Secret Love

So our 7 yr old Conor comes home from school and Steph asks him about his day:

Steph: How was school today?

Conor: Fine, except kids kept chasing me and Anna-Kate all over the playground and wouldn't leave us alone. All because they wanted me to answer one question..."do I love Anna-Kate"

Steph: Then what happened?

Conor: We decided to keep our love a secret...at least until we get married.

Did you read that Conor is 7?!? SEVEN?!? I take no responsibility. Steph tried explaining that we love all our friends but we don't hug and kiss until we're 27 yrs old.

Actually, I can't help but think that Conor has become corrupted by Steph and all the girls talking non-stop about Twilight.

CMAs!!!

OK...Lance has been on me for weeks to get these posted...I am SO behind...but here it is!!! Me and my sister's trip to Nashville to see the CMAs!!! I'll probably have to do it in segments because I have a bagillion pictures!!

Here's me and the gal who made the whole trip possible--My sister, Carey!!!


The first night there in Nashville, they had concerts going on outside of the Somet Center where the awards show would be held the following night.

This here's Rodney Atkins...I love him :)


Yes...that is Kevin Costner...Mr. Dances-with-wolves in the flesh.

Yes. He has a band.
No. He probably shouldn't.
Stick to your day job pal....




Later we went to the original Grand Ole Oprey at the Ryman auditorium where we saw...

Lorrie Morgan...who I've always liked, but she seriously needs some counseling and a happy pill cuz all of her songs were seriously depressing and disturbing....

We also saw this guy, whose name escapes me at this moment...but he sings,"Love you!...love this town...love this ever livin' truck that keeps breakin' lovin down....." :)

And we saw several other artists...whose names also escape me...except Eli Young Band...I remember those guys :)



The next night was the CMAs!!!

...and here we are standing out by the red carpet where the limos/Chevy suburbans were dropping the stars off...it was cold ...and raining....it totally messed up my hair...
The cars would pull up here, then the peoples would be let out by these Military dudes (they thought that they were so cool...)

Here's Trace Adkins...but you can't tell because they have that big freaking light pointed right at the audience which made it almost impossible to take pictures...I think they did that on purpose..


Josh Turner


Darryl Worrley .He was one of the few that actually came over to greet his fans

Me and my sis from our seats

The stars trying to find their seats...Taylor Swift on the left in the silver dress, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettle on the right in the white dress

People were wearing some interseting outfits....take the electric horseman in the background for instance...Carey was trying to be inconspicuous so I could get a picture of him...

Our hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood

Martina McBride
Billy Ray and Miley...what is Miley's dress about?....dunno...
Alan Jackson
People magazine's sexiest man alive....I concur... :)
oh yeah, and Nicole Kidman...
Brad Paisley and Keith Urban showing off their mad guitar skills

I love Brad :)
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift again
and again...singing her "Love story" Song....Love that!
Love her!
Other people I love...Rascal Flatts
They win!!! Hooray!!!

Here are pictures of the after party we went to!

it was pretty, but there were no stars there like we were told there would be....
These drunk ladies were great entertainment to all as they "danced"

pretty flower arrangements...

food...but they kept running out of everything....open bar though....but still no stars...I guess that nice man out on the corner we bought the tickets from was mistaken... :)

To be continued...