Summer Catch up post #2 (Paul McCartney)

Here is Summer Catch up post #2!! Are you ready for this?

I went to Paul McCartney! The Sir Paul McCartney!! It was serious the best concert I have ever been to because it was Paul!! I have been a Beatles fan since I was a young teen. I have been to Beatle band cover bands and had a blast but to hear a real Beatle sing their songs!! It was amazing!! It doesn't get any better than that!!

I went with my Mom and Dad.
They are the ones in the black shirts in the middle sitting down.

My Mom and I.

And of course I bought a T-shirt!

You can't go to Paul McCartney and not buy a T-shirt! I seriously wore this shirt for a week straight. I would wash it and then hang it up to dry. I love my shirt!! I think it is a very cute concert shirt! It is not your normal concert shirt!

My Mom got one too!

One of the 3 of us from our row, where are seats were!

We weren't that close but we were close enough to enjoy the concert! We couldn't afford the more expensive tickets!! The $45 ones suited us fine, just as long as we were able to there!

Me and my Dad!

This is when he first came out!

When he came out, I got emotional and shed a couple of tears! I didn't expect to cry when he came out! I have never gotten that emotional about any singer or band at a concert! See the jacket he is wearing? He only wore it for his first number. He then took it off because it was too hot.

See his guitar?! I love it!! He always has this guitar! I am so impressed at how Beatles Rock Band replicated it! You can see it here on my post about Beatles Rock Band (Scroll down to the bottom of the post because it is pretty long.) Also in that post you can read a little about how much I love the Beatles!!

I loved how Paul would do a Wings song and then a Beatles song. He kept rotating them. During the Beatles songs there would be clips of the Beatles on the stage in the background. This is a picture of one of those moments! It was awesome!

Of course he played the piano!

I thought it was hilarious that they had port a potties in the middle of the crowd on the floor level! See them in the distance?

He switched out his guitars a lot.

He told us that this one was the original guitar that he used to write "Paper Back Writer." Awesome huh?

He would always go back to this one though!

This ukulele is very special!

George Harrison was an amazing guitarist and he loved to play the ukulele. This ukulele was one of his and he gave it to Paul. Paul and George would always play their ukuleles together. Paul started to play this ukulele and he started to play, "Something in the Way She Moves." He played the song for a little while, then changed to a regular guitar. It was a tribute to George. There was a slide show of George during the song. I was bawling! It really touched me! You could feel how much Paul misses and loves George. He also did a tribute to John which was touching too! I loved it! Those were some of my favorite moments of the concert!

Another guitar!

This was during "Live and Let it Die."

It was awesome, the fireworks were synchronized to the music.

That was the last song he had played, it was supposed to be the fanally. At that time he hadn't sung the song I really wanted to hear him sing which is "Yesterday." He went off stage and my parents went to leave and I told them not to, that if we stood there and scram for a while he would come back out. They hadn't been to a concert in a long time and didn't know how it works. Sure enough he came back out. He came out with a Utah flag and was waving it around. Which was awesome because it was the first time ever a Beatle has given a concert in Utah. He sang a few songs and then went off stage again. This time my parents walked up the bleachers but I wasn't moving until I heard "Yesterday!" I stood there screaming and sure enough he came back out a second time. My parents weren't by me at this time but I was so happy because guess what he sang?!, "YESTERDAY!!!" He then sang another song then ended with "Helter Skelter!"

Best concert Ever!!

Some of my hi-lights were:

*"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"*

* "Eleanor Rigby"*

* Basically any Beatle song!*

*Being there with my Mom and Dad.*

*Paul talking in between songs and sharing stories.*

*And of course hearing, "Yesterday" being sang by the Sir Paul McCartney!*

Summer catch up post #1 (Chalk Art Festival)

Okay, I have been away from the blog world long enough!! I am going to try and get back into the swing of things. I used to be very good and now I have gotten used to not blogging as much because of being busy. I really miss it! I am going to make a goal to do at least 2 post a week, for the next 2 weeks. I am going to sum up some of our summer in these posts. I am going to call them Summer catch up posts, just like I called this one. This one being the first. I need to get these posted or I will never post them. This is my journal and I don't want to miss documenting these things.

Anyway, this post is about the Chalk Festival. This festival is at the Gateway mall. They have it every summer. We went to this in June. It is a festival where people draw on the sidewalks with chalk. Then people come and vote on the picture they like the most. The art work is pretty amazing!

Kurt has a friend named, Doug who always enters and draws one. That is how we knew about it. We went to support him and vote for him.

I took some pictures of my favorites.

An Island.

This one was Napoleon.

It was so awesome! It looked almost 3D! They made it look like it was a sheet of burned paper and it looked like you could pick up.

I had to take a picture of this one!

I loved how they have armed forces raising the flag and firefighters raising a flag as well! I appreciate all the heroes of this nation! I so love my country!

Such a cute one of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell!

I was so impressed with the umbrella on this one, not to mention the lady.

A tiger.

This one was so impressive because it was so big!

She also used shells and stones in certain areas to make it sparkle.

The water on this one around the mermaid looked real.

Avatar.

Haven't seen this movie yet but I thought they did a good job on it!

Einstein.

I love how is tongue is tied!

A Calvin and Hobbs one.

I was so impressed that even kids were drawing these works of art.

This is Doug.

Last year he did a self portrait. People would stop and look at his picture and then look at him, then back at the picture. Kurt said it was pretty impressive. I didn't get to see it because I didn't go last year.

This year he drew a bottle of salt tipped over. I was so impressed because this is what it looked like when you looked at it but if you looked through a camera and took a picture of it at the right angle...

...you would get this!

Pretty awesome huh? He drew it to promote his web site.

This one was pretty impressive and I think Kurt liked this one the best!

This was my favorite," Alice in Wonderland!"

Too bad I didn't get to see it finished but it was pretty amazing just seeing what they had gotten done.

The pictures I took don't do the art justice!

We did vote for Doug by the way. You only get one vote and we went there to support him. He did a great job!

Ayla had a good time there too!

She got to meet Snow White and get a balloon from her!

She was a really cute Snow White!

And of course Ayla ran around in the fountain there!

She had a blast getting soaked!!

This is her on the way home, in her change of clothes.

She also got a big fuzzy ball that we bought her.

We didn't stay home long. We got there and out the door Ayla and I went. We went to one of Kurt's cousin's little boy's 1st birthday party.

Ayla got to swim with her cousins there!

Notice how Morganne is wearing the outfit Ayla was wearing earlier? If Ayla wouldn't have gotten it soaked they would have been wearing the same outfit.

They had a bouncy house there! It was Ayla's first time in a bouncy house. She had a great time!

I wish I would have gotten a picture of her jumping! I got video though.

After we were done with the birthday party, Ayla and I went back to the house to meet up with my sister, Marion so we could go out towards Grantsville to meet our Dad at his best friend's ranch for a BBQ.

Ayla got to ride a horse for her first time!! We had a good time!

Notice in the picture Ayla is back into the top part of the outfit she had on earlier? Ya, her second outfit was drying out from swimming and by the time I would get home, I would be out the door again. So I had to use the extra pants I had in the diaper bag. We went from on event to the other but we had a lot of fun!!

Stay tuned for more Summer catch up post!!

Today is mine and my wonderful husband's 5th anniversary!

It has been a wonderful 6 years with my husband! I say 6 because 6 years ago I met my husband this very week. We went on our first date. Then didn't go on our second until a month later but we have been together ever since. We were married today, 5 years ago, marking the week we met and the same week I got my endowments out.

We were married in the Salt Lake Temple at 10:45 a.m.

Here we are coming outside the first time as a married couple!

I want to share five things that I love about my husband and why it has been a wonderful 6 years.

#1- He works really hard so I can stay home with our little girl and I love it!

#2- He is so patient with me and is an example of patience. I'm not so patient but he loves me anyway.

#3- He is easy to communicate with. We always can resolve things and do it without fighting.

#4- He is a wonderful father to Ayla. They always play together and have a good time. He takes good care of her and me.

#5- He is so unselfish and loves me despite my imperfections.

I really am truly in love with my husband! I couldn't ask for a better spouse to share life and all eternity with!

I love you honey!

To celebrate, we are going to the Temple tonight and tomorrow we are going to dinner and a movie! So excited to spend some alone time with my handsome hubby!