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Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday night and supported the Caudill Family and
Friends at the Cystic Fibrosis Benefit!!! Almost $4,000 were raised!!! Thank you, Thank
you, Thank you!!!!!
Well folks-sure hope everyone is enjoying the warmer days! Actually, we have a heavy
frost this morning, but it is supposed to get back into the 70's this week!! Yippee!!!
We got to play at the First Annual Merle Rowlett Festival in Madison on the 5th, along with
Blueline. We spent most of the day there and had a really good time. It was nice to be
out, with the nice weather, so the kids could do some extra jammin', and they did!
On Friday, the 11th, we went to Seymour to the Heartbeat Cafe to watch Destiny
perform. They had asked Noah to come play banjo for them and the rest of us thought it
would be nice to go watch them. Destiny always puts on a great Gospel show and their
harmonies are tremendous!! They ended up getting us to come up and pick a few and we
ended the show with all of us stage- Jammin'- what a great time!!!
On Sunday, the 13th, we went to Annette's house( Shari's sister) to celebrate her
birthday! We all had a really good time and we had a good time of fellowship.
Hope you had a GREAT BIRTHDAY, ANNETTE!
We will hopefully see you all around at a show somewhere soon!!!!
Well the Easter Season has come and gone, sure hope everyone had a blessed day and
remembered to take the time out of their busy schedules to thank Jesus Christ for the
ultimate sacrifice that He made for all of us!! We had a double blessing this year, because
David's birthday was on Easter this year! This month has been a slow one for us (when it
came to performing!) The upcoming months are sure to get busier. It was kind of nice to
just hang-out at home some this month, though : -)
Noah had his 18th birthday this month amd is looking into his plans for college and his
future. He will be attending IVY Tech this fall to pursue Law Enforcement. Noah wants to
be an Indiana State Trooper when he is finished-plus he has to be 21 before they will
accept an application. Please keep him in your prayers, the upcoming months will surely be
bringing some new and confusing times for him. Noah's Civil Air Patrol Unit, was called to
Evansville to help with the flooding last week. He said they filled sandbags and filled some
more and then went and stacked. He said they kept a 5' wall of water away from a soldiers
house who is stationed in Iraq! What a great thing to do!! We were so proud of all of them.
Of course, Noah was so sore when he got home---but not to sore to pick---Jake Brown and
Donnie Collings came the next day to do some practicing for Blueline! They play at the
Donner Center at the end of the month and had a bunch of new songs to work out!!
Jake and his fiancee Kathy, Donnie and his wife Kayla, along with Noah and Elizabeth went
to see The Dan Tyminski Band and they are all fired up about learning some new songs!!!!
We have started our next CD--we have 6 songs started, with 4 of them almost completely
done! We are keeping busy learning some brand new songs to put on this CD.
We are so glad that SPRING is finally here and we can start planning the garden!!! It is
always so enjoyable to start working around in the yard and the waiting for fresh lettuce and
onions is a hard thing to do, but it is so worth it!! Hope everyone enjoys our longer days
and sure hope that is gets warmer and warmer every day!!!!
We had a great weekend! On Friday evening we were in Everton, at Harvest Time
Restaurant. We had a GREAT crowd!! We had 6 new songs and everyone seemed to like
them--especially Elizabeth's new claw hammer song--Keep on the Sunny Side, and when
Rebekah played twin fiddle with Elizabeth on --Angeline the Baker! On Saturday we were
at Heritage House Nursing Home in Seymour, they are always so appreciative and we
enjoy playing there. That evening we went to Little Grantville. What a wonderful time. We
played after Leatherwood Valley ( who are always a joy!) and then New Terrain played and
Noah joined Destiny on stage and played bass for them! Yes, bass, and he had blisters
when he got done----so he now has a little more sympathy for his Dad : - ) New Terrain and
Destiny are both full of wonderful people and both wonderful bands--they both have terrific
harmony and play for the most important reason---to give glory to our Savior, Jesus Christ!
On Sunday evening we performed before our Pastor Dan Selby gave his sermon. We are
so thankful for our home church--Pastor Selby is a wonderful man and pastor and always
has a terrific sermon!!! Come join us some Sunday at Faith Baptist Church on Moscow
Road in Greensburg!!!
Hope everyone has been getting through the cold snap that we have been having! Brrrrr-it
has been really bad, but January is almost over and hopefully, February will be better!
We played at the Donner Center on the 12th and had a totally Great Time. We got to see
the Northam's and the Collin's again, we haven't seen the Northam's for over a year-so it
was great to see them. They hadn't ever heard David or Noah sing, so they really got fired
up when they both sang that night! They kept the crowd going and in turn, made up put on
a good show!!! (It is amazing how a crowd can make you play better, but they do!!) Thanks
to Joe Wright and Jackie Combest for having us!!
On the 26th we were to play at Henryville, but we didn't make it :-( On Friday Elizabeth and
Rebekah were playing on our pond--and Elizabeth twisted her knee wrong and hurt it. It is
getting better, but really hurt on Saturday and we figured all the steps at Henryville would
hurt her knee more-so us girls all stayed home ---
Jake Brown and Blueline played at Henryville, though, so David and Noah and David's
brother, Bruce, went on down. Bruce said the guys did a real good show the first official
time playing as "Blueline." We were really sorry to miss it, but we will get to see them this
coming Saturday when we both play at Madison!
We had the honor to play at Little Grantville today for a benefit for Company B 113th
Support Battalion of the Indiana National Guard! It is always wonderful to play for a benefit
that is so totally close to our hearts. We want to thank everyone for coming out and
supporting Gary and Patty Grant as they raised money for the Family Readiness Group to
help military families in need! Thanks to everyone's support over $820.00 was raised!!!!
Gary and Patty have three sons that will all soon be overseas---our thoughts and prayers
need to be with them and with every family that is facing their loved ones being overseas!!
Thanks again, for including us!!!
We hope everyone has a wonderful NewYear!!!!!
It has been some time since I have updated this---so much has been happening! The month
has been a busy one--we had some real fun shows--especially Hayden and
Henryville---hometown crowds are so much fun!! We played at Harvest Time Restaurant
again, and the weather was awful---thanks to everyone who came to see us that
night--especially John and Mary Oxrider, who came all the way from California to see
us---well actually, they are Sharon's, Shari's sister-in-law, parent's and came in to spend the
holidays with Wesley and Sharon!!! Sharon did a great job dancing (and I promise to never
ask her to dance again!!!) Wes Wells asked us back to Harvest Time again in
February--that will be great. We also played at the Hope House of Prayer this month---and
what can we say----a church with a bass, banjo, mandolin and guitars on stage---we felt
right at home as soon as we walked in!!! Thanks for having us--it was great!!!! We just got
back from having a wonderful Christmas with family and had a great time in Ohio. We went
to Ohio on Sunday morning and spent it with the Fenton family--thanks Dad for putting up
with us for so long!!! Wesley and Sharon the house looks Great!!! We then went to
Charity Baptist Church Sunday evening and had a great time of fellowship and fun with a
wonderful church family and seven other members of the Wullenweber family! It was so nice
to listen to Pastor Dan read the Christmas story--it is so nice to take the time to remember
the real reason for this time of year!! We spent Monday and Tuesday at Dad's house and
the whole family came over on Christmas and a great time was had by all!! We had to
come home fairly early, David had to go back to work on Wednesday!! Hope everyone had
a truly blessed Christmas season!!!!
