Not That Crazy

Months ago my friend Jodi and I planned a surprise trip to Nashville as a birthday present to her husband Andrew.  Sadly, Andrew found out about a month ago…but the trip itself was still a success!

Our core group of friends from church…

Steve and Kathryn Aylor

Andrew and Jodi Crawford

Threes Company…Cobb, Frush, and I

All of us planned a weekend trip to Nashville for New Years.  We’ve been counting down the days since the first of October and at times the anticipation was getting to be unbearable.

These friends are the ones that I do life with.  They are the ones that love me, encourage me, and make me laugh constantly.  I couldn’t wait to get away with them with no kids and just laugh and be together.

Frush drove up earlier in the week to spend the week with his brother.  The rest of us flew out on Thursday evening and met Frush at the Nashville airport later that night.

The weekend was filled with yummy food, laughs, inappropriate comments, laughs, country music, laughs, personality quirks, laughs, good conversations about life changes, and again…laughs!

We decided that this will have to be a yearly tradition for us to take a trip together.  This years theme was “Not That Crazy” which came from an extremely inappropriate comment made by Kathryn.  Next year’s theme will be “Givin’ It Up” which came from a sermon of Steve’s. 

All of us have a dream of doing ministry together and planting a church at some point.  So we made a goal that in 3 years when we came together for our annual GW trip that we would all come with places in mind for our first church plant!  We’ll see how well we stick to our goals!

This was one of the best New Year’s experiences I’ve had and it mainly had to do with the people I was with.  I kept saying, “This is the best trip!”  I can’t wait for the 2011 GW trip!

Top 10 Moments From Nashville

10. Steve getting yelled out over the loud speaker on the plane for having his iPhone on.

9. Frush singing the country song he wrote in Junior High

8. Me and Jodi spelling out 2011 with our butts to the passing cars

7. Cobb getting stuck in the hotel elevator all by herself

6. Roadtripping it back 11 hours from Nashville to Dallas

5. Cobb randomly spotting an African American midget whilst driving down Nashville roads and freaking out about it

4. Steve checking out a man and then later that night rubbing a random man’s jacket

3. Everyone piling in the rental Corolla and hearing the bottom scrape down the road cause we’re too heavy

2. Spotting the Gay Wiccan Ninja at the Houston airport

1. Kathryn telling Steve, “It won’t be that crazy…”