We’ve been on the road alot lately so I’m a little behind on the updates. July 3rd @ Grundy County Fair what can I say but awesome. Approx. 5000 folks in the grandstand to watch our show before the BIG fireworks, it is always a great turnout. We’ve seen good fireworks in the past few years, but nothing, I mean nothing compares to Grundy’s fireworks. These fireworks are off the scale incredible!!! Went from Grundy to Lakeville Festival @ Newton Park, this park is the bomb. Mr. Newton went all out when creating this park, not shy from perfection. Baseball fields, soccer fields, playground, air conditioned bathrooms w/ changing rooms. When they built this they definitely had kids in mind. Newton Park is always a great place to play and this year the new location for the stage resulting in a bigger and better crowd to perform for. Lakeville to Haynes Apperson Festival in Kokomo, what a fun time! Opening up for The Little River Band was a blast and just to watch them perform was incredible. It was the perfect night for Michelle being this was one of her favorite groups while growing up listening to music. Their musicianship was awesome to experience while the lead singer’s voice was close to perfect as you could get. We hope to go back to Celina, OH for the family picnic, being we were scheduled for Sunday not many folks came out. I think everybody was tired from the whole weekend being busy with alot of things to do, so Sunday was rest day. Howard Co. Fair, hadn’t been their for about 4 yrs. so it was nice to be back. We thought we might get rained on so we moved inside, good choice because the rain came about 30 mins. into our show. We had a great time and I think the folks that were there had fun also ( Hope we go back in 2009-hint). Shadyside Park- first time to perform in the park, the setting was beautiful. It great when folks can bring their lawnchairs or blankets and relax and listen to some good old music. It was good to see some friends we hadn’t seen for awhile, plus Matt’s, Cliff’s and Micah’s parents all got to come to this performance. LaGrange Co. Fair is another fair that we always look forward to, the folks on the fair board are really cool. They definitely go out of their way to make sure we have everything we need. This year the crowd was alittle bigger than in the past so hopefully we can build on for next year. Delaware Co. Fair- our hometown crowd. Michelle and I always look forward to this show, we don’t get to perform in our own town to often. We had approx. 600-700 folks and for the area we play that’s a great crowd. We really appreciate it when our hometown crowd comes out and supports us, it means so much to us. Steuben Co. Fair- we wanted to play outside in the open air but we were being threatened by rain, so we moved it into the Pig Arena. The floor was full of saw dust with alittle pig manure smell mixed in, but the sound was really good. The saw dust kept the sound from being real echoey. Second year to perform there and the crowd was much bigger than last year. Greg Rhodes performed with us and did a great job as usual. Cowboy Church- If you’ve never been to one, you need to experience it. The service is for 4-H kids and parents to still have worship time on Sunday without leaving the fairgrounds. We did the praise and worship music before the lesson and then after the lesson we sang some good old country music w/alittle variety. It’s really cool and fun because we set up right in the grass out in the field. The speaker this year was Mr. Coppess, his message was delivered while on a horse- very good! Marion Co. Fair- Just got back about 11:00pm, sat down and started my updates for the shows so far. This is the first year we played this fair, and are definitely going back in 2009. We had a blast and the crowd was really into our music and performance. I sang to a few folks but one in particular was off the charts, an older lady named Mary. She first of all took a taxi to the fair by herself, danced with me where she sat plus on stage, ended up on stage at the end of the night just chilling out with the band members walking around during our last few songs, very sweet lady, but found out later that she was legally blind and wore hearing aids. Thanks to Nadeen and the Marion Co. Fair board for taking a chance on us, we had a great time and look out we’re coming back in 2009.