment) I felt the need to update our life.
So the end of the school year went well, and felt even better knowing that I would be employed at the same location when the next school year came around. In Karnes City we had a very warm spring-time, except for the one day in late April when the temperature dipped down into the 50s and the wind was blowing at around 25 mph. Needless to say this was the day we chose to have our concert, which wouldn't have been such as issue if we had not had it in the park! We also had the bright idea of making it the longest concert of the year with each group (HS concert band, JH concert band, 6th grade beginner band, 5th grade recorder ensemble, and the jazz band) all of which played around six pieces each. It was one of the most uncomfortable days I have spent in a performance situation. Hopefully next year will be neither too hot or too cold.
After the concert, the end of the year went well without too much drama. So we got to June and promptly sent our little one off to Houston to stay with her grandparents so Kayla and I could finally celebrate our 5 year anniversary almost when we're ready to celebrate our 6th year of marriage. We went to South Padre Island and had a wonderful time. We took a sand castle lesson and basically got an opportunity to reconnect with one another in a way that we haven't been able to in quite some time. Pictures of our excursion can be seen on Kayla's blog (http://www.meeplusthree.blogspot.com). One of the more memorable experiences we had was on our way home getting stopped in a border patrol checkpoint. The one question the officer asked us was "Are you citizens of the country?" of which we replied in the affirmative, and as we were driving away we found it odd that he didn't ask us which country we were citizens of. "Yes sir, we are citizens of the country, of course that country is Denmark, but whatever..."
We were also able to fill time in June through helping out in our local church by putting our musical expertise to the test in leading the music for Vuh-Vuh-VBS (for those that did the SBC version of Vacation Bible School, that's a little inside joke that I hope is humorous and brings back fond memories. I know it will for Kayla if no one else). We had a wonderful if exhausting week and it's always fun to interact with kids as they get to know Jesus through music. There's just something within most of us that draws us closer to God when we sing to Him than in most other forms of communication. I may be biased. The sad thing for me was that during the time leading up to VBS, we would have people come up to us either before or after church gatherings and tell me how glad they were that I was going to be leading the music for Vacation Bible School, when in all actuality it was my lovely wife who had volunteered and done all the leg work and taught a vast majority of the classes, but because of my position, people expected that it was me that was in charge. Fortunately after the week was completed my wife received some much needed "mad props" for all her hard work. UN-fortunately, our little one's schedule was thrown to heck through having both parents working in VBS and staying in the nursery each night. The first night was the worst. You can read more about that adventure again on my wife's blog mentioned above. Needless to say she did not get back on a normal sleep schedule until about the end of the first week of July, just in time for....