I'm Back!

Yes, some of you must of wondered, "where did Steph go", "is she alive?" Well I'm back and yes, I'm still alive. I've just been so busy this last month. I can't believe so much time has gone by since I posted last. I have to admit, when I do get a moment to get on the computer, I usually just check my face book and don't even look at my blog. It's just so much quicker and easier for me to do that, instead of having to type up a post on blogger. Sorry about that.

Well February was quick and seemed to fly by. I didn't even take any pictures of Valentines day or anything else I want to write about. That is how crazy my life has been lately.

We have had a lot of drama with Jessica this month. For any of you out there that have older teenage daughters, I'm sure you will understand. For the rest of you....just wait!! Jessica and Tyler broke up, well we kind of forced them to break up. Tyler needs to spend this last six month before his mission, preparing for a mission. And Jessica is just to much of a distraction to him. So for the past few weeks, Clay and I have been "Satan" in Jessica's eyes because we have cut off all communication between the two of them. That is about all I'm going to write about that. So much more happened, but I don't want to get into all of it, so I'll leave it at that.

I had our big Blue and Gold dinner last week for scouts. I'm just so happy when those nights are over and done with. It turned out to be a big success and we had a record number of people that turned out for it. Christine, my cousin, happened to see me while I was in the middle of that night and got to see me in all my glory, scout shirt and all. It's so much fun to have her close by and to always run into her at church.

The thrill of the month came last Thursday night. It was of course the night Rascal Flatt's was in town. My girlfriend Stephanie and I went last year together to the concert and had the best time so I couldn't think of a better person to go again with this year.
We never buy our tickets in advance, we learned that last year when we bought our tickets the same night as the concert and got great seats. So we headed up to Salt Lake to hopefully have the same kind of luck as last year. Boy were we right!!!! When we got to the box office we asked the guy if he had any good seat available and he tells us he has 9th row on the floor available!! We snatched them up and headed outside to try and win backstage passes with the radio stations. The radio stations had us call in on their cell phones and they choose a certain number that would win. I'm looking at he radio DJ talking on his cell phone with the winner and then happen to look over at my friends who is talking and could tell that they were talking to each other. She runs up to the front where the DJ is standing and then he announces that he has a winner. My friend Stephanie had just won a pass to see Rascal Flatts live!! Only one of us could go see them and she gave the pass to me. Yes, that is a true friend right there, for you!

Here I am with my three favorite guys!! As soon as they walked in the room I almost couldn't breathe! They set up a line almost like a wedding reception and they had everyone come by real quickly and then they were able to get a picture with them as well. Everyone else was just shaking their hands, but when it was my turn I walked up to them (well it was more like a skip) and I gave all three of them a big hug!!! Yes, I man handled them!

Then it kept getting better from there. When I went to look for my friend in our seats I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them. We were right up front, right next to the stage!!

Here is our seats, there is the stage!

Jessica Simpson was their opening act. She was alright, not as bad as I thought she would be!

Here I am down in the tunnel waiting for my turn to see the boys!

The rest of the night was pure heaven. We had the chance to hold all three boys hands during the concert. They were so cute to everyone. When they would hold your hand they would look you right in the eyes, and Gary (lead singer) would sing to you!!! I could not of asked for a more perfect night!

Well enough about that! I'm sure your all tired of hearing about my night. The rest of the week was spent buying a new couch for the family room, planning our family vacations for the rest of the year, getting the boys registered for baseball, basketball games, ortho appts and Doctors appts. You can see now why I haven't had time to blog much lately.
We decided as a family for spring break to go to Texas. We gave the kids the option to go to Disneyland and a few other places and they all picked Texas. We have been there twice already with the kids and it's one of their favorite places to go on vacation. Clay's sisters live out there and we will be staying with them for the week. The kids and Clay and I decided that this year we will have to go to Schlitterbahn Waterpark twice while we are there. If you have never heard of this place, you'll have to look it up on the internet. It is the most fun place, I think, to go in Texas. We will of course go to Sea World, go tubing down some river, I can't remember the name of, and water ski. Thankfully Clay's sister has a boat and loves to take us skiing while we are there visiting. The kids are so excited about this vacation and are even excited about the plane ride out there. Our next family vacation we are planning is for the summer. Clay's other sister owns timeshare on a huge houseboat that they take to Lake Powell every year. We are planning on going with them sometime this summer for a week on the house boat. The rest of the summer is already planned out as well. We have baseball for the boys, EFY for the girls and girls camp. That doesn't leave us with to many open weeks left to just relax and enjoy the summer.
I promise to try and do better with keeping up with my blog. Hopefully I will be able to do better in March!