To catch up...

So it's been another big gap in time since my last blog and there has been a ton of things that have happened since the last one. I became a father again on September 20th to Meester Elijah Shane Mateo Mompean born healthy and is now 4 months and doing quite well.

Our Sarah Bear started kindergarten at a charter school as a brand spankin new 5 yr old! Seeing her in school and learning and doing well is just awesome.

I was able to meet, perform, and play with my favorite guitar player of all time, Phil Keaggy, in a benefit for my son Joshua along side Tommy McClendon who was a teacher to me 25 years ago, also one of the best guitar players I have ever known, and one of the nicest guys I know. That night meant a lot to me on so many levels and continues to bring my heart joy every time I think about it. Along side my other good friends shell, Tracy, Taylor, Troy, and the guys in Random Status. It was a night I will never forget. My son also did very well and I was very proud of him.

As if that night wasn't enough, the next day I spent the day with Phil Keaggy and his road manager Darrin, also a very nice guy, chauffeuring them around Monterey area to Roseville North of Sacramento. I not only got to jam with and perform with Phil but I got to know him for a day and he was gracious, humble, down to Earth, and everything I have always thought he would be. I was blessed beyond measure because I had that night, then the next day, then three days later my son was born.

Now I am playing with two bands, my brother got me in to see the NAMM show a few weeks ago and he got me a gig recording some of my own music that I have written that will be in a movie called Living By The Gun, and we got to take the kids to Disneyland while we were in LA. I am also preparing to take the test again for my license.

All in all it has been very busy but it has been good and we are very blessed.

God is good.