The last few days have been a whirlwind of fun! Two huge events that we've been looking forward to for almost a year. First, Stella received tickets to the Taylor Swift 1989 concert tour for her birthday in March. These tickets were purchased in January! 10 months ago! I was perhaps more excited than her, but she was pretty darn excited! Second big event, our outdoor Wii party for the school auction. This started as a seed of a thought during drinks with friends last fall and turned into a really fun party that raised a good amount of money for our school. Double win!
Backing up a bit, mike turned 38 last Sunday. We went to the early movie at Flix Brewhouse and saw The Martian. Great movie. The kids really wanted to see this, too! They are definitely phasing out of animated movies into more gown up movies. For dinner that night Mike requested Chinese food. He's not big on dessert so we put 5 candles in an egg roll (one for each of us plus Rex!) and sang to him!
The next daywe had the state wide Healthiest State initiative walk (our school did it 2 days early) here's Stella and some of her besties. Clare, Stella, Mary, Megan, Ally and Berlin. Porter and his friends ran way ahead. Porters goal is to pretty much ignore me when I'm at school and I'm cool with that! Haha! So no pics his group!
So the Taylor Swift concert. Stella and Ella made shirts to wear. I thought this would be really fun for them and get them excited for the concert. Also, I was not willing to drop $40 for a tshirt at the concert. They had so much fun making their shirts and at the concert they received SO many compliments on them. And as we're we're walking around we heard numerous times people commenting on them. These shirts cost less than $7 total to make!
The back of the shirts. It was the 1989 tour, the year Taylor was born. Stella wrote all the songs from the 1989 album on the back of her shirt and Ella wrote her favoritve songs from the album on hers.
In front of one of many of the semis moving all of the equipment!
Being silly!
Our first sight of TS! I have videomofbher coming in stage it was crazy! She's I the purplish-blue in the front.
We had decent seats and there was a catwalk that elevated and rotated so everyone was up close to her. She was so gracious and just really seemed to enjoy "taking it all in" during the concert.
The last big concert I attended was in college many, many moons ago. Taylor had a wrist band taped to the back of every chair in wells Fargo.......that's 14,000 seats! The wrist band lit up to her songs, sometimes they were all the same color, sometimes not. It was amazing and made it fun to see everyone all over the place. Here they are all lit up red.
There was a huge screen set up to see her and the quality was amazing....like she was right next to us!
Enore! The one song Stella wanted to hear was "Shake it Off" that was the encore it was awesome!
The next morning was Grandparents day at SFA. The kids were so excited to have Papa, Gramdpa, and Grandma attend. They missed Nana, but she was having a great time touring Cape Cod!
No blog post is complete without a cute Rex pic. I thought this was a cute side shot! Haha!
So our 2nd big event. The Wii Party. We co-hosted with 4 other couples and put on this outdoor Wii party for the school auction. It turned out being a big success! We are planning on hosting it agin next year. We've been planning this since February so it was really fun to host it!
Friday night Mike, Jeff and Spencer set up all the screens. Saturday P had a flag football game at 11. It was windy. We got home and all the screens had blown over. Lots of extra work for Mike.
The set up, 4 screens plus a big screen for the championship game to be displayed on.
Blurry, but some of the attendees checking things out.
Oh yes, the Shotski mad many appearances last night. Hahaha!
View of the deck.
People playing Wii games. I didn't take many pics. But Mike put a ton of time and work into this event for our school. It was a super fun night. I'm already looking forward to hosting this party next fall!!
4 comments:
love that Stella spent so much time writing out all of Taylor Swift's songs on her shirt. Pretty cool about the bracelets! The Wii party does look pretty cool! Great weather for it!
It is so great that you & Mike do so much for your school. Looks like the party turned out great. I'm sure you were as excited to see TS as the girls were! Love their outfits!
First of all, happy birthday to Mike!! The Taylor Swift concert looks soooooooo cool! Love Stella's top she made!!! The bracelets are a cool idea!! Stella will remember the concert forever. The WIi party looks like a success!! Know it was tons of work. Great weather for it. Sorry I missed grandparent's day.
Great picrures, looka like a fun time in FL
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