A Happy New Year!!

New Years Eve this year was awesome!!

What better way to describe a good start

to a new year than with pictures!

A little Foosball to start off the night!

Nikki, Heather, myself & Jeff

Nick & I
The first shot of the night

Me and my ladies!

Nikki, Heather, Heather & myself

Happy New Year!

Marisa & Nick

I think I've had a little too much to drink!!

It's time for bed!!

Of course I took a lot more pictures of this night, but you get the idea! Good friends, good family and good drinks!!

Oh the weather outside is frightful....

Marisa was home for two weeks over Christmas and since we had gotten dumped on with a lot of snow I told her that we HAD to go outside and play in it while she was home. So on Christmas Day (and after buying snow boots) we headed out in mom & dad's backyard and had a little fun!

Getting bundled up

All ready to head outside!
Marisa making a snow angel

Our heart we made in the snowbank -- it's kind of hard to see

I think it's time to go back inside!

It's Christmas Time......

I love Christmas! I didn't take advantage of the nice weather to get my lights put up outside, and I slowly got our Christmas tree up and decorated. I'm slowly adding things to our tree, I'd like to get a few more ornaments on here next year -- different kind of ornaments, not just plain bulbs. Our colors on our tree are purple and silver -- Purple is the only color that Nick and I agree on. So I bought some purple-velvety ribbon the other day and hopefully get a bow made for the top and possibly wrap some of that ribbon around the tree (I think I bought enough) next year. It's a work in progress I guess.....

I absolutely love our nativity set!!

New Technology

Nick and I purchased new phones this past weekend -- our contract was up so we needed to re-sign up for one and Nick was in desperate need of a new cell phone and I've been wanting a more text-friendly cell phone. Nick got an LG Rythm which has an mp3 player and lets face it anything is better than was he used to have! I decided on a Blackberry since they had gone down in price that same day, I thought "what the heck!". It took me a little while to get used to it and get it set up the way I want with ringers, contacts, and my icons where I want them, but I think I have it figure out. And as of now.......I'm addicted to my Blackberry!!!!

Flashback to my youth......

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 will forever be marked in my calendar as the day I finally saw the New Kids On The Block live in concert (cheesy I know). But to be honest, it was one of the best concerts I've been too. I've been to many concerts and I think that the best ones, are the ones that you are singing right along with the artist to every song! I've been to 3 concerts like that and now a fourth.

I left Wayne with my friend Nikki and her sister around 4:45 (concert starts at 8). First objective once we got to the Qwest Center (after the bathroom of course) buy myself a T-shirt! I was really surprised to see how many fans (wide variety of ages), wore old New Kids t-shirts. I even saw a couple girls with banana clips and their jeans tucked and rolled (oh god, did we really used to do that?!?!?). I waited in line for about 10 minutes to get my t-shirt and walked quickly to the gates (thank god they were allowing cameras!), ran into the bathroom to put on my new digs and found my seat -- Row 29 on the floor (I wouldn't have settled for anything further away!!). I had purchased tickets for my friends in Des Moines, so they were already there -- in their old school t-shirts!! AWESOME!!! Here we are before the show -- Karla, Kara & I.

Concert started right on time at 8 p.m. with the first opening act -- Lady Gaga. Wasn't too impressed with her, she was kinda weird, but whatever. The second act was Natasha Bedingfield who I was very familiar with and liked her music. She was even better live! She played until 8:45 and said that there would be a 20 minute intermission until the boys came on stage. At 9:05 the lights go down and the screaming begins....LOUD screaming....you could definitely tell the majority of the crowd were women!! They came on stage and they looked just like they used to, but a bit older of course. All still very good looking and they still can dance and sing the way I remember them.

They started off their show with a newer song from their new CD "The Block" (which I listen to a lot!) but the majority of the music was their old stuff, which I was surprised I still new the words. About half way through their show in between songs the lights went down and the next thing we knew they were on a round platform right behind us!! It just couldn't get any better!!

It's hard to pick just a couple pictures, I took about a hundred!! If you're interested in seeing all of them you can see them on my shutterfly. I also took 2 videos, one of them singing "The Right Stuff" and another singing "Tonight" when they were in the middle behind us -- that one is a little more fun because I got them talking before hand.

I was sad when they finally had to end their show...they came out with a 2 song encore with "Hangin' Tough" being their last and final song. When the lights came on all 3 of us said that was one of the best concerts EVER!!! And we were talking about it all the way home and I STILL have their songs in my head!! I think I will always be a New Kids On The Block fan!!! Along with about a million other 30-something women!!