Diamond Rio at the Candlelight

Last night (aka July 1st) the country band Diamond Rio was at the Candlelight Dinner Theater.  They will be doing one more show there tonight.

A couple weeks ago I was asked if I wanted to serve.  Neal and I talked about it, since it was on one of my days off (and I love my days off).  I decided that it was going to be the only way I would get to see the show, AND I would get paid to see the show instead of paying to see it.

So, I served last night, and I'm SO glad I did!  Pat, the food and beverage manager, sent me and 3 other servers up to the green room to serve the band drinks.  That was WAY cool!

I got to watch the show after taking care of my server duties.  I also got to see Neal on stage with them.  It was pretty cool!!

Neal on stage with the keyboard player.

Sound check

Neal's view from monitor world.

Graduation and the Candlelight

In May Neal officially graduated with his Associates of Arts degree from Front Range Community College.

The biggest piece of news for us though, is that Neal will no longer be running the nightly shows at the Candlelight.  He's been doing the nightly shows for over two years now, and he's learned the sound board and the space so well, that he's starting to get bored.  That combined with being promoted to stage manager at the Union Colony Civic Center, we've decided that he needs to open his schedule to be more available for calls at the Civic Center.  He's also hoping to be available a whole lot more for Point Source, the audio production company he works for.  He will still be doing the big shows like Diamond Rio this next week, Lee Greenwood, and Maureen McGovern later this year.

He's pretty excited to mix front of house for "Proud to Be an American" for Lee Greenwood.

It's a little bit of a leap of faith for us.  We're not going to have a "guaranteed" biweekly paycheck.  But both of us have felt very strongly that this is the right thing for us to do.  We know the Lord has taken care of us before, and He will do so now :)