Singin' and Soccerin' (plus pizza!)

The karaoke night at Grace was a lot of fun... turned out it was sort of a "karaoke and dancing" night! Every three or four songs they played a track from a dance CD and everyone who wanted to could do the Grapevine or the Electric Slide or whatever. (I don't do group dancing, so I just had fun watching.) Cathy and I did get to sing the duet we've been working on, but it was a rough performance... the person before us had turned Cathy's microphone off (!) and she didn't realize it until a couple of lines into her first verse (which is solo D'OH!!!), and then the track was so loud that we actually literally couldn't hear ourselves singing. But I think we did a good job on it considering the adverse circumstances. Cathy also jumped in and sang background vocals on a couple of songs... "Sweet Home Alabama" was one. Mikey sang sort of an impromptu duet of lead vox on that one. He also sang the Tree63 version of "Blessed Be Your Name" with me singing along... what he didn't know was that I held the mic as far away from my mouth as I could and sang really loud so mostly only he could hear me helping him keep his place, and everyone could hear HIM sing! Mwa ha ha! So everybody got to hear Mikey singing it! For my part, I sang some BTO "Takin' Care Of Business" which is on the high side for me but I was able to spit it out OK. People seemed to respond well, so the end result must have been acceptable!

We went over to Mom and Dad's house to pick up Hannah, and we sang our same song, "Pure", for them, and then we followed up with "Revelation Song". They really liked it and want us to call their music minister and come sing at their church sometime! By that time Cathy was worn out from practicing all day and then singing all night... she totally wore herself out!

The next day we went out to one of Mikey's soccer team's games. Turns out we picked a good one... afterward everybody went out to Incredible Pizza for an end-of-season party! We had a terrific time! Mikey hasn't been able to play for most of the season because of his broken arm (which will be splinted until the week after the final soccer tournament) but he's still "part of the team" and he'll be back on the same team next season. In fact, next week when we get back from Cub Scout camp we'll probably head out and see if his team is still playing tournament games. They've only lost one single game all season (!), so they should go far!

We realized at Incredible Pizza that one of the couples whose kid is on Mikey's soccer team not only have a mutual friend with us (the boy was in a drama class with the daughter of a good friend of ours from church), but they actually both went to ORU at the same time as I did... in fact, they met in a class at ORU! I always thought the dad looked a little familiar. It's a small town after all!