Memories

Do you ever find yourself looking at old photos over and over and over again?  I love looking at the family pictures we take each year on the Winzeler side, and since Kelsie's been taking them it's more of an obsession.  Check out the photos from our session in October.  (I'm looking forward to being able to post photos from the Reed family Christmas early next year!!)

iPhone Saves the Day!

Okay, this is just a quick, silly post, but I want to write about one of the many reasons why I love my iPhone.  Yesterday my pastor (aka my boss :) ) asked if I was going to play the theme from "Indiana Jones" as he came up to preach, as we discussed.  It was Whole Family Sunday--a day when the young kids aren't dismissed to Sunday School and stay for the whole service.  The theme of the message was partly about life with God as an Adventure (unexpected, exciting).  It's fun ... you know ... for the kids.

I had completely forgotten about that!  I had said I would bring my John Williams CD from home to play the "Raiders March," but I left it at home.  He asked if I could play it on the keyboard.  

This was about 10 minutes before the first service, mind you.  Now, I'm pretty good at picking things out by ear, but I wasn't going to try to practice it while everyone was coming in for church.  Plus, I don't think anything I could pull out on keys would be the same as playing the orchestral recording.

I was looking at my watch and thinking, "If I race home now (a 3-min drive), find the CD and come back, I should have a couple minutes to spare ... .  No, that's crazy.  We just won't have the music."  Then it hit me: I can just download the track from iTunes on my iPhone!  I did a quick search, found the track, downloaded it, and hooked up my phone to the sound system, and voila!  It was perfect.  Thank you, iPhone, for letting God use you today. :)