Emily had just taken one pregnancy test and it said, +.  But it was hard to tell so, I went to class and she went to buy a digital pregnancy test.  Nothing like getting a text message in the middle of class that reads, “pregnant” followed by your gonna be a dad.  So if you have not figured it out yet, we are having a baby.  To be named by the highest bidder on an Ebay auction to come later (kidding).  It has been a very humbling experience to come to grips with the fact that God has blessed us with a child.  This is a huge blessing as Emily and I begin to build the starting nine for a Baseball team.  Thanks for all the encouraging words and prayers.

This blog is dedicated to Rose Booth and Lydia Ring… here’s to a new blog post.

Chris Lofton’s senior year was the best in Tennessee Men’s basketball history, and quietly it was Lofton’s hardest.  Lofton revealed today he had testicular cancer, and beat it during his senior season.  Chris Low of ESPN wrote a fantastic article about the battle Lofton faced, and beat.

Until you hear a truly Bible centered sermon, you have not heard preaching.  How’s that Freddy T.

I have been to many a concert in my day, but none compared to the concert I attended last night.  Emily told me that Alison Krauss was coming to the Louisville and she really wanted to go, so I figured I would look into getting some tickets to give her as a birthday present.  I have never really listened to Alison Krauss so I was not too excited, in till I found out that she had made a CD with the greatest lead singer of arguably the greatest rock band of all time, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.  Getting these tickets proved harder then I thought, they had just gone on sale on tickermaster two days before, and had sold out in 30 mins.  So they decided to have a second show the next night.  Those also sold out in 30 mins and I did not get tickets to either.  Thankfully I was able to purchase some from a ticket broker (side note: Emily is covered for the next year on presents!) for the Saturday night show.  The show featured all the songs from the CD they did together as well as a few by Alison Krauss and Led Zeppelin.  Here is a picture I took on my phone from our seats, as well as an article from the Louisville Courier Journal, “Palace concert fit for royalty,” by Jeffrey Lee Puckett.

As their impeccable band swung into “Rich Woman” with an easy flourish, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss took the stage Saturday night at the Louisville Palace to the first of several standing ovations.

Plant, still the god king of rock ‘n’ roll, strolled out with a quietly confident swagger, his hair in that tangle of curls so familiar to Led Zeppelin fans. Krauss looked like she was headed to a prom in her pink dress, maybe one with “Stairway to Heaven” as its theme.

 And when they began singing, it was clear they still felt the chemistry so evident on their “Raising Sand” album, his well-traveled yowl blending perfectly with her pristine voice. There were a few goose bumps, and not the last.

This was the first night of the “Raising Sand” tour but both the singers and the band sounded fully warmed up. Krauss didn’t hit a bad note all night, almost flaunting her perfect pitch, and the band, led by T Bone Burnett, was nearly flawless. Plant was Plant, and that was plenty.

Krauss and Plant performed nearly all of “Raising Sand,” a handful of Led Zeppelin classics and a couple of songs associated with Krauss’ solo career. They also threw in a George Jones cover just because they could.

As expected, the Zeppelin songs drew a huge response — one guy screamed “Led Zeppelin rules!” barely five minutes into the show — but they weren’t the highlights (although “Black Dog,” with the world’s spookiest banjo, was pretty amazing).

“Fortune Teller” was better, with drummer Jay Bellerose exploding the song from the inside out, and Krauss broke every heart in the place with “Through the Morning, Through the Night.” “Killing the Blues” and “Trampled Rose” were also contenders.

But the most unexpected song might have also been the night’s finest. Krauss, backed by Plant, Buddy Miller and Stuart Duncan, soared through an a capella version of “Down to the River to Pray,” from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” that was so beautiful it sucked the air out of the room.

Everyone who went back for Sunday’s second sold-out show should be so lucky.