Father’s Day…

… or, How To Spoil A Dad in a few easy steps!

Yeah, I know, there’s a Sunday Setlist in here too – part of Fred’s carnival.  But I’m combining to save time or something.

The muzik:

• Sing, Sing, Sing [A]
• Hosanna (Praise Is Rising) [F]
• Fairest Lord Jesus [C-D] (Nockles)
• kids
• Love The Lord [D]
• announcements
• message
• Your Mercy [F]

Yep – a shorter service means fewer songs (but only by 1).  I think Sing Sing Sing gets longer each time we do it… Chris keeps adding a chorus here an instrumental there, another chorus (or 3)… I think the song is up to like 8 minutes or something now.  But it’s fun to sing (which is good with how repetative it has become these days!)  Seriously.  To Tomlin’s recording we have added a 2nd chorus @ the beginning, 2 instrumentals and 2 choruses @ the end.  yup.

But I skipped ahead of myself.

We only had 6 people today – 3 singers, 1 keyboard, 1 drummer and 1 injured acoustic player.  She did great, but man do I feel bad that she came to play anyway when she could barely stand up!  Next week it’s just her & the drummer… isn’t Summer vacation fun!  Chris switched to keys since it fills in the sound better than electric, and it was great… even though most of us are feeling under the weather.

Fairest Lord Jesus… this is a great version!  It’s the one from Watermark with the addedin chorus.  Once people figured out the melody it went really well.  Yeah, it grew a little longer too (but that was my fault!)  It just seemed too soon to end it after the 4th verse. *shrug*

Love  The Lord was a bit slower today as well, since Taya was hurting – I let her set the pace that she could cofortably play, and it worked really quite well.  Jen thought it was easier to do the motions too, which helps.  Your Mercy was… well, it’s just strange to me when there’s no electric.  I’m so used to the sound that without it seems, well, lacking.  But it worked out.

It being Washington and all and the first day of Summer AND a day that we planned a BBQ, we woke up to rain.  Beautiful, drenching, soggy ground rain.

And I was praying for sun.  I know – weird.  Me actually wanting sun!

By the time church was over, however, the sun was peaking out (although there were very light sprinkles even while it was shining) and everyone was able to hang around and fellowship.

Now to the best part of the day…

It’s Father’s Day here in the States, which means that we get to spoil the lone gent here in the Hudson household.  Poor guy is surrounded by girls – even the cat is a girl!

He mentioned about 3 weeks ago that he’d been craving some red meat… and seriously, who doesn’t from time to time!  No, we really don’t eat much meat around here (too expensive).  Strange since we are all such carnivores!  So, for Father’s Day I picked up a couple of steaks…

Yesterday we had a BBQ with Eric’s Mom, and Tami & Jason to celebrate both FD and mom’s birthday.  Complete with a Cold Stone cake!  The meat was a top round London Broil.  Two, actually.  And they were HUGE.  Marinated in a garlic hoisin sauce for a couple of hours then grilled to perfection… ah yes.  Tasty.

But today is Father’s Day, right?  LEftovers just wouldn’t do.  No, we had to have something new… like top sirloin.  Plus all of the fixin’s o’course.

• Top sirloin rubbed with Montreal Steak Seasoning and seared in a butter & merlot reduction, then broiled for 10 minutes.
• Herbed new potatoes – dry roasted in a 450F oven with chopped sweet onions, oregano and herbes de Provence.
• Honey-Ginger-Dill glazed carrots.  Oh, and they were sooooo good.
• Sauteed mushrooms – sauteed in the drippings from the seared steak with some balsamic vinegar and the rest of the secred ingredients.  Sorry, my Daddy’s recipe (tweaked, of course)
• Artichoke with herbed butter & herbed sour cream for dipping.
• salad w/ crumbled feta, cranberries and cucumbers .  While balsamic vinaigrette.
• Fresh Vienna bread (a Haggen’s thing – slightly sweet, slightly crusty french-style bread.  very good)
• Sparkling lemonade

Yep – that’s spoiling the gent!  Oh, and we left the house so he could take a nice nap too.  Had to go to the store to get ingredients!

So that was our Father’s Day… relaxing, lazy and topped off with yummy food.  I’m getting ready to devour a leftover peice of birthday cake now… red velvet cake w/ strawberry ice cream.  Yum!

How was YOUR Father’s Day?