“Maybe it`s the way your love swells beneath my skin
or maybe it`s because my senses are full again
maybe it`s because I can`t quite mark the source
or maybe I`m afraid to let it run it`s course… “

Come Sunday morning and there’s a houseful of people who all want to go to church. I was planning on hearing Trey teach Sunday school along with Laura, Kari and Mike. I heard Kari get up and get in the shower and I told myself that as soon as she got out Id get in. I hear her come back into the room but then I hear running water so I tell myself I’ll just rest my eyes till the water stop (my thought was Mike got in the shower before I could cause I didn’t say anything, Kari probably didn’t even know I was alive to the world yet). About an hour later Sarah wakes me up asking if I was going to Trey’s church at all. I heard her say to me “Its 2pm” and I said “In the afternoon?!” She thought I was talking in my sleep since I had not moved but I just didn’t hear her right (she really said its 9am). I got up and between Brandon, Jason, Sarah and I all getting ready, it wasn’t going to be possible for Jason and I to make it to Trey’s church on time. Reminded me of my days with one shower and three girls trying to get ready at the same time years ago when I lived downtown. It was nice since in the mix where boys who didn’t need the bathroom to blow dry their hair and put on make-up (at least not that I know of). So, instead of sneaking in the back of a small town Baptist church we followed Sarah and Brandon to Christ Community.

I have been to Christ Community Church this time last year, also on the day of the Andy P Christmas show. A whole heard of us where there, so it was kinda nice only the four of us where there, blending in the best we can. As we walked in we say Dan Haseltine and we all did a double take cause well, we recognized him, but couldn’t place where at first. Every now and then I really like churches that are more traditional than mine. It makes church more rich to me, not in a money since, but I guess the better word would be sacred. The hymns probably did that for me or the traditional in the Presbyterian church of baptizing babies (I had never seen that done before so I was interested in seeing it). I asked Brandon if babies male or female, always get to wear a dress. He said yes. This maybe another reason why I’m not reform, no son of mine will wear something like that. I enjoy Scotty Smith’s preaching more than others but it was tough to stay awake. I found myself staring down at my journal way too long at one point and my eyes closing. I started tapping my foot to keep my body awake, I wasn’t going to fall asleep in church, that’s just awful. It was comforting to find out that everyone was pretty tired as well as we left.

Couple of missed calls from Kari prompted me to call and see what the “Baptist” crew was up to. I got Mike to let me know they were at lunch at a Mexican place near “the” Starbucks and I told him we would be on our way. Christ Community is in Franklin which is a little bit of a drive, but not too long of a drive from Fairview but by the time we got there they had gone home. I guess Mike has missed the “were coming” part. The four of us ate Mexican food (yum yum) and then headed back to the Lampley household to met up with addition to the couple household guest, Josh, Rhonda and Scott. The girls (Laura, Kari, and Rhonda) were in a corner away from the TV. We talked for a bit while the boys played a good round of Halo 2. I didn’t try to kick Mike’s butt this time. That reminds me… I don’t know when it was, but I picked up Jason’s controller to the game without anyone knowing and just started shooting when I saw a person on my screen. I killed Mike, Halo 2 king on the first try. Twice. Funny how the next day when I mentioned it to Kari she knew nothing about it. It was my high moment of the weekend, let me tell you. We chatted and the boys played Xbox till us girls prettied up and drove to downtown Nashville for dinner with the rest of the gang.

I cant say enough nice things about our server at the Old Spaghetti Factory. With thirty some on people you’d think the service wouldn’t be that great but Chris was awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome. He kept the drinks comin’, brought food to the right people, kept things straight and even gave us some free deserts. It was fun to have all of us in the same place again, but its always hard to talk to everyone. So I tired by hoping tables again and talked a little bit with everyone. After a wonderful dinner and being grossed out by Josh trying to make a move by eating butter we walked down to the Ryman theater. This is where we all met Luke, who I probably would of passed if I didn’t heard his voice. There were awarded hugs all around. I had to laugh when Luke would greet someone then turn to me and just asked who he just hugged. The dynamics of the .net is always fun when we all are thrown together in “real life”.

We made it early to the Ryman, got tickets and ran into more folks we had yet to see during the weekend. Some of us made a quick run to the merch table where I purchased the long awaited Randall Goodgame cd, “War and Peace”. Then we all stood in the very warm lobby waiting for the doors to open. When they did let us in everyone poured in. We stood around talking till the show started and took our respective seats and waited to be amazed…