Again, my blog is not going to really have any significant subject...just things I would like to share with people. (Mainly the ones that know me and my family personally!)
Which brings me to my newest story....
Sunday I went to my niece Nicole's 15th Birthday party which is a little ridiculous - she is getting too old and already talking about driving next year! In fact she is already planning on going with me to GMA week 2009 and getting in a lot of her driving hours on the way! Oh boy...where has the time gone?
Anyway, while at her party...someone mentioned something about my nephew Dean going to the ER for stitches AGAIN!!! (I had no idea because I was out of town last week!) You see, He has been to the ER numerous times in the past 9 months, with a nice amount of stitches from a dog bite, then about a month or so later...stitches again in his hand from diving for a stick that was stuck in the mud, then a concussion from being pushed into the wall while playing hockey, then this - and for some reason I feel like I'm leaving something out...but anyway here's the story and pictures!
So I guess Dean was in the locker room at school last week sometime and heard Michael Jackson - if any of you know Dean, he is the class clown...he is just always getting people to laugh anyway he can and so being a goof ball he was "moon-walking" to Michael Jackson...and while doing so I guess started to fall and grabbed onto an open locker that sent him to the ER to get stitches! Dean said it like this - "how cool is that I get stitches cause I was moon-walking"...and he also responded to is mother with - "I couldn't help it, they were playing Michael Jackson."
Then his cousins fiance decided to take out his stitches for him, since they were due out yesterday and they were falling out anyway...
We arrived in Nashville at approximately 1:20pm Saturday April 19th...being that two girls from Chicago were staying in a hotel for almost a full week - 8 hours from home - we packed enough for 2 months! The bellman wanted to know if we got kicked out of Chicago! We checked in, made our room "homie" and then needed to take a little walk to the Convention Center at the other end of the hotel to purchase concert and award tickets, where we just so happend to run into some really cool band called Sevenglory which we have come to know and love pretty well, it was nice to see some faces we knew so quickly!
That night was another showcase with Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, and Third Day. It was a great show....a couple of the our friends from Sevenglory were there too...so we got to chat with them for quite some time waiting for the show to finally start! Sevenglory were also playing later down the street and it turned out that they got on stage at the same time as Third Day did....SO we were doing a lot of running back and forth! It was worth it though! :)
Then I ran into another old friend who I was not expecting to see at all...Mike Payne, who plays with Matthew West right now. I met him years ago while he was playing in a band with some friends of mine. He actually remembered my face and my last name - which was to me completely impressive, I haven't talked to him in a long time! He was really cool about given me some people to talk to for jobs - hopefully in the near future! Then....we ran into my great friend Phil Conner again. We spent the remainder of the afternoon with Phil. These were by far the most succesful 3 hours of our trip. We ran - literally because Phil has some long legs - around Nashville learning how to do business. (If you can even call it business!?!?!) I personally did actually learn a lot...there was a ton of fun that went on and too much to share with the world for sure....but I will give you a quick list of some things we learned.
Also since Phil know a lot of people and has been around for awhile....he asked Tai Anderson (from Third Day) to get a picture with me. Thanks again Phil!
