Concerts

So James and I got to go to the Fleetwood Mac Concert Last Night which was amazing! I absolutely loved it! I have been to see Stevie Nicks by herself twice and I enjoyed her by herself a little more, but it was still an amazing show. I thought I would do little photo chronology of the concerts I have attended. James never attended concerts of famous people before I met him so I'll put on the list when he started attending them with me. Since some are from long ago before digital pictures and since I'm at work and don't have access to all my pictures, I will just post a random pic of the person in concert. James' favorite concert was definitely Smashing Pumpkins. I have loved all the concerts, but my favorite was probably Aerosmith because I went with two of my best girl friends in highschool (Autumn and Tiffany) and two of my best guy friends (Cullen and Curtis). We had grass passes so we danced the night away and Aerosmith even came out to a separate stage on the lawn near us and played for us on the lawn as well. I hadn't really realized how many concerts I had gone to until I compiled this list. I absolutely love concerts it's so fun to see good music live.

Summer of 1998: Stevie Nicks Enchanted Tour in Raleigh NC (Opening Act: Bozz Scaggs, went with my good friend Imani: we are both huge Stevie Nicks fans)


Summer of 2001: Stevie Nicks Trouble in Shangri-La Tour in Raleigh NC (Can't remember if there was an opening act, went with my friend Imani again)


October 2002: Aerosmith Girls of Summer Tour in Raleigh NC (Opening Acts: Mest and Kid Rock: definitely not my favorite bands)


James and I got married, so now he comes to the shows with me.

March 2006: Counting Crows in SLC UT (A picture I actually took)


Fall 2007: Smashing Pumpkins in Orem UT (Opening Act: The Bravery: Had really bad potty mouths, while Smashing Pumpkins were way clean)


March 2008: Collective Soul in SLC UT


Summer of 2008: Journey, Heart, Cheaptrick in SLC UT

Journey

Heart

Cheaptrick with their wicked crazy guitar

June 2009: Fleetwood Mac Unleashed Tour in SLC UT (More pictures I actually took, no opening acts either)

Memorial Day Weekend

I have tons of pics to post, but I'll put those at the end. For Memorial Day weekend James and I decided to go to the Grand Canyon since I had never been there. We left on Wednesday night and stayed in Kanab and then on Thursday morning drove to the Grand Canyon. It wasn't too hot and was pretty cloudy. It didn't make for good pictures, but it was nice that it wasn't too hot. Thursday night it rained and rained for like 10 hours straight. We didn't get wet in our tent but it was so loud it was hard to sleep. Friday we woke up and made some Heavenly Hash for breakfast. We then did an amazing hike down to "Dripping Springs". Getting back up was hard, but way worth it, it was so beautiful. We ate at a super nice restaurant in the Grand Canyon to reward ourselves for the hike. When we left the restaurant it was colder outside and the wind was picking up again. We got back to our campsite and it started raining again..... James turned to me and we decided that we had HAD it, so we smooshed our muddy tent and tarp into our trunk and slept in the car, which was much less noisy than the tent and slept while it rained another 10 hours straight. The next morning we left and decided we'd stay in Kanab for 2 nights instead of just 1. We found the LAST motel room in Kanab and played around Kanab. We went to this movie set museum that was free and played around there. The Sunday we got up and went to Bryce's National Park which was absolutely beautiful. We then drove back to Kanab again and stayed the night. Monday morning we got up early and went to drive through St. George and though Zion's National Park on the way home. James took over 300 pictures on our whole trip. We saw a bunch of deer and coyotees. We even saw some wild turkey's but they ran away before we could get their picture. Now after that long story enjoy some pictures.

Our Campsite. It was a nice campsite. Even though we shared it with over 300 other people they were spaced out enough that we weren't overcrowded.

The Grand Canyon behind us

Getting ready to go on our hike. Notice the clouds.

Bryce's Canyon behind us

Las Vegas

So Way over a month ago I visited Vegas for a work conference. It was a lot of fun and I also got to see our old neighbors from our old duplex Jamie and Garth! Here are some pics.

My home for 5 days at the Mandalay Bay. It was awesome and had a huge jacuzzi tub in the bathroom and separate shower and there was a TV in the bathroom so I took lots of bubble baths while watching TV.

Me and Jamie watching conference together. Her family was awesome and had me over for dinner and to watch conference the Sunday I was there.

This was my favorite store by far: The M&M Store! It was 4 stories high and had tons of cool and yummy things.

Penn and Teller were the entertainment for the conference so we got to see them for free!

My co-workers at the conference

Only in Spanish Fork...

Made in China, shipped directly to Spanish Fork.

Omniture Summit

Once a year at James' work they do a conference for all of their customer's called Summit. James got to spend the week in Salt Lake and even got to see Maroon 5 live at the Grand America Hotel. Omniture put James up at the Little America Hotel across the street. Since he had a huge hotel room by himself I decided to stay one of the nights with him. I got to Salt Lake by 6pm and we went out to dinner at the Lion's House and then I left the next morning after James presented. He did an awesome job by the way. He got to present their new products to their CAB(Customer advisory board).

Valentine's Day

I always seem to be playing catch up. For Valentine's Day James and I just relaxed and played all day and didn't run ANY errands or did any chores. Our normal routine on Saturday is work work work since we both work full-time it's our only time to clean house and run errands. James took me out to a place called "Flour Girls and Dough Boys". They are the cutest little bistro and they usually only do lunch but they were doing a special for Valentine's day. It was awesome! They have the best homemade breads, soups, and desserts. They also took a stab at doing main courses and it was way good.

Winning Again!

I get my cute blog backgrounds from this site: Smittenblogdesigns They are really awesome and don't usually give giveaways, but I just happened to be perusing their freebies when I came across a giveaway and I totally won this!!!!!
I will take a picture with the shawl when I get it in the mail to post online instead of this model that I got from their website. I also am really behind in posting what we did for Valentine's day. I'm never home to hook up my camera to the computer to get the pictures off, but hopefully at the latest this weekend I can get that done.