Quarantined: Not So Much

I finally get to go back to work! Not that I haven't been working these past 11 weeks. But now I get to go back to work in person! This makes me happy because some of my co-workers have been able to actually work and serve this whole time. Yet for me, because of my situation, I haven't been able to. 

Now, this changes a few things: yes, I get to go back to working in person. Yes, I get to go back to serving our youth. But this also brings added stress and hazards to me. I have to keep my family safe while working.

So what does this have to do with fangirling? Well, it's May. Usually, May is full of craziness and school stuff and all kinds of things. In fact, on Friday, my kids finished school for the year. Granted, it wasn't the way we intended when the school year started, but it happened. Forgive the bare feet, but really, where were we going?

And they're not the only ones! So many kids I know are graduating, including my favorite teenager!

This just makes me cry! I remember standing next to this little boy. He was two! Where in the world did the time go????? He is not supposed to be graduating high school yet!!!!! But I knew back in August he was starting his senior year so it was BOUND to happen... But I SERIOUSLY just stopped feeling weird about this because he posted it two weeks ago. (See this post.) Gee, thanks Mama for posting this!

And then of course, after I go to bed Sunday night, what does Brian do: drop pics! Dang night owl! Awesome black and white ones. It's eerie seeing the first one because those freeways are usually packed! But his black and whites are always just STUNNING!

Quarantined: Too Much Love! Is that a Thing?

What a weekend! First thing's first, let's talk CMT Music 12 Pack Countdown. BAYLEE WAS NUMBER 4!!!!!! OMG! We are moving this boy up the chart!!!! Woohoo! And while we're talking about, GO VOTE!

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Number 4 y’all! Let’s keep it up! #cmt12packcountdown

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 23, 2020 at 5:52pm PDT

And then on Saturday, Brian decides to BLESS us with a video of Bay being Bay, his gorgeous wife, and a shirtless pic of him!

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#weekending in Littrellville.... 🤣 #iloveyoubaby thank you for the deliciousness..... 🤪

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 23, 2020 at 1:23pm PDT

Can life get better????

Why, yes! Yes it can! Saturday afternoon I got word of Bay doing a Live Instagram. I was bummed because it was right over dinner time for me. Well, apparently, they were having technical difficulties. Because when this live DID happen on Sunday, Bay was having all kinds of sound drops and blurriness! But it continued! Yeah, it was a short one, maybe 15 minutes but he sang "Some Guys" which is definitely growing on me the more he performs it! The first shot is from another Instagram user and then the rest are my screenshots. *sigh* God I needed this!

Quarantined: Baylee and the Frick & Frack Show

Sunday afternoon, I'm sitting at home and I get a reminder on my phone about an event coming up. The Frick & Frack Show was hosting a fan chat via Zoom. Ok, lemme explain something about me and Zoom. For some reason, it hates me. My kids can Zoom easily! Me, I ALWAYS have either CPU usage problems and have to have ONLY Zoom up or my network hates me and I freeze! This song seems to be my life right about now:

So, I jump on, keep myself on mute because, well, my household is CRAZY! Two kids, two dogs, and my mom. Yeah, I'm lucky to get through an hour. Anyway, it was a BLAST! These two guys are awesome! You should check them out because now their podcast is JUST ABOUT everywhere. And come on, they are GUYS who ALSO are BSB FANS! Dang, why can't I find a guy like this?

So what did I say that Matthew couldn't read and Caleb just didn't read and about got me kicked out? I told them that they just needed to drop "The One" because Brian can't do it anymore! It's the truth though. The guys do amazing at covering him, but he struggles too much and I don't like seeing him struggle or just drop. What they don't realize is that I have been a Brian fan since the beginning and I will support him no matter what. He could've just stopped, but he is such a fighter!

So as I'm getting off and getting ready for dinner, I get the ominous text from my BFF. Literally, we can speak in two words: "INSTA NOW!" and we know EXACTLY what that means! It essentially means that one of our fav fam is posting on Instagram. So I hop over there and just about immediately start bawling because THIS is what I see:

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High School Grad sounds pretty good.Glad I got to spend it with you boys❤️ Thanks for sharing this special moment with me👊🏼 Can’t wait to see what the future holds. #highschoolgraduate

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 17, 2020 at 4:42pm PDT

Okay, yeah. I'm just done. Let me just go crawl in a corner and cry now!

And to make it even better, there's this on Gibson's Facebook Page:

So that was my Sunday... How was yours?

Quarantined: Littrell Love

It's been kinda sad in quarantine for me, a Brian fan. Yeah, the AJ fans have had their Looped calls. Howie's done his virtual "Howie Eatz." Nick is like family/baby obsessed right now. Kev, well, he's never been very social. And Brian, well, he's just intermittent. When he's away from the fam, he's like a social butterfly. When he's home, he's like family-focused. Okay, I get it. I'm fine with it. It doesn't bother me, much. So when he does post, I relish it!

But before we talk about Brian, let's talk about his son. Man, the things he does to just make my little heart quiver. The first thing he does is drop the dressed up pic:

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#bayleelittrell2024 @king_bigwillard for VP!!!😂😂😂

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 13, 2020 at 2:18pm PDT

 And then he has to go and remind us that summer is nearly here. In the words of Douglas Adams, "Where's your towel?"

 

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Throwing it back to last summer with 20% off our "We Run This Beach" towels, get them while they're in stock! store.bayleelittrell.com 🔗

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 14, 2020 at 5:00pm PDT

So let's talk Dad here. Who's got a quarantine project going? I know I do! And guess what, Brian has this young man whom he can "supervise" for said quarantine projects!

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@bayleelittrell_music and @aidanb1226 working hard.... I’m just supervising 😂 mulching in Quarantine.....

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 14, 2020 at 2:58pm PDT

And well, we can't forget that Baylee's "Boxes -615" is in the running for CMT's Music Twelve Pack countdown! And sometimes he even reminds us of this fact!

So, um, Go vote!

It's not much, but I'll take what I can get. 

Quarantined: #AloneTogether with Baylee Littrell

Brian and the fam had been pretty quiet on social media this week. I was getting restless! But then Thursday night, they go all "food post" on me. First Leighanne with what we'll call "The Before." I guess they took the "leftover challenge." Nope. Not one for me! And Baylee legitimately looks terrified to eat his mother's cooking!

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What’s in your fridge?😂 #leftoverchallenge tag me!

A post shared by Leighanne (@leighanne_littrell) on May 7, 2020 at 6:42pm PDT

But apparently, it wasn't bad because Brian gave us "The After" shot:

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Hated it!!!! Can’t you tell.... wow is it possible to have leftovers for leftover? That was amazing..... #leftoverchallenge 🤪

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 7, 2020 at 7:02pm PDT

And yeah, there were a couple of posts before that too, but all in all, Brian had been silent. And his post before this one was just a text post!

And both of these were literally right before I went to bed. And after I did go to bed, Bay drops this sweet thing on me:

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Here is a clip of me with the boys and my tiny microphone 15 years ago.Thank you for finding this @yahtzee27 😂time goes by too fast...

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 7, 2020 at 11:02pm PDT

This is like the sweetest little thing! THIS is how I see Baylee in my head. Two years old. Mop of blonde curls. Sometimes it's hard to see him as the almost-adult he is today. He's grown up WAY TOO FAST!

Okay, that was what I woke up to on Friday morning. Then came Friday afternoon.

I was just finishing work on Friday and getting back onto Facebook. See, I close all my socials so I can actually work. (Yes, I do most of the time keep my music on.) So as I was doing this, scrolling through Facebook, I see this post pop up from both Brian and Baylee. Apparently, Baylee did a vid for CMT! Oh, this made my heart happy. And I was even happier that it was my THREE FAVORITE SONGS from his album: "Come Kiss Me," "Boxes," and "Nobody Tells Ya." *sigh* It literally just made my Friday!


So, there I sat on a Friday afternoon, enjoying my favorite Boys. What a great way to go into the weekend!

Quarantined: Baylee is Country AF

On Friday, Baylee took over CountryaAFRadio and gave his top 10 songs that made him the artist he is today. So are you ready? I guarantee, some of these, you know if you've followed him AT ALL over the past 2 years.

So #1 was Randy Travis's "Forever and Ever, Amen."

This is not surprising as he's met him TWICE within the past year!

The first was at the Michael W. Smith event a year ago. And the second was when Baylee did CMA fest in November!

Ok, #2 wasn't surprising either. It was Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings." Why wasn't it surprising? This:

#3 was Brad Paisley's "She's Everything." And #4, I'm glad, I was outside with the kids for. It was Tim McGraw's "Don't Take the Girl." This song makes me bawl like a baby! Again, not a surprise, though, because of this:

#5 was "One Good Reason" by Hunter Hayes. #6 was "Burn Out" by Midland. #7 was probably the oldest one on his list. It was "White Sport Coat" by Marty Robbins. "Homemade" by Jake Owen was next. Followed by another non-surprise, of "Signed, Sober You" by Hardy. He's talked about that one a few times. And his list couldn't be complete without the great George Strait. His pick: "Troubadour." And then, to finish his time, he had to drop his own song!

And speaking of this song, it's in the Top 12 again this week. I just don't know where it fell because everyone is keeping it quiet and I don't have cable!

Quarantined: Baylee's Boxes

Ok, couple things about this song, "Boxes." One, I LOVE IT!!!!! Two, there are TWO versions of it. Three, there are two videos for it, one for each version. And four, well, there is no four. It's just a dang cute song and so perfect for Baylee.

Moving on. When they released the "615" version, (yes, Baylee will teach you your area codes: 770 = Atlanta, 615 = Nashville), they released a video with it. It's a bunch of stuff from the tour and is just super cute.

So, when the family released the video, they sent it to CMT. CMT picked it up and put it into the rotation. They've been stalking CMT waiting for it to air. (If I had CMT, I'd be doing it too!) So while they were prepping for their ET interview (See this post.), it aired! Brian, being the good dad who KNOWS how important THIS moment is, recorded it for us! (See it here.)

And being it's now in rotation AND getting airtime, that means he qualifies for the weekly fan-favorite countdown: CMT 12 Pack. And guess what? HE MADE IT ON IT last Friday at NUMBER 6! (Again, Dad's got us on this one, but the whole fam put on Instagram too! See it here.) And what's even better, YOU CAN GO VOTE FOR HIM!!!!! The best thing, you can vote multiple times!!!! So, what are you still doing reading this? Go VOTE!

Quarantined: Cooking with the Littrells, Part 2

I guess when you're famous, if you do an Instagram video, you're newsworthy. OK, so it was Entertainment tonight. But still.

So Brian dropped on his Facebook Page the time-lapse of them preparing for this interview. The interview itself was like two and a half minutes. I missed it live, (are you noticing a pattern here with this family and their news appearances?) but it went up almost instantly. It was very cute. They were making Swedish meatballs (yet something else I won't eat), but it was still cute! And, hey, at least Brian put on a shirt!

And speaking of food I won't eat... Remember when Baylee made an omelette and I said I might want one? Well, this happened:

Yes, I made myself an omelette. It was my first time and it actually came out! Now, here's the problem: I can't stand eggs! (It was a bad experience with them while I was pregnant with my daughter.) Anyway, that's saying something if this boy got me to make myself an omelette! Ok, no more though. Because afterward, it just didn't sit well with me!

One of my favorite parts of his making an omelette is he is so like the rest of us. Did you catch him accidentally turning on the wrong burner??? OMG, how many times have I done that! But yeah, no more eggs for me. I'll make all the scrambled eggs for my kids, but no more for me, even if Baylee comes back with the BEST egg dish ever!

Quarantined: Baylee Live at Risky Jam

Thursday night Baylee participated in a live show on Instagram. He's done this "venue" before. It's called Whiskey Jam. It's primarily for up and comers in Nashville. Except, since all in-person performances are pretty much canceled right now (except for the Backstreet Boys because they have yet to cancel the remainder of their DNA World Tour), most artists are going to doing live performances on the Internet.

Baylee previously did one and it was amazing! Yeah, partly because his daddy is like Mister Prepared. And partly because his Mama had this idea before anyone else started doing live shows on social media. But also because Baylee is amazing!

Anyway, his daddy had him overprepared, which was great! He wound up doing 3 songs, telling his stories and having like 300+ viewers! He had viewers from all over the world! It was great! The suckiest thing is that on Instagram, you can't turn the comments off so sadly, they were going all over Alex! Yes, Alex is apparently, Baylee's go-to right now. But we'll throw some love his way as well! He knows all of Bay's songs!

The kinda cool thing is that they TOTALLY prepared for this. Lighting was all darkish and all just like you'd get in a show. Momma was recording. And it totally wasn't just Bay sitting with earbuds in. (Yeah, Daddy got the goods out to may Bay look good!) I snagged a couple of screenshots and am wondering if one of those parental units was recording, because, I someone had to have recorded it! I just haven't found it yet.

So what did he sing? A couple we haven't heard in a live yet, so that was nice. And our absolute favorite!

Easily

Dirt & Gold

Boxes

And then Bay went and dropped this photo on Instagram. It is such a good photo of him! It makes him look so grown up!

Quarantined: Birthday Edition!

Yesterday was my birthday! For anyone wondering, I'm the same age as Nick!

I woke up to so much fangirl love it was incredible!

The first was a drawing by my friend, Kimm!

Then it was a graphic from my friend, Jill!

And Heather wrote me a story! Read it here!

I got a ton of love from work! Including a personalized graphic from my work birthday twin!

And we can't forget the Boys! They started the month by sending me this:

And then I got a text message today too!

And then to just put the icing on my cake, there was a post by Brian where Baylee was singing. *sigh* Find it on his Facebook Page.

And of course, he drops an AWESOME pic last night. Okay, not shirtless, because apparently when he gets the good weather (last week), my weather sucks and then we trade right now! 😂

Think I just found my next cross-stitch! Sigh. Love the fangirl birthday love I got!

Quarantined: Easter Pics Overload!

So, in yesterday's post, I talked about how Brian is posting like every day right now! I am totally loving that. The rest of his family is posting intermittently. Except for Easter Sunday. They went ALL OUT! Now there is something I love about this family: they are a bunch of goofballs! And I'm not just talking about Brian. His son is JUST LIKE him! And Leighanne, well, she puts up with her boys being goofy boys and then sometimes, joins in!

Anyway, on Easter Sunday, I wasn't expecting a post. Then, I get this:

Yeah, they are being goofy! I LOVE it!

Baylee posted the silliest video! (Go to Brian's Facebook page to see it!)

Then Baylee posted the following:

Then Leighanne got in on it, and her photos were by far, THE BEST!

 This one could literally be a card!

 The look on her face is just classic!

 Brian got the bunny filter! How come he makes a cute bunny?

And this one is my absolute fav! It's like she said "Silly Shot!" and both her boys went "We'll show her!" And just smiled all cute.

And then what does Brian do? Drop food pics! He ALWAYS does this RIGHT after I eat. The other day it was chocolate pie right after I got home from the grocery store.

I love this family so much! They are just adorable. They make me smile all the time!

Oh, and the proper response to a #HeIsRisen hashtag is #HeIsRisenIndeed. (Sorry, that's the Methodist in me coming out!)