Happy Birthday America!

The 4th of July is probably my favorite holiday ever! For the past couple of years we have went to the Stadium of Fire in Provo. It is super fun! We have had really good luck. Last year was Miley Cyrus and this year was...

THE JONAS BROTHERS!!!

Ahh! We are totally Jo Bro Ho's at my house! We love them! They are so dang cute and so very talented! We decided to stay in Provo for the weekend so that we didn't have to drive back home after the long day.

On our 10 mile long trek from the car to the stadium we just happened to run into two of the Jonas Brothers themselves. Aren't they so handsome? They were so nice!

My parents were super excited to get their picture with Kevin and Joe as well! Especially my dad. He couldn't even contain it he was so excited!

Here we are waiting for the Jonas Brothers to start. Of course we had to have our Snowies while we waited to help cool us down.

Before the Jo Bros came out there were quite a few fun people that came out!

First was the ex-American Idol contestant David Osmond! He is so handsome! He was fun to see again.

Then Mr. Patriotic, Glenn Beck. He has hosted the Stadium of Fire the last few years. He does a very good job. My dad has a sort of obsession with him and while I am not quite as smitten with him as my dad is, he is kinda growing on me.

Then the 4 jets flew over and for some reason that always has such a patriotic feel to it.

Then the opening act... SheDaisy. They were pretty fun to watch. They sang fun songs that I knew so I liked it.

Then the moment we had all been waiting for...

Kevin, Joe, and Nick! Ahh!

They were even better than I was even expecting! They sang so many songs! And all good ones that we knew! Well I guess that they probably couldn't have picked a song that we don't know and love. We had so much fun listening to them and singing along. Everyone kept staring at us because we were dancing and singing at the top of our lungs. It was so fun!

Even mom and dad couldn't help but join in! But I should add that they sang an oldies song just for them. Sweet Caroline. I thought that was really cute of them to think of all the old people. And I was pretty glad to have proof that my dad really did love listening to them. He will try to act like he didn't but now we all know the truth!

After Jonas Brother performed there was a very patriotic moment. They told a story about how the same huge flag had been used for so many years and how it kept getting made stronger and different things about it. But then they said that it had seen enough days. It was time to retire it. So they were going to burn it. This is a picture of the soldiers feeding it into the fire machine.

And here it is burning. It was pretty cool to see.

And the moment that some people think is the best part part of the Stadium of Fire... The fireworks! While they were amazing, I would have to say that the Jonas Brothers were definitely the best part of the whole day. Maybe the whole year!

I would have to say that the weekend was a success! I had a blast! I am so glad that we were able to do this as a family. I am also very grateful that I live in this country. I am very grateful for our freedom and I am grateful to everyone that has made it possible for us to continue to be free. Many people are not as blessed as we are in the U.S. and I will try to always remember that. Happy Birthday America!

A Week With The Peterson Puppies!

Whenever the Peterson's go out of town they ask me to stay at their house to take care of their dogs and to house sit. Their house is beautiful and so it is fun to pretend that it is mine for a week! I never really loved Shitzu's... until these two. They are very sweet dogs, especially Lacy. She is so cute and cuddly and would always sleep until I was ready to get up. That could be my favorite part about her!

Meet the puppies!

Lacy...

and Boxer

Alyssa and I thought that we should do photo shoot of me and the puppies. I think that they turned out pretty great if I do say so myself.

Alyssa even had the brilliant idea to use the fireplace as a background. The dogs did so great in all the photos. Don't we look like a sweet family?

I had a good time taking care of Lacy and Boxer and hope that they call me again the next time that they go out of town!

I Guess I Love Kelly

So this is kind of old but I couldn't just not post about it... I feel like I should be Kelly Clarkson's biggest fan! I have been to see her so many times! It's kind of funny to me that I have been to see her as much as I have. Here is a look back at all of my Kelly memories...

The first time that I went to see her was when I was a senior in high school. As I am sure that a lot of you know.. Alyssa is a HUGE Clay Aiken fan. She got tickets to go to the joint concert of Clay and Kelly for her birthday and asked me to go with her. Then someone else gave her two more tickets for her birthday so she invited Steph and Sarah to come along as well. I had no idea that it would be as much fun as it was! I loved it! They didn't have too many of their own songs out at this point so they sang a lot of fun popular songs. It was great!

We decided that Sarah and Alyssa were the biggest fans out of the 4 of us so they took the closer seats. So Steph and I sat together. It is funny to see how much we've changed. I kind of want my long hair back!

The next time that I went to Kelly was when she came with Reba back in November I think. I had always wanted to go to Reba because she is the Queen of country and one of my personal favorites. For some reason I just didn't get around to buying tickets. But thank goodness I have a super lucky concert buddy! Bailley put her name in the drawing at Gandolfo's to try and win tickets and she did! She won two tickets and asked me to go with her! I was so excited! And then when the day came Alyssa and my mom couldn't handle not being included. So they bought tickets and came with us. It was so fun!

We had to do the usual decorate the car before the concert. We obviously think that Reba is Fancy!

We went to Red Robin before the concert. Yum! One of our favorites!

We snuck over to where my mom and Lyss were sitting and hoped that no one would come for the seats. But... they did. We were there long enough to be able to get a picture though! By the way... we do not know those random cowboy people behind us.

Here are the two performing together! They did so great!

Here are Bailley and I at the concert! I loved finally being able to see Reba live! It was great! And it was also of course great to see Kelly again! I was so glad that Bailley asked me to go with her!

Now finally the most recent concert!

Kayla, Kristen, Me, Alyssa

This was the first time I was going to the concert just to see Kelly! Krissy asked Lyss and I to buy tickets with her. And since neither of us can turn down a concert... we obviously went! And it was really fun. We got there like 45 minutes late and were really worried that we had missed some of the concert. Boy were we wrong! There was some stupid UVU idol contest thing that was so gay. They said that the concert started at 6:30 but Kelly didn't even go on until after 8:00. And it was the only time that it wasn't raining! While we waited we spent a combined total of $21 on one order of Nachos and two Dippin' Dots. That was probably their plan. Boo. But I do love Dippin' Dots so it was ok!

We did get to see this way sweet rainbow though! And I learned something. I always thought it was so cool when I could see two rainbows. Well Alyssa informed me that there are always two rainbows! Who knew?

Here we are trying to keep the rain off of us. I bought some really cute ponchos but I left them in the trunk. Oops! Good thing that we all had on jackets with hoods!

I have had so much fun at all of the Kelly concerts. It is fun to look back at all of the pictures and remember all of the fun that we had. Thanks everyone for all of the fun!

What happens in Vegas...

Last weekend Alyssa, Kiele, and I went on a road trip to Vegas! It was so great! We left on Thursday night and stayed in St. George. We had planned on leaving at 8:30 and somehow we didn't get on the road until 10! But we were so excited to get on the road that it didn't even matter!

Here we are looking oh so beautiful Friday morning while we are eating breakfast at the world famous, or maybe just Utah famous, Bear Paw Cafe in St. George. Then Vegas here we come!

We went to eat at the Grand Luxe restaurant at the Palazzo Hotel on Friday night. I didn't love my food but I just made Alyssa share hers with me. Everything else was so yummy! Thanks Jenn for the suggestion!

We went to Phantom on Friday night. While it wasn't nearly as entertaining as Wicked, it was still really great! The Phantom's voice was absolutely amazing!

Kiele was really feeling Phantom-ish after the show and kept hiding behind things making us take pictures. This was one of the better pictures.

After Phantom it was off to see the lights of Vegas, the water show at the Bellagio, and Captain Jack Sparrow!

Saturday we woke up really early, around noon, and spent the day at the pool. It got me so excited for summer!

Before we left Steph told me she read about a restaurant called Serendipity that looked really cute and was famous for their frozen hot chocolate. So we decided to try it. It was THEE cutest place I had ever seen! Everything was pink and orange and it had like an old fashioned soda bar inside. It was so fun. And so delicious. I got this Asian Chicken Salad and it was probably the best salad I have ever eaten. Everything else looked really good too but this was the best.

Here are Lyss and I with the giant frozen hot chocolate!

After dinner we went to Mystere and I am pretty sure this was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! They are so strong it is unbelievable. I could have watched for hours. Now I want to go back and see every single show that Cirque du Soleil puts on. I couldn't have loved it anymore! Ha ha.

We decided that we wanted to watch the pirate show at Treasure Island. We all remembered it being pretty cool when we were little so we thought we'd stop and watch it. We waited 40 minutes for the next show to start and it was so lame! It was pretty much sluts on parade. We watched for about 3 minutes and decided not to waste anymore of our time. But we did take some pretty great pictures of ourselves while we were waiting. This is just one of the many!

After watching the really great Treasure Island show we went back to Serendipity to try their dessert! It was a little embarrassing when the hostess recognized us. Oh well. On the menu there was a sundae that cost $1,000. We were debating on getting a couple of those but ended up choosing something else.

Just posting this picture makes me want to go back for more of their dessert! We got a deep fried oreo sundae, the frozen hot chocolate, and a strawberry cheesecake sundae. I could not have loved them anymore! They were without a doubt the best dessert I have ever had!

Kiele and I were obviously very excited about our deep fried oreos.

And this is us after we have eaten all that we possibly could of the dessert. We did pretty good. We were so so full though. Miserably full in fact.

Sadly all good things come to an end. Vegas was great! We really need to go again soon! Thanks girls for the fun trip!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Last week was my dad's 46th birthday! Oh my gosh he is an old man! Only 4 more years until he is 50. Then he will really be old.

Here he is with his birthday cake. Fruit pizza! Mmmm!

I am very grateful for him and all that he does for me. I couldn't ask for a better dad. Thanks for everything Dad! I love you and Happy Birthday!

Fearless!

Taylor Swift was amazing! It felt like we had been waiting forever to see her and she did not disappoint! She was so dang cute and did amazing! I had heard that she was not good live and so I wasn't expecting her to sound all that great. But she did awesome! She was very entertaining to watch!

We had to make t-shirts to show Taylor how much we loved her! Steph, my mom, and I worked really hard to make sure that everyone had a real cute t-shirt.

We had to decorate Pearl so that everyone driving down the road would know how much we love taylor! Unfortunately we got caught in a random hail storm about 5 minutes after we left and it washed most of our had work off of the windows.

We practiced out concert skills the whole way to the concert!

When we got to the Delta Center we learned that Kellie Pickler was sick and wasn't going to perform for us. We were all really heartbroken. I love Kellie and was excited for her. But Gloriana did a pretty good job getting us pumped for Taylor. Morgan especially liked them.

Here we are waiting for Taylor to come out. We're really excited!

I loved every second of the concert! But one of the best parts...

All the sudden we look right below us and this is what we see... What is going on? Remember this is literally right below us.

Ahh! Taylor is standing at the portal right directly below singing one of our favorite songs, Hey Stephen! I could not believe that she was within probably 6 feet of us! And she hugged practically every single person on the way down to the floor. It was adorable. Usually singers do something fun like this to start the concert but she was very creative and did it randomly in the middle of the concert. It was great!

This was the look on Bailley and Morgan's faces the whole time. It was fun watching them.

Apparently the girls were pretty into the song Should've said no.

Here's the whole group! We loved every second of it!

Concerts always drain us! Everyone in this picture is so exhausted except for Bailley. I guess she wasn't even tired at all!

We all woke right up though when we were this close to Taylor! I'm pretty sure that Alyssa almost got ran over by the bus while we were chasing after it. BreAnn got a thumbs up from Taylor and Lynsie got one of the Taylor guitar picks that they threw out the window. It was so worth standing there and getting yelled at by the security officer for standing in the wrong spot on the sidewalk.

Taylor was so great! I had a blast. Thanks for all the great memories everyone! I can't wait for our next concert!