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So this might be the first actual serious post we’ve done on here… well it’s sort of serious I guess. We just got home from the great Nashvegas where we led for an Acquire the Fire event there. It was an awesome weekend as usual. We had alot of friends come up with us or visit us while we were in town. Our friend Miriam from Atlanta came up and sang with us and for once, we were able to kind of share a taste of what it is we do when we disappear from home all the time. As for normal life back home, a bunch of us went to see an awesome artist by the name of Dave Barnes who was in town tonight. It’s always so much fun to be able to go to a club somewhere and hear some great music after you’ve had the big ol’ ROCK SHOW screaming in your face all weekend. Anyways, all of this to say he is def one of our faves and you should all go check out his music and what he does… maybe… buy a CD???? (pinky to lip) So for now, I’m lying in bed with Jack (Jack the dog! What were you thinking??? Wow…) about to get some shut eye before I hit the studio tomorrow. All in all… just a good weekend. Let’s hear about you guys’ weekends… Family? Travel? Relaxing? Dave Barnes shows? Peace! Christian
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April 14th, 2008 at 4:46 am
My weekend was boring. I was bored out of my mind because ATF is this weekend and last weekend I was at a concert last weekend and amazing things happened to me that happened to nobody else..It’s good that there is Church on Sunday because it keeps me sane. I’m glad yours was great! Have fun in Denver while I’m in Baltimore.
Ida
April 14th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Thank You! You deleted some of the comments on Sprayberry’s BBQ! I really appreciate that!!!!!!!
Ida
April 14th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
My paw paw turned 90 years old this saturday! woah I know! So I went to my aunts and we ate BBQ and other random foods in celebration… because everyone knows you can’t celebrate without food!
AND Pastor Simon from Kenya came and talked to our youth group on Sunday! Which was amazing! So that is what I did and Im glad you guys had a great weekend too! ♥
April 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
My weekend was a blur of soccer! My sister had a game Friday (forty-five minutes of rush hour traffic away!), then one Saturday (we had to wait thirty minutes for the lightening to stop, and then watch her play in rain!), and then Sunday. The only bright spot was church, where I kept nursery for the second Sunday in a row and missed out on my dad’s preaching (surprise, surprise, ’cause normally I complain about it–I think it’s a PK thing!).
And guess what’s next week?! A whole soccer tournament! Bet yall’ve never had THAT much soccer!
Yall’s weekend sounds a whole lot better than mine, and I wish I could be at another ATF.
Love and blessings, ~Lauren
April 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Awwwww thanks for asking….Friday I went to a suprise birthday party for my friend Whitney. She turned 18!! Thats not as old as Jordans Paw Paw but its close!! hahaha
Speaking of Jordan, on Saturday we went shopping and she proceded to leave all her stuff everywhere!!no lie.. we had to back track almost every time we went to a store because she realized that she had left something!! fun right?? After all that exercise we were feeling parched and thought a good venti double chocolate frappichio from Starbucks would be great!!It was untill she left it at Vicki Vicki Hush Hush (Victoria’s Secret)!!!
On Sunday I did everything that Jordan said, except she forgot to mention we went to softball practice!! It too, was very fun!! Jordan then proceded to hit 2 of the 15 balls that the coach pitched to her….I really have no room to talk since I only hit 3 of them. Our first game is on Saturday, feel free to come if you want.
~~~Have a good week!!
April 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Let me just say I didn’t leave that much! I only left 2 things and Jordan Grover picked up the drink….. and proceeded to throw it away….hehe. So i guess she learned from my mistakes and decided to look around before we left…in the event that someone may leave something! But that rarely ever happens with responsible people like us!
haha
April 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
this is for Lauren!
my dad is a youth pastor and hardly ever gets to preach to the whole congregation. are you a youth pastors or senior pastor’s kid.
later :):)
April 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Well i went to Dairy Queen about 7 times!
April 14th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
that sounds fun Dillie
April 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
This weekend I went with my band to Dallas for a contest where we got the highest ranking as well as ‘Outstanding Band of the Day’! On Saturday, we went to Six Flags Over Texas and had a blast! If any of yall go there, you have to ride on Titan and Mr. Freeze. So my weekend was great until I had to come back and do homework. That part was not fun.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
well last weekend i babysat for 3 kids and they were all under 3 years! Then while i was there a storm hit and the tornado siren went off! talk about stressfull! Me a little skiny girl trying to hall all 3 kids down to the basement! AHH CRAZYNESS!!!
April 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
well, my weekend included going to dancing lessons on friday night and then hightailing it over to my friends surprise birthday party. on saturday sleeping in instead of going to work(yay!) then i had a soccer game in the wind and the rain which was pretty much not all that fun. after that i just kind of laid around the house trying to think of something to do, but failed. on sunday, i went to chuch which was fun then i had another soccer game. then of course just after i’d gotten out of the shower my friend called to see if i wanted to go play soccer at the park with her and i did. so that’s pretty much all i did this weekend!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Ida…for the love. please stop posting 8 million times on here. It’s a blog, not a chat room
April 16th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
hey if u go on my myspace myspace.com/unhindered fan or youtuube and search unhindered says hello u can watch the video wit me and the band <3
April 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
ummm. is that Joesph Patrick Martin Barrett???? just wondering…..
April 16th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Hey Ida!
My Dad’s a senior pastor in NC. He preaches almost every Sunday and my sister and I tease him about it being bad! I guess in reality, I really do enjoy his sermons.
Post back!
Love and blessings, ~Lauren
April 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Well mine has been great!
We went to South Flordia from texas and did a nonstop (other than for restroom breaks) drive that was 17 or 18 hours! It was great! Then we got there and had fun for a few days! Now we are in North Florida and we will be here till this weekend when we will drive back home to Texas…
I LOVE FLORIDA!!!!! It is the BEST state in the USA! lol
And I have not even hit the beach yet… I am going to tomorrow cause we are staying at grandparents and it is only four blocks from the beach!!! I can’t wait. I am going to try to get my self up around 6:30 am to go get sunrise pictures but we will see. lol
Any way yeah my week has been great!
ttyl, BigBro
April 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I was at that Dave Barnes concert in Atlanta too! It was AMAZING!! I was pretty sure I saw you guys but wasn’t completely sure.
P.S. To JR I met you at Water’s Edge a couple of weeks ago when you played. I was one of the greeters at the door.
P.P.S Are you guys leading worship at 12 Stone any time soon?
Anyway thanks for all you guy do! Y’all are awesome!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
my weekends, hmm, normally the same thing every time, lets see, so friday all day I am like TGIF, then saturday rolls around, and I normally get on look up unhindered sites, and go on other stuff, and e-mail ppl, then I go walking for a couple hours with my friend, and then sunday is church (I love it, couldnt live without it) and then sundays are normally Family day, but it’s not a whole family no more..{RIP;; Dad 12-14-07}
April 17th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Hmmm… lets see… I spent all off Friday night trying to de-stress after spending homeroom falling asleep and doing other homework and then getting caught.
Saturday I woke up really late and then spent all day sketching and writing songs and stories. Then I worked on a website I’m making on weebly.com (its not done yet) and went to church on Sunday.
I always have tons of fun at Sunday School cuz our church is so small only one other girl comes regularly in Jr. High. So we were sitting around lighting candles and bending paperclips. Its awesome, I love Sundays.
Then I spent all Monday night dancing at dance practise. Its really tiring because after a lazy weekend its so hard to go to dance for 3 hours.
I love weekends!!!
April 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Hey Nat What is the address to the website you are making?… I also make websites so it would be cool to see what you are working on.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Well you guys sound like you have been having more fun than I have. I’ve either been working 10+ hours a day or taking care of my brother(he just had knee surgery). I wish I could get out of my small town I live in and go to shows and hang out places like you guys, but I can’t. Also I wanted to thank you for your guys great music. I have been able to share it with my friends and help them with their journey to the lord. Your music shows them, they can be christian and still listen to their favorite music. So thank you for everything you guys you have done.
Erica Kay
April 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
the weekend you posted this.. I was at Passion: Atlanta with Louie, Francis Chan, Crowder, Tomlin, and Hall. it was the most amazing thing ever pretty much.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:34 am
HERE WAS OUR LASTT WEEKENDD IN FUNN TIMESS…
Jaycee got– asked out by the guy she has liked FOREVER… she earned some moneyy… and she got a mango smoothie spilled all over her and her favorite pair of pants… and in her Ipod while she was listening to yalls song “WE SHINE”… she fell asleep 3 hours before we had to wake up for the Walk To Cure Diabetes walk-a-thon she && priss organized for our entire school to participate && raise well over 200$$…
Priscilla got– to see her bf after 2 weeks straight not seeing him… got invited to play paintball (but wont go)… drank 3 bottles of coke in one night… got extremely tired && passed out on the couch… 5 HOURS before we had to wake up for the Walk-a-thon her && jaycee organized by themselves for our whole school….
THAT WAS OUR FUNN WEEKENDD…
<3
love yalll
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J && P.
oh yeah… we are THAT cool yall!
April 25th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
umm…lets see…i woke up Saturday at 5 to go to my volleyball tournament…we got 3rd….not close enough to first but i ges its ok..and then came Sunday…CHURCH!!! YAY!!! It was grand…God showed me alot of things that i would LOVE telling u about!! It was amazing and i dont think that it has ever been that intense during one church service than it was that day…it was almost as intense as ATF!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
soooo I went to the ATF in Nashville and it was AWASOM!!!! i loved the excersise pat made us do the first night. It was cool but the drama was a little confuzzeling for me and the big blast were really loud and they scared me(the drama was called the Bema). we were on the floor and it was so cool to see everything. U guys are awasom and I loved all the songs we sang, now we sing them in praise and worship almost every wed,. at youth group. sooo thanks god bless and PEACE
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
my last weekend was freakin amazing i went to ATF in tampa it was amazing your band is sooooooo FREAKIN amazing i love your band this weekend i am doing nothing sat but going to church sun i cant wait i have to get up at 6:00 am man i am going to all the services because are youth is doing the service and my youth band is (trying) to do 2 of your songs there not that bad but your band is soooo freakinn better lol stay great love ya
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 am
Weekends are fun…
Saturdays I spend doing the Sunday Newsletter lay-out and editing to get them ready for the printing the next morning. When I am done with it, I just do anything. My sister Je and 2 lil bros Joseph and Josh (Yeah, our names all start with J… even mom and dad) just hang-out, watch tv, chill out. I read books. I looooove books. I sometimes do some clay-making or update my blogs online.
Then Sundays, I go to church. Sometimes, I teach Sunday school for toddlers. Sometimes, we hold youth leaders meeting after the service. But often times, I just go home straight. Then sleep. Then we start our family prayer, devotion and fellowship around 7pm.
For Heather, I am really so sorry learning about your dad. Don’t you worry. God is our Father who will never leave us nor forsake us. I remember one pastor at church said, “if it doesn’t make sense, then God is moving. He is moving in ways you cannot comprehend. Because He thinks differently. Wisely.” It’s really cool… And remember, all things work together for good for those who love God and for those called according to His purpose… all for those who love Him.
For Miranda, You know what… The BEMA is my favourite. It made so much impact in me that whenever I feel down or I become faithless when something goes wrong, I think of The Bema so I can correct my ways before it’s too late. Because time is ticking away…..
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Johanna,
time is Ticking away. i saw the bema twice. NYC and in Baltimore. I missed half of it in Baltimore because I was talking to teenmania interns… I almost got in trouble by my dad, aka youth pastor…. my favorite one is the one where they are in the guy’s brain. it is so ccol! it was last years skit.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:34 am
When you said this is serious post i was like, “oh my gosh someone died. plz dont be pat plz plz plz! (not that i dont love the rest of u guys.) then i read it all and i was like. ” oh ya!”
May 10th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Uhh, to BigBro who asked what my website was, its not online yet, I’m still workin’ on it. I’ll say on this post when I’ve got it up. Ya wanna know what’s hilarious? When I clicked on ur name it said ur from texas and guess what? I’m from North Dakota! Thats all the way across the country! That’s so cool!
I know that was on April 17 but I didn’t check this post again until just now…