We have been busy filming Theresa in the Kitchen working on some of her favorite recipes for her upcoming cooking DVD that will be out later this year. She will also be featured on two of the new episodes of the “LIFE’S HIGHWAY” TV show.  Theresa is known for her knowledge and expertise in the kitchen.  Theresa’s grandparents came to America in the early 1900’s from Italy.  She has spent many days with her grandmother learning how to cook.  She also gets great recipes and ideas from people while on the road.  Her DVD will feature main dishes, side dishes, and several great desserts.  Theresa is pictured here with authentic Italian Spagetti and Meatballs.  Let’s have some fun with this……Email us your idea of what you think Theresa should name her DVD!  If we use your idea, we will send you a “LIFE’S HIGHWAY”  T-shirt!  Also, go to Facebook and become a fan of Wade Spencer!  By the way, What is your favorite main course you would like to see on Theresa’s DVD?

Two of my friends from Ukraine shown here modeling their new “Life’s Highway” T-shirts!  Roma Vashchuk and his wife Roza came to the US with Lena Gorianska last summer to visit with us.  They also recorded two songs with me on my CD “Fresh Awakening”.  They really enjoyed working in the studio with Kevin Ward.  You can hear Roma singing “I Thought of God”, and Lena singing “When He Comes” with me on YOUTUBE.

“Life’s Highway” is the name of the new TV show we started in 2009.  I will have new information soon as to the stations around the country where you can see it!  Email me to let me know what you think of the show, and where you are watching it.  I would love to hear about your adventures, and see some pictures too!

My good friend Leonard Dolce brought me a real nice load of firewood, and my neighbor, Steve Ayers started combining the soybeans around my house today.  Just reminders that Autumn is here!  My boys, Joel and Thomas and I split and stacked firewood while Theresa baked 3 Lemon Meringue pies.  One for her dad, one for our Pastors birthday, and one for us.  I love days like this.

Tomorrow, Theresa and I go back on the road.  I will be in concerts in Indiana all weekend.

For you hunters out there, I have been out 2 times with my bow so far.  I could have taken 3 different 8 points one evening while hunting on the ground but passed on all of them.  I’m trying to stay out of the woods and get all my fall work done first, so, when the hunting gets really good, I’ll be free to go. How about you? Any of you taken deer yet?  I did take a 4 X 5 Bull Elk with my bow on August 30 in Colorado. My friend Ric Browning also took a 5 X 5 the first day.  We had a great trip.

The horse in the picture with me is my new paint, named Scobee.  I just had her broke and trained by Tyler Lyon at Lyon’s Ranch in Marysville, Ohio.  I didn’t take her with us to Colorado this year, but next year she will go with us.

When at home or on the road, Theresa and I search out Mexican restaurants.  We have found some of the best in Texas and New Mexico.  Although, some times the salsa is so hot in the southwest we can’t hardly handle it.  Here is a picture of Theresa here close to home at one of our favorite places.  Theresa is a great cook, but it is still nice to just go out and eat when we are home.  Where are the best Mexican restaurants around the country?  Let us know and we will look them up when we are on our travels!  Theresa came in the office while I was writing this and she said “Every time you write a blog about me, it is always about food”.  What can I say?  If the shoe fits wear it!

My wife Theresa learned to make bread while on a 3 month mission trip to Canada when she was 17.  Cinnamon bread is her specialty.  She hadn’t made it for a while but decided to make some last week.  Theresa enjoys her time in the kitchen when we are not on the road, and I enjoy the good “stuff” she comes up with.  She took one of these loaves to Pastor Strachen at our church last Wednesday night.  He is from Canada, (we’ll excuse him for that) but he knows good bread when he sees it.  She is a wonderful cook.  Have you met my wife at my concerts or talked with her on the phone while booking a date?  Everyone loves Theresa!

Are you like me?  Just like to get away sometimes and think?  This has been a busy day for me tracking the progress of the projects I have going on right now.  Talking with Debbie at CRT about my upcoming DVD that will be going out to TV shows around the country, Jared and I have talked and text all day about the artwork for my new CD.  Not to mention several text to Rodney in Huntington about my lost sample DVD.  Actually though, I really enjoy this stuff.  It’s all a part of being an artist.  Being creative and seeing your work finally come together and you eventually will enjoy putting the first one in some ones hand.  Hopefully, the “first” of many!  

Theresa holds the newest member of the family!  Our new great-nephew CARTER was born yesterday.  Erica and Doyle are the proud parents.  Theresa’s brother Tim and sister-in-law Anita are first time grandparents. Carter makes the fifth generation.  

How do you succeed in Life?  One key word is preparation.  I’ve thought about this a lot in the last few days as I “prepare” for my upcoming Elk hunting trip to New Mexico with my friends.  Actually, I am far less prepared this year than I have ever been before.  There are different reasons for this.  The first one is I am just being lazy about it.  Second, I have been pre-occupied.  I have been so busy with recording, traveling, making videos, ect. that I have neglected my preparation for this trip.  Pictured here I am finishing a 4 mile ride on my horse “Tucker.”  If I fail to get an Elk on this trip it will probably be due to my lack of preparation.  It will be my fault.  

Be sure to not fail to “prepare” for eternity.  We can get too busy in everyday life to look ahead and realize we won’t live forever on this earth.  By excepting Jesus as our Savior we can make our preparation to go to Heaven.  When we do this, we have really begun to succeed.

Not Again!  I guess so.  Theresa has found her newest friends in the Woodshed today.  Does anyone out there need a good kitten?

Most people sit down and plan their vacation months ahead and go to some place far from home to “Get Away”.  That’s understandable but it isn’t what Theresa and I did this week.  We took a vacation right here at home in northern Ohio.  Pictured here is Theresa riding one of our horses named Tucker.  We have had this horse for four years and it was the first time she road him.  Usually one of my friends like Kevin Washington, Wes Washington, or Larry Liebhart rides Tucker while I ride my black horse Flicka.  We road on this particular day with Theresa’s cousin Nancy.  Had a great ride.  

We also filmed a music video for the song “Long Black Train” while home this weekend.  Would you like to see some video clips from the videos we have done this summer?