Days 5-6: Belle Fourche to Rapid City

Saturday night we arrived in Belle Fourche where luke played a concert for a smaller youth crowd but it was great, its been a big change going from a full band to solo so the feedback was really encouraging for Luke. We were also taken care of like kings it was really nice for the boys and I cause our hotel had pool which is what we did while Luke had his concert. We also got to spend some time with the Youth Pastors Clay and Miranda and really connected with them, they have awesome hearts for the Lord and the Youth in their city. We also went to their church this morning and luke got invited to play a song for their service, and we even ran into a couple who used to live in the valley, what a small world it is. We finally started towards Rapid City since Luke will be playing here tomorrow, and we have a lot of site seeing to do in this area. We went to TATANKA Kevin Costners Interpretive Center about the buffalo and Native Americans, or I should say Luke and Noah did. Gabe was sleeping and I didn't feel like killing my back walking through the center carrying him, so we stayed and napped in the car. Then we drove through Deadwood, saw where Wild Bill was shot and then drove through Lead an old gold mining town. Tomorrow we stay again in Rapid City and are going to the Reptile Gardens and maybe Mount Rushmore before lukes show, and then we start making our way to Junction City. So there will definately be good pics tomorrow!

Day 2-4: Butte, Billings, Birthdays....fun!!!

Wednesday we arrived in Butte where Luke and I lead worship at Abundant Life for their youth service. Luke was still struggling with a fever but worship was great the kids entered right in which is always awesome to see among teens since that can be such a hard age to walk out, so it was encouraging to see them excited to enter in. We were blessed by a great family that not only fed us a wonderful dinner but housed us to (Thanks so much Michone, Jacob, Daniel, Rachel, Ezekiel, and Joshua). We headed to Billings Thursday morning not to long of a drive so the boys did great, and lukes fever broke in the night so he was feeling much better. Luke taught on worship at New Life church to their youth worship band and while we had planned to camp out for a few days here in a tent, the youth pastor Danny and his wife Laurie (and their 4 amazing kids)invited us to stay in their home (and they fed us) which was an awesome blessing. Laurie who is a super mom (I mean seriously like superman only in mom form) opened their home to us despite a twisted ankle, cold, and planning her sons birthday party. Not only this but she invited the boys to Micah's party which was a blast. Then tonight we had a night of worship in their house with a few of their friends, words just can't express how great and blessed we have been here, and everywhere we've been so far. It's been wonderful meeting new people and making new friends and family. Tomorrow we are headed to Rapid City SD a six hour drive and then luke plays, please keep us in your prayers while things are going well we are still fighting off sickness and the boys need a lot of covering just being out of their usual environment and having to keep moving is definately going to be a stretch on us all. Miss you all and Blessings from us!

Day 2

We left Yesterday at noon and headed to Missoula where we got to go to the G Love concert (I won some tickets off the radio before we left) while our good friends Tom and Erica watched the boys a nice little treat before our extended time of no breaks from them. Today we will be heading to Butte where Luke will play, while on the subject of luke please keep him in prayer healthwise, not only does he still deal with a lot of backpain but he seems to have come down with some kind of bug and is running a bit of a fever...I guess it wouldn't really be tour if someone wasn't sick, but seeing how hes the "driver" I would much rather it had been one of us. We love you all and thank you for all your thoughts and prayer.

2 days to go!!

So we've finished all of our inside projects, we've gotten the yard as prepared as possible just in case it snows before we come back, and with the amazing talent of Zach and Adam we now have a beautiful stamped sidewalk (yeahhhh!), and I also have to give a shout out to Tony Crouteau Jr. for helping luke reorganize the sheds so I didn't have to. I've got one suitcase packed (the boys) and a whole house to clean as well as a few loose billing ends to finish up tomorrow but then its off to the great wide open...well missoula.....check in again soon

Preparations

So this is my first time blogging so hopefully this is all set up correctly. Anyways the countdown has begun exactly 6 days 12 hrs till we leave on our family tour and the chaos has commenced. As we rush around finishing home projects (which we have put off for the past month)and making lists of what needs to get done I feel the anxiousness to just be gone already setting in. So I will update as often as possible once on the road. Blessings everyone