Brett Dennen

For all of you who are not lucky enough to have been introduced, this is Brett Dennen and last night he gave an amazing concert in Libby Bowl for the Food for Thought organization. The night started out a little slow, but lots of fun. RJ's band played first (they were the third runner up in the Battle of the Bands). The other groups in the battle of the Bands were pretty good, but non could compare to the incredible sounds of Emy Reynolds!!! She rocked the house and everyone loved her.

Up next was an artist named Perla Batalla. She was actually really really good. She had sort of a folk meets mariachi music sound to her (all of her songs were in Spanish). It was great fun sitting and watching all of these Ojai Hippies dancing their little hearts out. Some could dance really well and others... bless their hearts... should have sat back down.

The main event of the night (even though most people still have no idea who he is) was Brett Dennen. He is this huge Irishman (about 6'6" and 250lbs) that sings kinda folk style music. He's lyrics are absolutely amazing and everyone should check him out online or something. He started out a little slow, but halfway through the evening he started hoola hooping with one of the Ojaian Hippies' glowing hoola hoop... It was soooooo good!!!!

Anyway, just thought that I would share my very exciting evening with you all. School starts for reals this week (classes Mon-Thurs... woohoo!!!). On a more work related note, Mason and Caden are doing well. Caden was starting to get a little Colicy, but we switched to the platex drop-in bottles (the kind that you can push the air out before you stick it into the baby's mouth) and that seems to be helping out a lot! Mason still hate Caden and hates anyone who is paying attention to Caden and not him (when I hold Caden, Mason is ok cause I still try and talk to him and pay attention to him, but he won't take his eyes off me for a minute). Mason's therapy is going really really well. He is now crawling (well, army crawl, but it is forward movement and it is really fast) and getting stronger every day. He is supposed to have his eyelid surgery on September 17th (he goes in for his pre-opp appointment tomorrow). He also has to go in for a CAT scan (or maybe it was an MRI... I dunno something in his brain) later this week to check on his brain growth. His doctor is still worried about the neurological affects of his vaccinations (if you don't know the story he had a bad reaction to the whooping cough vaccination: sent him into seizures: and could very well be the reason for him being a little slower then most kids his age). So, there is a lot going on in that family right now. Please pray for rest and strength for everyone (That Sam would sleep, that Caden would sleep so Sam could sleep, that Helmuth would learn how he can help his wife, that Mason's brain is ok and keeps developing as it should...). Anyway... that's it... have a great week everyone!!!