It was a whirlwind of a weekend, but, a really good one. Josh and I left Saturday morning to head up to Nashville. I coordinated the Christian Festival Association National Talent Search presented by Word Records. All the winners from the different Christian music festivals around the country came to Nashville to compete for a development deal with Word Records. Josh helps me with this every year handling the technical aspect of the competition. Anyway, we left on Saturday and drove up. We always try to make time to head to our favorite restaurant in Franklin called Dotson's. So we made it there in time for lunch and just thoroughly enjoyed it. After that we were able to go and see our friends Aaron and Sarah who were having a baby shower. They are having a little girl come October. It was so nice to see them and spend a few minutes with them. It seems like it had been forever. After that we headed to the Cool Springs Mall and walked around. Of course, we walked out of there with a cute little shirt for Lacey. Josh says it looks like something her mommy would wear. So you know it has to be cute! :-) Later on we went and had dinner with Uncle Bob and Aunt Laurie from Eone music (Echoing Angels Record Label). I had heard all about Uncle Bob and had seen him on some of their videos but never had the chance to meet him. What an amazing couple they are. We had such a nice time chit chatting and eating good food. I'm so thankful that he is on team Echoing Angels. He truly has the vision that the guys do for their ministry. So it made me even more excited to see what happens with the single and new CD coming out.

One thing about Josh and I is that every once in awhile we seem to not have good luck with hotels. For instance, on our wedding night we stayed at this really nice and fancy hotel in downtown Atlanta called The Georgian Terrace. At about 3 am someone who had a little too much to drink at a reception downstairs decided that he needed to pull the fire alarm. That's just an example of our luck. And this weekend....well...was no exception. We stayed at a hotel we usually stay at in Nashville called The Hotel Indigo. It's a really nice hotel that we really like. This weekend our hotel room happened to be near the elevator. And from about midnight until 4 am we didn't sleep that much because groups of intoxicated people kept getting off of the elevator whooping and hollering. This happened several times an hour. Then about 3:30 am a girl named Kelly decided that the proper place to have an argument with someone on the phone was in the hallway. Finally someone came out hollering her name to come into the room. Yeah, so needless to say we didn't sleep much that night and had to be up early and at The Rutledge for the competition on Sunday morning. Needless to say, I was a bit sleepy that morning.

Regardless of the lack of sleep, we had a really good time at the competition. It was amazing to see all the amazing talent from all of the USA. And it was so much fun meeting so many people. They were all just so great to work with. The best part was being able to work with my husband. It's awesome to be able to work on a project together and see it come to fruition. We had eleven bands/artists that came to the competition. Our overall winner was a guy named Jeremiah Garcia from New York. He reminded me a little bit of Jason Mraz meets Jonny Diaz. He was very talented and won the developmental deal with Word Records. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do together in the next year. So be on the lookout. I just love coordinating things like this. Someday maybe I can do this type of thing all the time as a job. That would be cool.

After the competition we drove home and got here about 9:45 last night. I was exhausted and went straight to bed because it was back to reality today and had to be at work at 6 am. So no rest for the weary. But, I wouldn't have traded this weekend for all the sleep in the world. It really was an amazing weekend!