Rock Band and New Year's Eve

We celebrated New Year's Eve at our house this year, with friends from TSCC. To begin the evening, we watched IU get ran over by OK State - hey, at least they made it to a bowl. Maybe better days are coming for IU football (I sound like a Cub fan!). But the true highlight was when The Simpson family brought out their "Rock Band" game.

I had a flash back to School of Rock, and likely used every quote from the movie. And the highlight, at least for me, was when me and my posse (Jacob on guitar and Tanner Simpson on drums) pulled off Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive." Sadly, there are no pictures of the New Year's miracle. Maybe that's for the best, as a picture just couldn't have captured the electricity in the room. Especially as I belted out “I’ve seen a million faces and I’ve rocked them all”. Of course, that line really only works if you are on the floor, down on one knee, while giving the “hook em horns” rock and roll salute, as demonstrated here by Yassir Arafat:

After my signature performance, we made coffee (yes, we're getting old), and played Sequence right up until it was time for Ryan and Dick to drop the ball. Kids were running everywhere beating wooden spoons against pots and pans, and "ringing in the New Year." Guy closed out our party by reading from Philippians 3, and he challenged each of us to know Christ more fully in 2008 and to live in the power of His resurrection.

Again, I am reminded that when friends fill your home, you are blessed. It's already a good year.