I will be continuing this blog at the following address:
http://blogcharm.com/charlie/

or just go to our web site for the link and other stuff too!!
http://charlieandheather.com

I know I haven't posted in a while. I am in the process of switching over to a new host for my blog. Visit our web page in the mean time!

I finally dug up the $85 bucks to become a member of GMA. It just makes sense for us. We want to do so much with our music and they offer a lot of resources to make that happen. I didn't make it in time for the competition though. To tell you the truth, I'm not a competition kind of guy. To tell you a little more, I'm scared of competitions = ( . I have to be honest. I'm 32 and don't have all my baby teeth if you know what I mean. And I know the life of a musician is not easy. There's a lot of work to be done and I'm prepared to do it. I don't need it all to be handed to me by getting signed (which I believe is about a one-in-a-million chance anyway). Anyblah, more on that as it unfolds. (ooh)!

Hey, listen to this! It's a song I'd really like to have on our next album. It's not finished yet. As are a lot of my songs. But we're getting back into the swing of things. I am probably King Procrastinator. Don't ever give me something to do and say, " whenever you can get to it"! I've taken so long to get to things that people have asked me to do, that it's not funny >:(

But Heather and I have to pretty much force ourselves to do stuff, at least when it comes to music. We have SO many songs that CAN be great, but if we don't finish them, how can they be? So off we go to the GMA Academy. A guy named Eric recommended it to us. Many Christian artists have started out going to events like that and have gone on to be successful in Christian music. We know that it's going to be a lot of hard work though. It's something we've started realizing the past couple of years. And when I look back at what we THOUGHT might happen (someone in an audience somewhere saying "here sign this... you're gonna be stars!"), I now see how silly that was.

So anywhoo, check out this clip. I think it's so funny. It's the kind of thing that happens all the time in a home with 4 kids. here's a brief description of it: I was getting some "Inspiration", some magical moment thinking of a new song and little Chucky came in, in all his innocence and pushed a couple of my very sensitive buttons. Then shortly after the violent "CLICK" at the end, I threw a short temper tantrum!

Oh man! We have been slacking off so much over the holidays! Sometimes there's just a lack of motivation, if you know what I mean. Just to update everyone, we really haven't done much on the album since the last post (which was a while ago) so please pray for INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION and for me to KICK IT INTO GEAR!! Well, now that I've got THAT off my chest =)
cHaRlIe!

Thank God for short term goals! It's amazing what you can accomplish when you write stuff down! Today I made a lot of progress on one of the new album's songs After the Rain . I found that, if you write down to get one song per week done, that you actually get it done (well, almost)! But it's a lot more than what I used to get done. So there's actually going to be some faster songs on our upcoming album. All the songs should be completed by the beginning of February, not including recording them. Recording, I' m assuming, will take another few months.

If you haven't noticed from the web page, we've also gotten our mission statement written. It's also amazing what you find out about yourself and what you want to do with your ministry, while writing your mission statement. I highly recommend the book The Path , by Laurie Beth Jones. It's about finding your mission and then writing your mission statement according to what you've "uncovered" about yourself.

Well I'm tired, I'll probably go to bed (in 2 or 3 hours). G'night. PS, Tenessee ROCKS!!

Heather and I are going to be recording an album. I guess I mentioned that on our website but I just want everyone to keep it in prayer. We really feel that this is what God wants us to do. We probably should've done it a long time ago, but the timing of everything seems to be just right. The kids are at an age where we can do this now and I believe that both Heather and I are mature enough in our relationships with God that there probably couldn't be any more perfect time than this.

This project will cost a lot of money, and like I said, we would never ask for free money, so if anyone would like to support us somehow, I'm trying to start-up a website called ScripShirts, located at http://scripshirts.net . You can go ahead and look around there if there's something you like. Basically they're kids shirts that I've designed, but some of us "older" kids can definately wear some of them too (Especially the 'God Rocks!' shirts)!

Anyway, I gotta get back to my regularly scheduled "nothing" from 11:00 to about 2:00 in the morning. See ya'.

This is my first blog thingy. Don't know what I'm gonna be saying on here yet, but I keep hearing that blogs are cool, so, here's mine. :-/