American Idol May 2012

 

Anyone know me knows I am a die hard fan of this show...and yes I own all Coldplay music too...

 

 

 

Awesome Day #1

 

Seeing Coldplay was pretty AWESOME!

Coldplay was performing on American Idol one night but they had to tape him with a live audience the morning of instead since he was due for the Weenie Roast in the Evening. I had signed up to get tickets for any American Idol taping and when I got this in my email I jumped on it! It wasn't an American Idol Episode but this was gonna be pretty darn cool I thought and it was! I brought my sis in law April, our friend Anna and her daughter Mckenna... He performed two songs for us, each of them twice ; 'Paradise' and 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' He was so crazy and he danced and was pretty chatty between takes...Very cool for a free little mini concert...And yes the crowd went wild when he changed his shirt for the next song/take hahahaha...Oh  and Mckenna was chosen to be in the 'Pit' with all the cute young girls screaming at the stage...She almost didn't wanna go but we moms made her {We were a little jealous} {ok a lot jealous} ;) She loved it...After the show we went and had lunch at The Cheescake Factory at The Grove in Hollywood.

 

See our cool little bracelets...They lit up in different ways during the songs...

 

 

Awesome Day #2

 

 

Scored more tickets from my friend Jen to go see the Finale show where these two {Jessica and Phillip} battled it out for the title of the next American Idol. This time since it was so last minute just us three SCV girls went and stood in line, got our tickets with seat numbers on it and then went and had lunch at The Yardhouse and then saw a movie 'Girl in Progress' while we waited to go into the Nokia theater...Our seats were pretty good. We were in the front row of the first balcony...not too bad...Phillip was my pick...They liked Jessica...They both were awesome! I knew he would win tho...;)

 

 

Anna, Mckenna and me

 

 



Awesome Day #3

 

Morning of the Finale results show I open up an email with Tickets to the show! I debate back and forth of whether or not I should go...Anna couldn't go, April couldn't but I really wanted to go...I decide to just go for it so I bring my little buddy Dalen. Totally unsure if we will even get in since the day before we got there around 10am and got balcony seats...Me and Dalen are gonna show up around 3:30pm. oh well I said, if we don't get in NBD. we'll go out to dinner just me and him... We get to the line and they are waiting for a number from the guys at the theater. The number is how many filler seats to hand out...We get two tickets...YES! hmmm wonder where we are sitting. I look at the tickets and it's floor seats!!!... We get to our seats and they are smack in the middle just a little left of their big camera stage setup about 30 rows back from the stage...It was awesome and best part was seeing Phillip Phillips win LIVE!

New Santa Clarita Life

So we moved here and I hit the ground running in the making friends department and we have made some amazing friends here in Santa Clarita!

In March we went to see Hunger Games with our hubbies...

Hyrum, Becky, Paul, Amber, Danny, Tina, Me, Josh, Brooke and Jason

Some of us girls went to Time Out for Women...

Lucnh break at TOFW...thought we would try Hooters since we figured not many LDS women would be choosing this little place for luch hahaha...

Getting our dance grooves on at TOFW

This lady is pretty awesome Hilary Weeks an inspirational speaker/singer...She had a really cute talk about a Clicker and how it helped her to recognize her good thoughts instead of dwelling on her bad thoughts...It was a cute trend started by this talk...Click Click... Read the story here and part two here

Then for Tina's birthday acouple months ago we did a girls trip to the Beach NO KIDS!!! ahhhhhh...it was AMAZING! and it was all day...we went to The Habit after and hit baskin robbins for dessert...These girls no how to Par-Tay! hahhaha...

Rachel, Me, Birthday Girl Tina, Brooke, and Amber

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Me and Tina having a romantic moment of some sort....hahaha...

Bathroom Break ---One of many...are these stalls a little short??? Josh told me why later hahaha...

 Brooke just looked so comfy we had to come sneak up on her...hahaha hence the drunk look on her face...

Riding the Waves...

Happy New Year

Our first visitors in our new home came just a few days after Christmas and a couple weeks after we moved in...The Stoeckles came to play!

We went to Mountasia, Magic Mountain, the Mall which had the Fossil Dig It Store {Lame} but the kids loved it haha... We went and visited Josh at his new work and on our way home stopped and visited his boss who was the manager of the City of Sierra Madre New Years Float...We got a free tour and the kids evn got to help decorate a little piece of one of the butterfly's wings...

Tami and I baked an awesome Chocolate Peppermint Cake for New Years and we did our traditional 8pm Happy New Years! with the kids and then played our favorite game Trains and Rummikub til we were too sleepy... It was a great week!

Mountasia

Magic Mountain

Dig-It Fossil

 

The Japanese Garden at City of Hope

Josh's work

Lexi working on the Float

Lexi watching it on TV

Our Yummy Cake

The kids center piece on the kids table ;) hahahaha

Summer Fun 2011

Lily went to her first movie...She lasted about halfway thru...lol ;) She did enjoy the popcorn though.

Swimming at friends houses...Always Fun...Lily in her little tube ;)

Lexi's Best Friend Sarah had an Ice Cream Birthday Party this summer and our kids had a blast!

Noah scooping up 'ice cream' into the bowl!

Lily enjoying an ice cream cone ;)

Lily at the Park being cute ;)

Best Buds

The boys ran a 5K together and Josh and I ran the 10K in July. This race was part of my half marathon training.

Happy Fourth of July ;)

Ran my first Half Marathon 7-4-11

earned my sticker on my car {thanks Tami}

This was the day I went to meet Josh at the Temple and when I got there he called to tell me he had gotten in a car accident. He was fine but needed to go home and deal with all the accident stuff so I still went to the temple. It was the first time I had ever gone to the temple by myself...When I came out I thought it might be my last time I would ever go to the Sacramento Temple so I snapped a picture of it with my phone...The Temple makes me happy ;) I will miss our temple trips here especially with my BF Tami :(

More Swimming {at Mackenzies}

Lexi's little neighbor bud Little Miss Taylor ;)
...and more swimming {at Taylor's}

Pioneer Day 2011

Spray Park with Adam, Taylor and Sarah

Train Ride with the Sarah and Adam

Sacramento Zoo with Sarah, Adam, Lola and Ella ;)

Best Friends with their matching shirts ;)

Lily the cheerleader lol ;)

Lexi helping Sarah around on Skates ;)

Folsom Outlets make us happy ;)

'The Blue Park'

Swingin High :0)

This park was fun because our kids would play 'Terminator' with Josh. He would wear his sunglasses and walk around picking up the kids and bringing them to the base. They would then try to sneak out of the base and Josh would walk around trying to re~capture them. {We only played this if there was no one else at the park lol}

Even the Stoeckle kids new this game

Tami's Baby Shower for Baby Aubrey

Baby Aubrey looking at her self ;) miss her...

Lexi's last dance class with Sarah and Lucy ;)

SIL April and I bought tix to this concert MONTHES ago and finally got to go!

Katy Perry's California Gurls Tour

It was way fun! We went to the Santa Barbara Bowl and This was Katy's last city on her tour and it was her home~town which was cute since she talked a lot about her life growing up around SB ;)

Our Summer in Elk Grove 2011