Boyce Avenue Concert SLC

Boyce Avenue is David's favorite band in the whole wide world. The girls and I are pretty big fans, too. We frequently find Allyson and Katelyn sitting on the couch with the ipad watching their music videos and playing their music and singing along. It's pretty cute. As soon as we found out they were coming to Salt Lake City for a concert, we bought tickets to go. The concert was the night of Kyler's 1st birthday, March 17th. We had a birthday party at my mom's house and then she kept the kids for the night so we could go party! ... he would be asleep at the time of the concert anyway, so we didn't feel too bad about going on the day of his birthday.

We had VIP passes to go to a meet and greet with the band members before the show. David was so concerned about getting there to pick up our VIP passes, that he wouldn't let us eat dinner before we went cause "there's no time!!" We were the first ones in line and ended up standing in line FOR.EV.ER before they even passed out the VIP passes. lol

My husband, the groupy. ;)

Something about paying money to meet someone feels a little awkward to me, but David loved every minute of it ... he'd of paid double to do it all over again (which he probably will someday very soon).

A little over a year ago, I surprised David with a plane ticket to Arizona to go and see Boyce Avenue with his brother at a concert they were doing at a place called, "The Deuce". I was uncomfortably 8 months pregnant with Kyler at the time, so there was no way I was going. David and his brother got there so early before the show, they ended up running into the band members before the show started, and they got to talk to them for a while.

When we went to the meet and greet in SLC, the guitar player (Fabian) recognized David and said, "Hey! You're the guy from the Deuce!" It was pretty awesome that out of all the people they meet at all of their concerts, that he would recognize David. That totally made his night.

We got a picture with all the band members. David chatted with them for a couple minutes. They gave everybody who bought VIP passes a small poster of the band. I liked the colors on the poster and thought that maybe when I get around to decorating Kyler's room it might be a good decoration to put on his wall, so I asked Alejandro (the singer ... and multi instrument player) to sign it to all 3 of our kids. I think they'll like that when they get a little older. :)

I think we were probably one of the top ten oldest people at the concert, but it was a lot of fun. We were on the front row ... thanks to starving ourselves to get there early. ;) David screamed like a girl the whole time. It was pretty funny. He loves the guitar player, Fabian, and he kept yelling his name saying, "YEAH!!! FABIAN!!! WOO!!!" I think he might not have been used to hearing MEN scream his name, cause every time David would do that Fabian would break a smile. He gave David a guitar pic and the set list with all of the songs they played. It was pretty awesome!

It was an amazing concert!! Check out their music on youtube if you haven't already. :)

Totally Random

Yep. A whole post of totally random pics from the last several months. Enjoy!!

David met Eli Manning backstage at a "Get Motivated" event he went to for work.

Kyler is obsessed with shoes ... except he doesn't like to wear them on his feet. He always puts them on his hands and crawls around. Silly boy!

We had our friends, the Pews, come over for dinner, games, and smores. This is the only picture we took that night. Wish we had gotten more! It was lots of fun! You can't see it in this picture, but Kyler oozed marshmallow spit all over daddy's head. Good thing he has no hair! ;)

We went to Seven Peaks with David's family to celebrate his sister, Sherri's, birthday. These are the only 2 pictures we took that day. Kyler covered in Cheeto's cheese after lunch. It was tons of fun! I hadn't been there in years. We really need to do better at taking more pictures ...

Allyson came down stairs after insisting on getting herself ready all by herself for the day. She had put a post it on her clothes that read, "Allyson got ready all by myself". I'm really glad she put that disclaimer on there. haha ;) I really do think she did a pretty good job, though.

Soon after moving to our new house, our ward had a talent show. Our new friends, Janae and Doug Pew, and I played a few fiddle songs for it (Janae and I on the fiddle. Doug on the guitar). Janae is a violin/fiddle rock star. Allyson and I are now taking violin lessons from her. Kind of excited about that! Again ... the only picture that got taken that night. Ya, we ... COUGH, COUGH, David ...is really bad at pulling out that camera.

Got ice cream?

There are no real words for this picture. lol

... or this picture, either.

One of David's many claims to fame. Marrying me is one of them. ;) A personal letter written to him from Doug Conant, the former CEO of Campbell's Soup Company.

What?

You know you've failed as a mother for the day when you look across the dinner table and see THIS. At least she's happy!

Katelyn wearing her little brother's clothes ... and they fit!

Kyler leaving the nest ... I mean, riding a bike for the first time. Feels like he's leaving the nest, though! He's growing up way too fast. sniffle sniffle :'(

Homemade princess tiaras.

Katelyn put herself to sleep in Kyler's crib. I think she misses being the baby sometimes.

Real boys play dress up.

Sunday afternoon camera sillies. :)

Sometimes I make David or Allyson take a picture of me,just so we know that I was really there. I'm almost always the one behind the camera, otherwise we don't get many pictures. :)

Kyler's 1st Birthday

Ok, I'm back. And it's time to catch up on the last few months of blog posts I haven't done yet. I wrote down all the things I could think of and went through all of our pictures from the last few months to make sure I don't forget anything. I wrote down a list of it all ... 15 different posts will be coming your way shortly! I can't guarantee I'll write a whole lot about each post, but you should get plenty of pictures to look at to keep your eyes happy. Hopefully I'll be all caught up by the end of the weekend. :)

So ... Kyler's 1st birthday.

I love love LOVE my baby boy to death!!! I can't believe he's growing up already. :'( If I had it my way, he'd stay a baby forever ... which may be why he's 15 months old now and still isn't walking unassisted yet. That's perfectly fine with me, though! Although, he's getting quite heavy to carry around ...

My cute, sweet, squishy little guy got 2 great birthday parties. His birthday fell just a couple of weeks before the move to our new house and we were feeling a little stressed about all of that. Grandma June (my mom) decided to throw him a party at her house on his birthday and then David's parents through him a little party at their house the following Sunday. Since everyone in the family got to celebrate with him at one party or the other, we decided that was good enough. Don't worry Kyler, Mommy and Daddy will be better parents next year and throw you a party at your own house. ;)

Here's some pics from the party at my mom's house. He's lost a lot of his chub in the last few months since these pictures were taken ... makes me sad :(. Time to start feeding him more marshmallows.

Sorry for the poor quality. These are all camera phone pics.

And here are some pics from the party at David's parent's house. David isn't as camera happy about taking lots of pictures as I am, so unfortunately there are only a couple from this day. Cake decorating is NOT one of my talents, fyi.

Happy 1st birthday, Ky Ky!! We love you!!