Busy, Busy- Cam's B-day, Gaither concert, etc

Well, I promised to write about Cam's birthday outing but i've been BUSY!!! Friday of course was his b-day outing & that night his party. Saturday afternoon/evening/night I was gone to a Gaither Homecoming Concert at NKU, Sunday was church, Monday i was studying all day for a test, Tuesday-School (test), piano lesson, clinical prep homework, so TODAY i got out of clinicals at noon, actually earlier, and we're not supposed to get out till 3:30, so that was pretty incredible... so no more tests this week or next... I just love the "calm before the storm" before finals.... so i have a few days to relax a little and try to get caught up on the homework/quizzes I'm behind in.... So, i figured since I had extra time I'd blog... Happy April Fools Day, by the way...

So, Friday I went in to my sister, Jessicas house to get Cam... I got there a little before 11:20 becuase she had to leave to get Sedona from school at 11:30... Anyways, Brice got a "little" upset that I was taking Cam and not him.... he went out the front door with us (cuz Jess said he should it might help him be less upset) but we got to playing in the yard... he would run down the yard then i would run after him.... anyways he was NOT happy when his mommy took him he reached for me... then when I took Cam and went 2 my car he started crying (Later, I found out he had cried ALL the way to Sedona's school, about drove Jess crazy)... Anyways, I let Cam choose the restauraunt and he chose Chick-Fil-A... so we went there, got him a kids meal... he wanted to play in the little play area and i took him in there, but he's more quiet, intimidated by people like me and Jess and there was way too many kids in there, so he didn't play... so, on to Toys R Us.. we walked in circles around this one aisle for a while... he was leading the way.... eventually we looked thru a lot of the store... he chose some "Cars" cars that he didn't have..... then we went 2 Walmart... there was a single little toy gun laying on a shelf Tuesday when Jess and mom and the kids were in Walmart ... Well cam played with it and wanted it and thought mom was getting it for him for his bday and she wasn't so she told me be sure to go get it for him... he had to have that certain gun cuz it's like some kid in their neighborhood that they play withs gun... anyways we got that, I bought some candy (baby bottle pops) for the other 2 kids and headed back 2 Jess's house... Brice was SOOO happy to see me :) ... i wanted to take some pics of him and he saw my camera and headed straight for the fireplace...he thinks all pictures should be taken in front of the fireplace & a lot of times just goes sits there and wants pictures taken.... cam's party was Friday night, I'll write about it later, when/if I post pics (from mom's camera)...

Cam in my car
He found my sunglasses & proceeded to try them on

riding with bert & ernie at Toys R us

One of Brice's pics in front of the fireplace (with his baby bottle pop).. he's such a little cutie...

Me & Brice :)

Well, Saturday was the Gaither Homecoming concert at the Bank of Kentucky center at NKU, i went with a small group of people... it was the most INCREDIBLE experience... I wasn't sure how well i was going to like it with all the 1000's of people, I was thinking I won't get to meet the singer people... Anyway it was the most surreal experience to see Bill gaither in person, in the same room as me! Anyways the concert started out with Bill, Kevin Williams, Ben Speer, Ivan Parker, Gordon Mote, Janet Paschel, Russ Taff, Lynda Randle, (not necessarily in that order) THEN finally they called out the big dogs....lol.. Signature Sound came next and sang several songs then...... the crowd's favorite! Gaither vocal band!!! the lights were out and the guys were up there (but you couldn't really see who they were) and they just started the music and the crowd started SCREAMIN!!! GVB was definitely the crowds favorite, mainlly I think becuase of the new group... 2 of their singers left, so they revamped the group into a 5 member group (except sadly Mark Lowry wasn't there), and brought back Mark Lowry, David Phelps, and Michael english.. the 2 favs were David & Michael... After intermission, they kinda did the whole "friend" singing thing... GVB and Signature Sound sang together & the other people sang some all kinda mixed in.. A guy who used to play football for the Colts & now plays for the Bengals was there.. he's a Christian guy who likes working with kids in this spare time.. he's putting out a cd this year, he sang "Amazing grace" a capella...

It's hard to describe a Gaither concert, if you've never been to one, this was my first. But if you like Southern Gospel music they're incredible... there was 8,000 people there (according to Bill gaither) but the Spirit of God was there in such a real way... it was awesome 8000 people of different churches, different religions probably, but all they're banded together worshipping the same God... it was a awesome experience....

I got pics with some of the singers at intermission & afterwards... of course Bill & Gloria Gaither didn't ever come out... and I didn't see David Phelps either...

Oh, other cool thing about the concert... the people on stage would be singing then the screen would go to a video of the people who have passed away like George Youce, Jake Hess, etc singing that same song, just like they were there with us.. it was so sweet and sad... i'm glad they are keeping their legacy alive...another touching moment was when Ben Speer was singing and they had on one half of the screen a video of his dad singing with him....

Me & Ben Speer.. He's such a sweet guy... I just had to get a pic with him...one thing I appreciate about him is he doesn't change.. he doesn't 'modernize' to keep up with the times, he's the same, and still sings the good-ole-songs..

I was thinking about not gettin a pic with Russ Taff (above), but decided to. He sang a very moving song ... it talks about "i believe" that Jesus was born in the manger, taught in the temple, died on the cross, was buried in the tomb, but the clencher was that he didn't stay any of those places and isn't there now... It had a totally incredible part where Russ like did a recitation about how he could have been resurrected while he was on the cross and all... hard to describe but it was just a awesome song!!

Me & Ernie Haase, the guy over Signature Sound (my fav group)...i have a pic of me & ernie from the 1st concert i went to.... i guess almost 6 years ago... back when signature sound was a new group and not all that popular, so I wanted an updated pic, i didn't get pics with the other guys, cuz i just got pics with them, like a year ago.... Ernie does a great (and funny) Elvis impersonation....

This guy is one of my favs... Kevin Williams... he is a REALLY good guitar player and is just a FUNNY guy...makes the show really funny & entertaining...

This is my fav pic from the night... me & Michael English, one of the new old gaither vocal band members... :-)

Well, that's all for now... I need to go do some homework & laundry & my friend Lalia is coming over for supper tonight & to do some homework together so i should get working...Hope you've enjoyed this post....