U2!!

The Stage at the Concert. It was a 360 degree stage with moving bridges and crazy lights.

On May 21st, Ryan and I went to Denver to the U2 concert. Just a little background on this. We bought the tickets to that concert 2 years ago!! We were still living in Utah when we bought them. It was so worth the wait. It was a great concert. They played for about 2 hours and never took a break. Not bad for some old guys. I was happy that they sang a lot of their older stuff because if they would have sang new stuff, I would have been in trouble because I really don't know any of their newer songs. We stayed overnight in Denver. We were both so excited to sleep in the next morning (it was like heaven). I actually woke up at 7:30 and made myself go back to sleep. How sad. We were so grateful that grandma was in Wellington with the kids. They had a blast too.

Parking around the Mile High Stadium was nuts. There are all these No Parking zones or No Parking unless you have a certain permit. Anyway, while we were walking from our parking place, we saw a lot of tow trucks out. Here is a picture of two tow trucks , one has 4 cars on it. Can you imagine coming home from a fun evening and having your car gone. Not fun.

Denver's own, The Fray, opened for U2. It was fun to hear them in front of their home crowd. When we first bought our tickets, Lenny Kravitz was suppose to open. I was pretty giddy about that because I have a secret rock star crush on Lenny. Well, it's not much of a secret when your husband is aware of said secret crush. I am not sure what it is about Lenny that makes me giddy, but I like him, fro and all. Anyway, The Fray was good. I only recognized a couple of their songs, but again, the whole hometown crowd thing was fun.

My camera stinks, but I was able to get a few good shots. I love crossing things off the bucket list.

Kenny

My mother-in-law, Shelley, celebrated her 60th birthday in August. We thought that turning 60 was a pretty big deal and tried to find her the perfect gift. We knew that she loves Kenny Rogers and that he was going to be in concert in Loveland in October. So, we bought her tickets so that her and Howard could have a nice night out and enjoy Kenny. Well, the concert was tonight and Shelley was soooo excited, she has been counting down the days. She called me this afternoon to tell me that Howard was sick and couldn't go to the concert and asked me if I would go with her. I love spending time with Shelley, so of course I said "yes". Plus, my mom listened to Kenny Rogers when I was a kid, so I knew most of his songs.

We had a wonderful time. Kenny has a great voice for an old guy. :) I was one of the youngest audience members. It was kind of nice to look around and feel young again. I am sorry that Howard isn't feeling well and hopes he feels better soon, but I am glad that I got to have a night out with my MIL.

35 Years Ago Today........

"The Way We Were" by Barbara Streisand was the #1 song on the Billboard Chart and around noon (9:00 Utah time), I entered the world as the second child/daughter of a family that has grown to 9 children. Last night, as I was staring at the ceiling pondering the reality of being only 5 years from 40, I thought about all the things that have happened in my lifetime. Like the death of disco and the birth of the moonwalk. Live Aid. Neon clothing. Jean jackets with KISS written on the back in black marker. Side ponytails. Leg warmers. Spandex. Break dancing. Friendship bracelets. Mork and Mindy. I have seen the jelly shoes, Transformers and Cabbage Patch Kids come into existence, leave for a few years and then make a comeback. I watched the Berlin Wall come down on TV!! (I was in an American History class last year and some of the students in the class had never heard of the Berlin Wall!) I remember when we got our first VCR, I am sure my parents paid about $1500 for it. *SIGH* How can I possibly be 35 years old? In my mind, some days, I am still a teenager, just a little wiser and married with 2 children now. Anyway, I tried to get some great pictures from when I was a kid, but that didn't work out so well. So, here are some others.

It is also Ground Hog Day. So, let's get some business out of the way. No, Mom and Dad, I did not see my shadow this morning. Mainly because it takes at least a half an hour every morning until my eyes are completely opened. Hopefully, the Ground Hog didn't see his shadow either, because I am ready for spring.

Cookie Confession

Today, I have been finishing up some baking and again I am reminded that for some reason, I cannot bake cookies. I can bake a pie, a cake , cupcakes and a great apple crisp, but give me a cookie recipe and I will mess it up. I even mess up the pre-made dough that you buy at the store. It's a tough thing to be so bad at cookies when you live with two boys who LOVE cookies and ask for them often. They are both good sports (especially Ryan) and will eat them. I will never make cookies for my neighbors at Christmas because what if the Relief Society President found out my cookie secret. Anyway, this morning, Braxton and I made sugar cookies. Half of them are not edible, but we had fun with the cookie cutters and decorating the cookies. Someday when Braxton decides to get married, I am going to make sure she is a good cookie maker so that my grandchildren do not have to suffer like their father and grandfather did.

We love sprinkles!!

Masterpiece Braxton enjoying the pudding from the chocolate pie I made.

Better Late Than Never

My Christmas tree is FINALLY up and is now in the process of being decorated. I am sooo late this year. I usually have it up the day after Thanksgiving, but because of the flu and school, I just haven't had much motivation or time. It snowed today, so I just couldn't resist decorating the tree.

Open Rebellion

We went to the mall yesterday and I was surprised, but very excited, to see Santa there. Ryan thinks me taking Braxton to talk to Santa before Thanksgiving is open rebellion. Oh, Ryan is not the Grinch, he just loves Thanksgiving and thinks that I would rather skip Thanksgiving and start celebrating Christmas on November 1st. This is sort of true. I like Thanksgiving too, but I think in Canada we do it right. We celebrate it in October and then can concentrate on Christmas right after Halloween. So, every year Ryan makes me promise that we will not listen to Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. Of course when he is not home Christmas music is blasting through my speakers. My wonderful mother-in-law gave me her satellite radio, there are 6 stations that play nothing but Christmas music!!! I guess I will humor Ryan for a few more days and only speak of my excitement for eating lots of turkey and watching football this coming Thursday.

Maybe I Do Have a Green Thumb Afterall?!?!?!?!?

Don' t you just love it when things that you plant actually grow? This is the first year that it has actually happened to me :) .