Don't take advantage. (Torre)
We have been going since I was 9 and Lex was 11. Its a weekend to get away and do "dad" stuff. Like shoot guns (I hate guns.. But Lex shot a pistol this year!), paintball, archery, build rockets, disc golf, have a formal dinner (Our dads write us love notes (: )and so much more. Lex and I cherish this time with our dad since he likes to be home while us girls go out on the road.
We always meet up with our friends the Mortensons, Asproths, and Thoreens when we get there and its tradition to play volleyball till 1am and play paintball daughters against the dads. (So far we usually win..) ;)
During Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday morning we have 4 sessions to dig into Gods word and then break out into sessions so we can talk about "girl" stuff with our friends. Its so awesome to catch up with our friends about life... oh and boys... ;)
Lex and I are so blessed to have the dad we do and this weekend is always a friendly reminder of that.
At the end of the weekend our group gets together, picks a rock for themselves or as a family, and we go to a rock pile that has been in the works for years. We all stand around it, read Joshua 4, say how thankful we are, what we learned during the weekend and pray with each other. As we were praying this year God put on my heart "Don't take advantage". Now.. If you know me.. I do NOT like crying.. and so everyone prayed and it was silent.. till one of the dads said "Girls.. If God is laying something on your heart.. share it.." I started crying and told everyone (mostly to the girls) "While we were praying God put on my heart to NEVER take advantage of our dads. We are blessed to have them and some people don't even have one. And if we didn't have our dads we wouldn't know what to do." While we were praying I was just going to say "bless our travels home.. thanks for this awesome weekend...etc.." and God THE MAKER OF EVERYTHING told me to speak out when I wasn't even looking or wanting to. When God wants it... He gets it.. :)
So I just wanted to blog about our weekend with our dad and hopefully some of you girls out there email us and ask us to come with your dads next year! It is so much fun! So I will be waiting ;)
Here's some pictures!
And that's our weekend at Father/Daughter.
Mail time!
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I just wanted to blog about our life a little bit!
We have new songs that Lex and our friend Eric worked on the last time we were down in Nashville and they sound so awesome! We can't wait for all of you to hear them! We currently don't have many shows for the rest of the year to take a little break and get refocused on the band and have time to spend the holidays with our family and friends. :)
We now have a P.O. box so if you ever want to send us a letter to encourage us or whatever heres the address :)
P.O. box 891 Faribault, MN 55021
We are planning to go back on the road in February and hopefully getting a new record out soon!
Thank you so much for keeping up with our craziness and blessing us along the way! You are all so amazing and we are blessed by you!
<3Torre
Nashville take 2! (Torre)
We are currently in Nashville writing some more with our friend Eric.
Lex is writing a song while I write this superly awesome blog! :)
This time we drove down here in my car to save money.
It was a 13 hour drive and Lex and I did it in one day.
Since then we've just been writing and hanging out with our friends that go to school down here, so its nice to catch up!
We checked out a church down here called Journey and it was such an awesome church! If we lived down here... pretty sure we already found a church :)
Have you guys seen that Lex's book she co-wrote is out now!? You should go buy 1.. or 2.... or 10! Its on Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and a bunch of other places!
If you wanna see some pictures that we took while we are in Nashville, go to www.facebook.com/brightlightparade and you can find them there!
Thanks for reading and supporting us!
<3Torre
Helloooo Fall!
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We head out on a 10 day tour in about a week and a half, out to Virginia Beach! We have shows on the way there and on the way back, so if you live on the East Coast, check our schedule to see if you can catch a show!
We are in the process of writing new music, and also keeping busy with our everyday lives! I spend much time watching a 7 month old during the week, and when we don't have shows on the weekends, I work at a banquet center in a hotel... serving mostly wedding receptions! I also keep busy as a youth leader, and serving on the worship team at my church! Torre is now a youth leader as well, and she also serves on the Youth Worship Team. We absolutely LOVE our Church, "River Valley Church"...
We are believing for big things to happen this next year, and that God would do great things through us! We are SO blessed by each and every one of you who pray for us, support us, and encourage us.
<33 Lex & Torre
Lovin' Nashville!
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We can't believe that our trip to Nashville is already half way over!
So far we have written, hot tubbed, ate delicious meals, went to an amazing studio and met a well known producer, quality time with our manager, and just enjoying our time here.
We wrote 3 songs in 3 days and love them!
It's amazing how you look up to people in bands and they are never how you thought they would act or be. But we got to write with Nick and meet his wife Trish and they are such amazing individuals and together! Its so good to see that in the industry.
Now we are at the hotel watching "Wipe out" ahahaha it's a good show! :)
We can't wait for you all to hear the new songs!
Naaaaaaaashville!!
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Stellar Kart,
Superchick,
Zombies
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This is our first time ever being here and we LOVE it!
You know how when you're younger, listening to your CD player (YES cd player!) thinking how cool it would be to meet the band or people in the band some day?
Well today that same true! We went to the Baumhardt household which happens to be Nick (Stellar Karts guitarist) and Trish (lead singer of Superchick). You should've seen me and Lex before we got to their house... I was in the car saying "Guys.. I'm so nervous.." and we met Nick and he was one of the coolest guys we've met!
We're here to write songs with Nick and meet some people! Today we met with our friend Amy Wolter and ate some amazing mexican food as well! We feel so privileged to be meeting and working with the people that we have! We wouldn't have thought in a bajillion gazillion years we would be meeting and working with such amazing people!
Now we are just hanging out in our hotel room watching AGT and resting before another long day of writing tomorrow!
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| This is me and my new friend Mila! |
I know this was a little boring.. but I told you all I would blog! so here it is! Hopefully I'll have more to say tomorrow!
Much love <3
Torrrrrrrre.
p.s. here's Lex's personal blog.. it may be more interesting ;) http://lexsjourney.blogspot.com)
p.s. here's Lex's personal blog.. it may be more interesting ;) http://lexsjourney.blogspot.com)
Rock stars? Rock no thank you! (Torre)
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Do you know what our days look like when we’re home? We spend time with family, clean the house, spend time at church, work at the Holiday Inn and spending time at home doing nothing.
Does that sound like a “rock star” to you?
When we’re on the road, this is what our days look like. We wake up (usually early..), get ready (takes about an hour..), load up the van or trailer, drive hours, get to the show, unload and set up, sound check, eat dinner, play a show, meet amazing people, tear down equipment, load up and drive either home, to a hotel or a host home and repeat this for as long as we’re on tour. J
Does that sound like a “rock star” to you?
If those make someone sound like a rock star then you’ve got it all wrong. When Lex and I were younger and started the band we wanted so hard to try and make it “big” with music and be like these other bands we looked up to. We tried acting like “huge rock stars” and it got us nowhere. We have realized that being a rock star is not what we want. We’re normal people with normal jobs and happen to be in a band that travels sharing Gods word and love. We have had the privilege to play with some bands that we have always looked up to and wanted to be like. We saw how they acted on stage and off. We couldn’t believe how they would stay in their buses all day, or play a show and not looking like they’re having any fun at all and acted like what I’d call “divas”.
We played a show yesterday at a festival in Minnesota called Higher Ground and here is all what went wrong during our set: Ears weren’t working, guitar straps broke, guitar strings broke, amps weren’t working, and to top it all off we were already running 10 minutes late with our sound check. But you know what? We were all still smiling and having a blast. When we got done and all loaded up we had a voice mail from our little helper that said, “You guys need to not dilly dally. There’s a signing line for you guys.” As I was walking to the merch table I was thinking “I bet when I get there, there’s going to be one person..” I got to the table and there was no one there. So I thought to myself “I knew it!” Our little helper handed us markers, pointed and said “Okay.. There’s the line!” All 4 of us looked at each other and couldn’t believe that many people would want our signatures, or even wait in line!
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| It may not look like a lot.. but it was a lot for us! J |
What I want this blog to get across is, we are not rock stars and we don’t ever want to be. God has brought us to where we are to be the difference the world needs to see. Just because we’re in a band does not make us more cool or better than anyone.
We do what we do because we love what we do. J
If you need prayer, or just want to talk write to us!
brightlightparade@hotmail.com
brightlightparade@hotmail.com
Or add us on Facebook! :)
facebook.com/lexbanderson
facebook.com/torreblp
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