To Phoenix in "A Blaze of Glory"

So one day Lenny heard about the BonJovi/Daughtry concert and thought it sounded fun to go to. The year that Chris Daughtry was on American Idol was the first year that Lenny and I watched it (and have been hooked ever since). He was by far our favorite that year and we were both upset when he was voted off. I vowed I wouldn't watch it anymore but that only lasted until the next week. Anyways...since that was forever ago...Lenny found out about the concert and we were set on going. Too bad it wasn't coming to Salt Lake. We asked McKay (Lenny's business partner) and Aimee (McKay's wife) if they were interested in going. They were. So we booked a flight to Phoenix, found some decent tickets for the concert and headed out of cold, snowy Utah and down to warm sunny Arizona. It was a great LITTLE getaway. We got some good rest, some good food and some great entertainment. The concert was AWESOME! I'm not even sure what the best part was. I'm for sure a bigger fan of Daughtry but Bon Jovi played a ton of songs that I hadn't even realized I already knew and really liked. The only bummer was me feeling like baby was going to fall out after standing for more that 10 minutes. So I would stand and then sit for a while (while EVERYONE else was still standing - although Lenny did sit down a couple of times with me. I'm not sure if he was just doing it so I wouldn't feel so stupid or if he was a little worn out too - anyways it was nice of him) and then I'd stand up again on the best parts of the songs and jump around a little and pump my arms a little until I had to sit down again. We had an incredibly great time and really want to thank both of our moms for helping with our kiddies while we were rockin out!

Some pictures of dinner and the concert.

Lenny and me at dinner.
It was a mexican resturant - which I don't really love
but they had the best dessert!

McKay and Aimee at dinner.

Daughtry singing a song

The insane crowd of people trying to buy concert merchandise -
and yes- we too waited through intermission and 3 BonJovi
songs to get our $45 workout shirts.

Jon Bon Jovi about 20 rows right in front of us!

Daughtry - What about now

Bon Jovi - It's my life

"Knock, knock"..."Who's there?"..."The Big Bad Wolf"..."What do you want"...Colored eggs"..."What color?"...

how about pink, blue, yellow, orange, green, of course all these colors mixed together to make pretty brownish-greenish eggs and then some bonus color kits like tie-dye (which did not end up looking like the eggs on the box) and Abby's favorite...sparkles. She loved the sparkle eggs so much she held them and played with them all day long. By the end of the day she had very sticky yet sparkly pink and purple hands. Somehow those sparkle eggs were missing the next day. I think the Easter Bunny wanted them back.

Jordan, Jackson, Kylee, and Abby

coloring eggs at Angie's

Boston wasn't too into coloring eggs this year but he really loved eating the sand out of Angie's sand pile. yum-yum. All in all it was a fun, messy day. Thanks Ang for volunteering your house for the mess headquarters and thanks for the sand.

Boston's sand goatee

Abby and I went with my sister Angie and her little girl Kylee
to the Disney on Ice show on Saturday. The girls had such a great
time and loved going out in their favorite princess dresses.
Abby even let me curl her hair and then she decided
she wanted some make-up and nail polish to go with it.
She loved everything about this outing. She even leaned
over and told me she wasn't scared when the
fire-breathing dragon came out! What a grown-up (and brave)
little girl she is getting to be.

Abby all dressed up for
Disney Princesses on Ice.

Abby was spellbound by the perfomances

Abby and her cousin Kylee at Grandma's
house after the big event. We had to stop in
so the little princesses could say "HI" to
grandma and grandpa. Plus I think the kids
all know that grandma's is always a good place
to get a little treat.