Chill'n with Celebs!

So last week me and Alex went down to Vegas to go to an Air Supply concert. Now I know what you're thinking. "Air Supply? The guys who sing like every eighties love song" Yep, that's the one. (If you don't know who they are, have you ever heard "I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you... or that song Celine Dion sing "cause I'm your lady and you are my man..." well they wrote it and she made is famous. If you don't recognize that then just turn on any soft rock station and you'll hear them.) Now I have to explain. Alex's brother is Air Supply's sound guy and travels all over the world with them. Very cool. He gave us tickets and a chance to meet the band and since we never get out without the kids we dropped the two little one's off at my sister's house (in Vegas) and went to the show. Honestly we were the youngest ones there. There were 50 year old groupies who follow these guys around everywhere! They even want to know everything about Jeremy (Alex's brother) just because he is part of their crew. Crazy!

Anyway we got there and went back stage before the show started to meet the band. Russel Hitchcock, who is the main singer and about as tall as me was the only one we met then. Graham Russell the guitarist, song writer and singer was busy. We went right into the green room and in a very British accent Russel shakes my hand and says, "give us a cheek kiss love" Okay. So in true Holly Wood fashion I kissed his cheek as he kissed mine. Woo woo. Then we went back out and watched the show. I was surprised at how good a couple of old guys could jam out to love songs and more surprised at how many songs I knew. I even found myself singing along with the 40 and 50 somethings.

So after the show Jeremy took us back stage again to meet the rest of the band. He left us back stage while he ran to go do something. The band was in the green room and we were just chill'n back stage when suddenly one of the tech guys runs over and hands me a binder "hold this, don't move, just hold this" and runs off. Well of course, I had to look inside. Oh my gosh! I was holding all of the piano players hand written music for the entire show. I looked at Alex and said, "Lets run" We laughed, but when I saw the piano player round the corner, look at me and then look at his music in my hands I almost did just that. His face turned white as he said, "What are you doing?!" I think I tried to explain the entire scenario in under a second when the tech guy comes up behind laughing his head off. " Oh I thought you were some crazed fan trying to take off with my music" we all got a good laugh once he had his music safely back in his hands! Then we went back in the green room and met Johnny Lightfoot, the bass guitarist who is really weird and Graham Russel who is really tall and Australian I think. We just chilled back there with everybody while they drank bear and wine and we had water and the biggest chocolate chip cookie ever.

Well I don't know if I'll be mingling with any more eighties rock stars in the near future, but my first encounter was really fun. And I just realized that after that fantastic story I have no photographic evidence of my brush with famous people. My camera's batteries had died and we didn't get any pictures. But believe me, if I was going to make up a story of meeting celebrities I would meet Rascal Flats, Tim McGraw, Alisha Keys or even Josh Grobin. Any of them would have made a way cooler story :)

ALLIE'S FIRST STEPS!

My baby is growing up way too fast. Allie is nine months today and last night she started taking her first steps Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

So about a week or so ago Alex's cousin lauren and her husband Ephriam came into town. It was her birthday and she had gotten some golf clubs and they all wanted to go golfing. Unfortunately for me I was expecting to be ditched and left with the kids all day because I didn't have any clubs. So we went to Fiesta Fun with the kids and all the cousins for a some festive fun and they show up with a brand spank'n new set of clubs. "Who's are those?" I ask. Can you believe it they had found them on sale for like $100 (the cute pink and black back with 10 matching clubs) and got them for me. Alex was in on it too. So we all went golfing. Which is another story in itself because that was only my second time going and Lauren's first time. I golfed a 67. And for all you golfers out there that's "great." Not really. If you golfed every hole right you should end up with 36. Woop! I was just a little off, but it was so fun.

Allie Bug

So Allie's hair is finally starting to get long enough that I thought maybe I could put some hair ties in it and see. Well it's long enough all right, but it isn't all that thick so she looked like she had antennas instead of pig tails. Oh well she looks cute either way.

I just wanted to give a shout out for a new site everyone should take a look at. It's thefamilypost.zapto.org It's basically a web site my brother came up with and it's just getting started, but it's a great idea. It's a site to share your know-how and to get some info on stuff ranging from computers to recipe's. Go visit it and give your ideas or even just your suggestions for what you'd like to see on a site like this.

Life is good

I just have to say that conference was amazing. All the talks were so inspirational and almost everyone could be applied to me. I love that. It makes me realize just how good I have it and how happy my life truly is. Pres. David O. McKay said this:
The Secret of happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself - Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone. (Gospel Ideas, p. 442)

So here is what you'll find in my bag. Actually there's usually more in there, but I have a couple diaper's for Allie, wipes, burp rag, ziplock baggy with a granola bar for Tate and pears (and spoon) for Allie, strawberry hand sanitizer, baby lotion, cheerios and formula in the blue and pink twist top container, phone, Medicaid papers, Tate and Allie's immunization records, my wallet and the little purple bag has sanitizer peach lotion, 2 lip glosses, a pack of gum, tic tacs, eye drops and a hair tie. Normally you'll also find at least one sippy cup, a few toys and lots of wrappers, but I had just cleaned it out.