Clay Aiken Network

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The "Clay Aiken Network"

What is the "Clay Aiken Network"?

We are members of the "Clay Nation family" who believe that ...

"Together we C.A.N do anything!"

If you are a loving, caring, supportive person, please join our Message board!

We are here to support Clay and each other with a positive attitude and a loving heart!

(Click on the photo below to join our group.)

The "Clay Aiken Network" is also the brand new home of the Ohio Chapter for Alpha Beta

"Buckeye's C.A.N"

If you are from Ohio and would like to join our chapter and help support BAF

please e-mail Aron contactus@bubelaiken.org and let him know you would like to join the "Buckeye's CAN"

"Together the Ohio Buckeye's CAN do anything!"

My Favorite Links:

http://www.Clayaiken.com

http://cliquemerch.sparkart.com/clayonline/

Other links that are a MUST SEE:

(click on photos to go to the website)

This is some GREAT stuff! You can order right off of my website! ENJOY! I am also looking for some people to build my team all over the U.S. I would REALLY like to have a lot more Clay fans join my team! Then we can have Tastefully Simple/ CD release parties! So come and join my team!

These products WILL change your life! They have helped me to heal a lot faster after my surgery!There are A LOT of products on the market that are not doing you any good to help you get healthy, yet they charge a lot of money for them! I have a couple of tips for you.

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Usana has the BEST vitamins you can buy and they do EXACTLY what they say they will! They are 100% pure and they are amazing! if you want to go to an online presentation with me sometime then e-mail me at my Usana address at DougandJulie@usana.com or you can also e-mail me at JulieHorn@woh.rr.com

 You can read my story on the website if you would like!

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This is an OUTSTANDING book!

This is an OUTSTANDING (and short) book!

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This is a GREAT video to watch!

You CAN and WILL change your life to be the best life EVER just by following what these books tell you to do!

Photo:

This photo was taken in Cleveland Ohio in August of 2005. This is a time I will NEVER forget. As we all know, Clay does some pretty amazing things for people, and the concerts I went to in August of 2005 was yet another example of why Clay is so special to all of us. To start off, let me give you a little background as to what led up to these concerts. In February of 2004 Doug and I found out I had a tumor in my head that was attached to my balance nerve and that I had a VERY high chance of loosing half of my hearing and half of my face and possibly my life (however the loss of life was a smaller risk due to the fact that we caught the tumor soon enough) I was just devastated and for the next year Doug and I searched and searched for the right doctor. Doug and I had also been trying to start our own family and have a baby, and if we had lost another baby then I was going to have to have surgery to try to determine why we kept loosing them, but on December 22nd 2005 Doug and I had lost our 6th baby. ( I do have another story about this as well that has to do this Clay but I will tell you about that later) We don't have any kids and it is our dream to someday have children of our own. I have 2 beautiful little nephews (Anthony and Austin) and a brand new beautiful little niece (Abigail). They are like our children and we love them with all our hearts. But we would still like to be parents and raise our very own children and teach them the same values and love that our parents had taught us. I was very blessed with being raised in a home with LOTS of love and I am forever thankful to God for blessing me with such a wonderful family that just gets better and better every day of my life!

This is my Mom and Dad

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These are my nephews,

this is my new niece

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This is my sister and her husband (the mother and father of my beautiful little babies!)

and this is my brother and his wife,

(Jeffrey was in Iraq for a little over a year and got on ON my birthday!. THANK YOU GOD!...

This wife missy is just as cute as can be... she is VERY southern!

They currently live in Germany for the next few years. We all miss them dearly!)

After we found out about my tumor I told Doug "I want more than anything to get to hear Clay sing as many times as I can before I have to go though this brain surgery and possibly loose half of my hearing or worse!" and he said "Ok" and we got tickets to see Clay at two shows. Then one of my dearest "Clay friends" e-mailed me and she got us tickets to go to one more show! I was so excited I was about in tears! I don't know if she really knows how much that meant to me! Anyway, the first show we went to was at the Ohio State Fair, My friend who purchased tickets to the Cleveland show for us made me a post that said "Help save Doug from his 4th Clay concert (but since we had more shows to go to she made it so I could change the number on the poster) it had a picture of Doug on it with bars on his face. Here is the picture of the poster (this was at the second show we went to).....

Anyway, we are at the concert and I had a REALLY bad day before the show started! We drove down from Fremont to Columbus (about a 2 and a half hour drive) and about an hour into our drive I realized that I had forgotten some of the tickets because they were wrapped up in paper and I grabbed only some of them and not all of them! I was soooo sick to my stomach when I figured it out I was afraid to tell Doug. Then I finally told him and he turned around and we went to go get the tickets. He was very nice about it (bless his heart, I don't know how he kept from strangling me!) Then we get to Columbus and go to bed and get up the next morning to go to the Ohio State Fair and realize that the bag I had packed didn't have the "female items" in the bag that I needed! So we had to walk all the way to Kroger's on a VERY hot day and it took us at least 2 hours or more to walk there! Doug still kept his cool! I was just amazed! THEN we get back to the fairgrounds and I had some extra tickets to get rid of so we were going to give them to some people so the scalpers didn't cheat them... and guess what... that's right... I forgot them in my suit case which was back at the hotel in our truck! We called the hotel to come and pick us up and take us back to get the tickets and we once again headed back to the fair! At this time we had enough time to grab something to eat and head to the show. We gave our extra tickets to some kids that were standing outside that wanted their parents to go to the show. We had also given some other extra tickets to a really sweet lady who had always dreamed of going to a Clay concert but just couldn't go because she had to use every penny she had to take care of her family. So we gave her two tickets. One for her and one for her sister. I was so excited to see their faces the first time Clay came out on stage!

So we get into the concert and get to our seats and I am just SO excited to see their faces when Clay comes out. I look over when he comes out and she is just in tears! That just made my heart smile knowing we had helped to make someone's dream come true! Then as the show went on and the time came in the show where Clay turns the lights on and talks to the audience. As he is talking he looks our way and I thought "Oh he must see someone he is going to take up on stage, it couldn't be us" and I kept holding up my poster. Then sure enough he came off the stage and I thought "oh neat! he will be going right by us" and then he STOPPED! He took my poster and talked to us! Then Doug got to go on stage and dance with the singers on stage! It was just so amazing to me! After the show he had people calling him the "Car wash stud" and they would yell out "I LOVE YOU DOUG!" it was pretty funny! I was just totally amazed that I got to talk to Clay. I am not a Clay fan to where I droll over him or go crazy about what he wears or what his hair looks like. I have my husband to make me feel like that. I am a Clay fan for the person he is inside. My dream would be to be friends with Clay and have him and his family over for a cookout with my family and when we want to hang out with friends and enjoy a good movie or a ball game or something we just call him up and say "Hey do you guys want to do something". That is the kind of Clay fan I am. I am more of a "Clay friend". I adore the person he is, I love what he stands for, I love his family values. There are just so many things other than his looks that I adore Clay for. Anyway, so when we actually got to talk to him and Doug got to go back stage to meet him, I was so excited that Doug got to meet him and know who Clay really is since he always used to get upset with me for talking on the computer all the time instead of cleaning with all of my "Clay friends". But now that he has 'met' Clay he understands. He said he really is a genuine guy.

(Thank you Nick!)

The next show we went to was Toledo (that is the photo above) I was SO excited to go to an outdoor concert and to be at yet another show! I was just beside myself! I couldn't wait for it to start to hear him sing yet again!  We are at the show and having a GREAT time! Then the time came once again when he comes into the Audience I thought to myself "No way will he remember us or come to talk to us". I saw Nick standing up by the speakers and pointing in our direction and I thought "Oh good at least Clay will maybe come this way" Was I in for yet another shock! Clay came over to us and talk to us and to my surprise.. REMEMBERED OUR NAMES! He introduced us to the audience and told about our time in Columbus and I was just amazed.

THEN we went to see him in Cleveland thanks to a dear sweet friend of ours... and we had ok seats but not the best. I thought "At least we will get to see just ONE MORE show! And to my surprise yet again.... Clay had Nick come and get us... and that is where the picture at the top of the page came from. Clay had us both come on stage. I couldn't hear him at all while we were up their unless he took his ear plug out, but I did get a hug and he shook Doug's hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this is Doug and I today. :)

Anyway, I feel that I was being told that everything was going to be OK that miracles do happen and that I wouldn't be taking this journey alone. That God's is right there with me and he showed me this by bringing Clay to us as his little messenger. I know that is sounds really strange, but I do believe that everything in life happens for a reason and I have our time with Clay on DVD since we were aloud to video tape it so as I fought to recover from my brain surgery in May of 2006 I just thinking about the concert and how we actually got to meet Clay (I have never in my life ever come close to meeting anyone like that before!.. although my husband is a star in my eyes... he is my heart!) My husband would tell me as I was in the hospital and was fighting to get better so I could go home to remember the time we spent at those concerts and reminded me that miracles do happen and everything would be just fine! I have now been through 5 surgeries this year 4 to determine why we loose our babies and if we have a chance at having babies, then the other was my brain surgery. I have never given up hope that we will someday have the little one that we have always dreamed of having. I know God has a plan we just have to be patient and trust in God that it will happen. My family and my WONDERFUL Clay friends were there for me through a very difficult year in 2006 they came to see me at the hospital my Mom was my nurse at the Ohio State hospital (funny how we choose Ohio State, being that was the first place we got to meet Clay! Another sign ?? Who knows...)

Another story I will tell you about how God has used Clay to talk to me, I know this sounds really strange... but it honestly happened... I was driving home from a doctors visit after scheduling my appointment to have my surgeries to find out if we can have kids and my mind was just racing, I wasn't really paying attention to anything around me... I was thinking "what is going to happen, can we have kids, what if... what if... what about... etc.." all kinds of questions racing though my head... then suddenly I snapped out of it and right in front of my face on the side of a semi truck was a HUGE picture of a mother holding a baby over her shoulder. There was no other advertisements AT ALL on the truck other than the picture and at the very second that the truck caught my eye my CD changed to the next song and it started to play "I will carry you" which is why I choose to put it on the page of this site! It was at the EXACT time that the song played that I saw that truck! I knew God was trying to tell me something as I listened to the words to that song. I know he is going to be with us and I know he has a plan. I know that 2007 is GOING to be our year. I have a lot of hope in my heart and Clay and my family has helped to keep that hope there! I had almost lost it a while ago until we went to those shows in August of 2005! When I send anything to Clay I always tell him how he puts hope back in the hearts of those who  may have lost it... and I mean every word of that from the bottom of my heart! I hope SOMEDAY to meet with Clay face to face (with Doug and my family) and just go up to him and genuinely thank him for what he has done for me without all of the fans screaming or rushing him. But even if I never get to do that, I know God will thank him for me!

I would also like to send a BIG thank you to all of the WONDERFUL and amazing Clay fans who supported me though all of this and sent me lots of cards and gifts. I could never even begin to tell you how much your love and support means to me. I think the Clay fan base is without a doubt the best fan base group of people on the planet! You all have hearts of Gold and I thank God everyday for bringing you into my life!

So that is my story! I do have one other little story to tell you that has to do with the most wonderful husband on the planet... he isn't perfect.. but in my heart, and in my eyes.. he is perfect to me..................... When I had my surgery to figure out why we had been loosing babies (we will have lucky #7!!!) I had my surgery and my dear sweet husband had to work in Cleveland that day but he went to the hospital with me and my family to try to help keep me calm (I do not do well with surgery! I was so scared I couldn't stop shaking!) So we got up at 4am to head to the hospital and off I went to surgery. I woke up to see the beautiful faces of my family and to hear their voices! Doug waited till I woke up and then went into work. The next thing I remember I was in my room and my family came to see me (my nephews crawled up on the bed to hug me and tell me that they loved me.. those sweet little ones could heal anyone!) and then it was bed time, Doug finally made it back to the hospital around 1am and they didn't have anywhere for him to sleep! So I moved over the best I could and he crawled up into the hospital bed with me. The nurses all night kept bringing in other nurses to look at us and whisper.. we heard one of them say "I wish I had my camera, aren't they cute". Then at 4am Doug got up to use the restroom and of course since I heard him get up and go, I needed to also, but I was in to much pain to go by myself. The nurse came in and I told her I needed to go so Doug helped me up and was walking me to the bathroom and the nurse said "I can help her" Doug said "that is ok I got her" and he was trying to help me. So we get to the bathroom and the nurse says "oh wait I need the measuring cup". So she runs to get it before I can go and I look up and Doug and he is just staring strait at me, not blinking or anything. I said "Honey, what are doing..." he didn't say anything. I said "Why are you staring at me, I can't go potty while you stare at me. Then Suddenly he started to fall backwards and I thought he was teasing me for a second until I realized he didn't stop falling back! I said "OH MY GOSH!" and he hit the wall and slid down to the back wall then his face hit the back of the potty and his teeth clenched onto the back of it. He started twitching and I grabbed his head and tried to move his mouth off of the potty (thank God it was a hospital potty and they clean those all the time!) but his teeth were gripped so hard to that potty I could NOT get them off! I grabbed the "help" cord that was behind him and the nurse came in to see him on the floor. I was in tears as I tried to drop to the floor to help him, and I had forgotten I had stitches in my belly! so the nurse said "no, no, I got him! what happend" I said "I don't know, he is diabetic and he just fell, I don't know what is wrong" so they ran and got a thing to check his blood sugar and it was a little low but not low enough to cause him to pass out. They gave him all kinds of snacks to eat and checked on him frequently and he had to go see the dentist the next morning because he had broken off the back of all of his front teeth. It was like an accordion on the back of his teeth. (poor baby!) The next morning my doctor came in and said "So I hear we got a new patient last night" and I said "yes!" he said that due to a lack of sleep and just being exhausted and then the stress of seeing me in so much pain it just got to Doug and he passed out. So he is ok now and I was REALLY cautious when I had my brain surgery to make sure that that NEVER happened again. He was so sweet to want to help me even though he was TOTALLY exhausted! What a guy!

Ok, one more Doug story.... This past year one of my kitties that I have had for the last 17 years had passed away. She is a BEAUTIFUL kitty. My kitties are like my children. I just love them with all my heart! And I knew she was getting older and she wasn't doing well. Well Doug had to go out of town to Columbus to work over night. I got up the next morning and found that my little baby girl had passed away. I was just SO devastated that I could hardly talk to tell Doug. I called him and said "Abby is gone" and was just in tears. He talked to me a little then he had to go. Then he called about a half hour later and said "I am on my way" I just cried even harder I said "What! Really!" and he said 'yes, you need me there so I am coming home right now" I couldn't hardly get a word out I was crying so hard. He showed up 2 hours later after driving all that way... and he took me to my parents house (which is an hour from my house) to lay our little girl to rest. He even carved her name in the box and was very artistic about it. It was just so sweet. Then after all of that he drove me back home again and then had to go back to Columbus. So he basically drove 8 hours to be with me when our kitty passed away. It was just incredible! I am just so blessed! I also want to show you what I found right after my kitty had passed away....

P.K.AbbyMickeyGoofy&Baby KittyChelsea

This was the dish I had been hand feeding her tuna water out of with a little tuna to try to keep her strength up... You decide what you think of it. :) I know what I think it is. Another sign from God that my little girl went home to be with him. Here is a picture of her... she is SO beautiful. I know my little Abby wasn't alone when she passed away during the night. We had another kitty named Mickey that passed away a few years before Abby and I got him right after I had gotten her. Then right before I had gotten Abby I had a kitty (my first kitty) named P.K. (Pretty Kitty) and I know they were there with her. I miss all of my babies but I know they are still with me.

MORE TO COME LATER............