Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Iowa's Golden Girl

Iowa's Golden Girl, Shawn Johnson, returned home today. There was a HUGE welcome home gathering for her this evening at Wells Fargo Arena in downtown Des Moines, over 7,000 people attended! Crazy! It was really neat to see so many people out to support her. My neighbor is friends with Shawn's family, so we scored front row seats to the event tonight! It was very cool to be so close. Sara and Hannah also came with us. :)

Hannah and Stella in front of a Shawn cut-out.

Shawn!

Hannah and Stella again. Porter was there, but was running wild by this point in the evening!!! :)

The Nadas were the opener. They are my fav band from my college years. It was great to see them live, it had been a while---although it was different seeing them without a brewski in my hand!!!!!! :)

4 comments:

littlefamily said...

thanks for letting us ride along. What a great night.

Freebird.Crew said...

Awesome! Can't believe you had front row seats!

Nana said...

Sounds like everyone had a great time!! Cool that Cheryl knows Shawn's family - that rocks!! Huge crowd to support her. I hope that Stella will remember this.

Anna Leigh said...

that is so cool you guys were in the front row!