I'm baaaaaaaack!, I can't wait to tell you guys all about! Options

[4everclay]

Well, I'm FINALLY home. Sorry I wasn't able to give you guys a review last night, but I have a good reason that yo guys will not believe. If you thought you couldn't love Clay anymore, you'll change your mind real quick when you read what I have to say. Be prepared, this is going to be one LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG review. I'll post it when I have it all typed up. I just wanted everyone to know that we are home. IT WAS THE BEST TIME OF OUR LIVES!

[xLilpinkDevilx]

OMG! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

aH, WELCOME BACK!!

Aaah, sooooooo exciting!! KNEW you'd come abit late, doesn't matter though. I'm sooooooooo happy for you and your family. There is already a pic of John and Clay on stage online, and John looks adorable (soooo HAPPY his wish came true) and everything! Can't wait for the review. I'm sure it will be worth reading it all.

This post has been edited by xLilpinkDevilx: Aug 1st 2004, 12:48 AM

[I'm in love with clay]

WELCOME BACK!!! I'm so happy for you and your family!!!!!! I can't wait to read the review!!!!

[forever_clayton]

Omg, I way too excited! I am so happy and proud of little John! I can't wait to hear all about it

[~♥ Yvonne ♥~]

[SilverGirl2]

Welcome back, hun! Omg, I can't wait to read your review. I'm so happy John got his wish! He's so adorable. Can't wait to hear about it.

[Sandy]

Oh my gosh, I'm sooo excited!! Welcome Back Lisaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to hear your review. Don't keep us in suspense too long huh?

[4everclay]

PART 1 (July 30)

I'm appologizing in advance for a lousy report. I'm just SO excited right now that I can't think straight. And let me just tell you, that the people that work with Clay are ABSOLUTELY the nicest people you would ever want to meet. I cannot get over their generosity towards us.

Now I don't think I have to tell you guys that the concert was AWESOME! It was really the first time we had all heard Clay sing live. If you guys remember me saying that when we were at GMA, we could not hear Clay at all. I got goosebumps when I heard You Were There live. It was absolutely amazing. You could hear a pin drop it was so quiet.

OK, well. They had a limo come and pick us up at my house at 4pm on Fri. John had a little bit of a problem on the way down there, not being able to breath. We gave him oxygen, and within minuts he was back to his normal, happy self. Anyway, they took us to a resturant before going to the concert. As we were finishing up dinner, the limo driver said that the meet & greet was going to be earlier than expected. Oh no! So we rush out of there and end up making it on time. Jerome made sure we were in the back of the line and that John would be able to spend some time with him. So the others get through with their meet & greet and Clay starts walking towards us!!!! He goes up to John and says, "haven't I met you before? I met you at GMA!" He remembered John!!! He also remembered my mom. Then he turns to me and says, "I don't think we've met before." I was like yes, we've met but you don't remember me. He then goes, "Oh, I'm sorry Lisa!" Anyway, he turns to John and puts his hands out to pick him up. John got a little shy (which is very rare for him!). So Clay asks what song he wants to sing and John says TITN. Clay asks him if he wants to sing a little for him then and John shakes his head yes. So Clay goes "sing it for me." It was so cute the way he said it! He talked a bit and got a 2 pics taken with him and I got one with him too! So later we were seated for the concert and Nick (Clay's best friend that's touring with him) comes up to my mom and pulls her off to the side.

As many of you know, John was brought up on stage. Clay said his outfit was good but his hair needed a little something. lol So they took John backstage and had John (Clay's hairstylist) did his hair. He stayed back there for the rest of the concert so I had no idea what his hair looked like. So when I saw John and Clay come out from under the stage I just about jumped put of my skin b/c I was so excited! Eeeeeekkkkk! I was just watching them in awe. I cannot believe his wish was finally coming true! While they were singing, I could see Clay motioning to John to get ready and pull the mic off the stand. SO CUTE! When Clay took John's hand to go down the steps, I just about lost it. They looked SO adorable! I had to laugh at one part. While Clay was coming down the steps with John, John saw himself on the jumbotron and was trying to watch himself! Typical kid! LOL! I also loved the way Clay let John finish the song! SO CUTE! After the song, being the ham he is, goes up to some ladies in first row and shakes their hand. Clay then says something about becoming a ladies man and stealing the show from Clay! Haha! Clay made that high pitched laugh of his when he said it. It didn't sink in for me until Solitaire and that's when I lost it and started crying. John came back to us with a HUGE smile on his face.

I'm sorry, I'm skipping a lot of little details, I'll add them when I have the chance.

When the concert was over, there were SO many people that came up to John and took pictures and even autographs! He loved every bit of the attention too. I met so many amazing clay fans. You guys were all awesome! There was one point where John had to go to the bathroom, so my dad took him and all of a sudden, people say there's Clay (meaning John) and security came running up and when they saw it was only John, they started laughing! It was like a mob scene with John. He's now a celebrity and my little star.

Now during TITN, they were taping it for us so we could have it. So we're waiting around after the concert to recieve the tape and Mary, who works with Clay and is SUCH a sweetheart, comes out and tells us that there was miscommunication and that they weren't able to film it. She even started crying. I felt SO bad for her. So she goes off to somewhere then comes back. OK, THIS IS THE PART THAT MAKES CLAY AN EVEN MORE AMAZING PERSON. I thought I couln't love Clay anymore than what I had, but I was sure wrong. So Mary comes up to us and says that Clay feels really bad about the video and wants to put us up at the hotel and pay for everything and then film it again during the sound check today AND pay for tickets to tonight's concert. My jaw dropped open. My mom felt EXTRREMELY bad and felt she would be selfish if she decided to stay and have Clay pay for it. They eventually talked my mom into staying. We got to the hotel room and I COULD NOT sleep if my life depended on it. I was just too excited! John ended up falling asleep first from all the excitement of the day while my mom and I stayed up hours of the night just talking about what had happened. Again, I'm really sorry for leaving things out. I'll add them in later. END OF PART ONE.

This post has been edited by 4everclay: Aug 1st 2004, 2:13 AM

[takenbyaiken87]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!

Lisa, seriously I'm flipping out here. I haven't even read your review!

You're not going to believe it if I told you. Yesterday I was wondering where the heck you were, waiting for you to come home and tell me everything, but you never did. I started thinking about the show and John and everything I read, wondering if he got to actually see it last night. To make a long story short I conjured up this entire scenario of where you were and especially what wonderful things happened after I read John was in the audience again tonight. If I read your review and see I'm completely dead on I'm going to freak out.....

Ok I'm going to read now.............I can't even explain this girl............

[xLilpinkDevilx]

Aaaw, it's OK hun It's gorgeous! I'm soooooo happy for you and your family, great recap though you are going to post more!

John is now a celebrity/ladies man!!!!

I was like " " throughout reading the whole thing! Ya, im such a LOSER!

This is getting me all teary-eyed....

[takenbyaiken87]

Lisa, seriously, oh my god............

I can't even explain this to you right now. I'm shaking and crying and acting loonie...........

This is going to sound like crazy talk. I wrote the exact words to terter4aiken no more than an hour ago. I can't believe it. I'm going to say it anyways.

Yesterday, after I stayed up all night waiting for pics of Clay and John, I started thinking about the show and what I read from the cell cert. They said he went back to get his hair done and get all ready to come out for TITN. I wondered if he got to see any of the show at all, and if he didn't, even with the totally amazing experience that he had, that it wasn't quite the same.

Ok, do you ever find yourself conjuring up crazy ideas in your head, like realistic day dreams about OMC? I've often done it before, imagining M&G's and things like that. I started 'daydreaming' I guess you could say, yesterday.

I thought of how incredible it would be if somehow you and your family got the chance to see the second show in Atlantic City. I thought of amazing, and believeable, it would be, if Clay himself arranged it all. Once I had that thought in my mind I had my heart set on how amazing that would be if it came true for you guys. I prayed that it would.

Then, I waited and waited for you to come back to tell me everything. When you didn't reply to my PMs or post anything I wondered where you were. Then I read the cell cert from tonight, as saw 'John from last night's show is in the audience again' and nearly fell out of my chair. I couldn't believe it.

I told Terri (terter4aiken) all about my little wish for you guys on MSN. Then I read the detail about John being there and freaked out. She freaked out too, and we freaked out together. I've been waiting since then for you to come home.

I can't believe it.............

[Sandy]

Oh my goodness... Lisaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WoW!!

I'm so happy for you. And I'm happiest for your little brother. I bet he's on

[ClayMakesMeMelt]

Awwww that is so awesome Lisa!! That's the sweetest thing!! I'm so happy for y'all!!

[4everclay]

[SilverGirl2]

Omg, Lisa, that is too awesome! I'm so happy for John. I will surely be praying for him, as well as your family.

[takenbyaiken87]

[forever_clayton]

One word: WOW! Your family definitely deserves this great opportunity and I'm so glad John had his wish granted to him before he goes in for surgery We're living vicariously through you girl! Can't wait for part 2

And as for Clay, I don't think I can love him more than I already do

[4everclay]

Thank you so much you guys. You are all amazing!

[takenbyaiken87]

From RHT:

[4everclay]

Thank you so much Nat! Are you psychic or something? Are you reading my thoughts right now?! LOL!