I Don't Feel Old...

Travis and Meg when the used to like each other Josh and Meg they where so cute together...
Now Meg is almost 12 and in young women's, in less than a year she is be in Jr. high...




Josh and Travis they where such cute fun little boys...
Now they are great young men who honor their priesthood...

So lately I have been feeling like "when did I become a mom with an older family?" I can remember not to long ago feeling like will the diaper changing, night feedings, play dates, the store trampers end. Now I find myself thinking and remembering those days like they where so long ago. I am now the mom of two teenage boys and a daughter who will be 12 and in young women's in 3 months. Over half of my children are going to be in high school and Jr. high. My baby is five and lets me know it at least two times a day. Their needing me for loves after they fall down or blow on their food when it is to hot has changed to needing me to take them to work, helping them plan their dates. It went from mom knowing what is cute to wear to mom please just let me show you what I will wear. It went from spending the mornings running around getting all the homework done and signed, doing hair, picking out clothes, making sure they brushed their teeth. To just making sure their lunches are made and talking them into wearing a jacket. I guess what I am getting at is I don't feel that old. I don't feel like I have a 16 year who is a 11th grade and starting to get paperwork for college. Or a 15 year old who starts his first day of work this Wednesday. I don't feel old enough to have a house full of teenage boys everyday asking me questions about girls because their moms don't understand and Josh and Travis' mom does. I think it helps that they know I will cook and bake of them, (having good food at all times is key to having your kids friends wanting to hang out at your house, this way you always know what they are doing and getting into). Gone are the days when in the evenings we had nothing going on. Now it is at least two things at a time going on and Lynn and I dividing and conquering. The weekends are so full that when Lynn and I don't have much going on we don't know what to do. I guess all of this remembering and all this going on in this blah, blah, blog post comes down to this, my family is growing up and now it is time I do too...

(Without getting old because I DON'T FEEL OLD)

Finally Here Taylor Swift Concert...

So it's finally here a good event, story, reason to blog again. To begin I have to go back to December 2010 and a little girl starting to talk about her all time favorite person in the world (besides me her mother of course) Taylor Swift. As she starts talking about how great she is as a person, singer, gorgeous woman she starts slipping in the fact that she is also coming in concert to Salt Lake. Fast forward to January 2011 her dad and I start asking her what she would like for her birthday in February. Well Meg wouldn't tell us she just would say whatever. Lynn, Meg and I were all sitting around the kitchen table on a Saturday afternoon, Meg still not saying what she would like for her birthday. So Lynn looked at her and said, "OK I guess we don't have to get you anything, I think mom and I will take that money and go on a date." Well that went well, she yelled out "NO, what I want is to go see Taylor Swift in concert". Meg being daddy's little girl, yes we all have faced it that she is a daddy's girl got her wish. Lynn went right to the computer and looked up tickets. After spending way to much money for broker fees to make sure we had tickets and after waiting 7 1/2 months, Meg finally got her birthday present. The best part of all this was the fact that we were able to talk her aunt Sheri into buying tickets and taking herself and McKenna with us on our girls night out. With McKenna's birthday just a few weeks before the concert in September it made it a little easier to talk them into it.

Fast forward to last night September 28th 2011, two little girls birthday wishes about to come true...

I think they were more than ready... Meg celebrating her 11th birthday, Kenna celebrating her 10th birthday Kenna you ROCK, what a great poster you made...

Their birthday dinner at Wingers,

their hands already for the concert.

Meg and I outside before the concert...

Sheri and Kenna outside before the concert.
Thank you Sheri for being willing to use up all of the phone battery to take picture's for us!
Meg and I had so much fun with Sheri and Kenna they made the night a memory of a life time.

Honestly these girls were so ready to have fun. I know Meg was happy to have me go with her but honestly without her best friend McKenna the night would not have been the same. Sheri text this picture to the concert and it made it onto the big screen at the concert. It was so cool and fun to see...

OK, so this next picture had the most work put into it out of the night. Why do you say this picture was work? Well let me tell you. The really cute Taylor shirts that the girls are wearing took me about 45 minutes of pushing my way though 1oo people to get. It was crazy no line or order at all to this. It was so bad Sheri and I couldn't even stay close by each other and she just ended up having me get what she wanted to get. Believe me people you have to really love your daughter to go though what Sheri and I did just for these shirts. Neither one of us wanted to go back empty handed.

This was so cool, Taylor Swift sat down right in front of us in this tree to sing 4 songs. I thought the girls had died and gone to heaven. I'm just glad they remembered to breath!!!

All in all this was one of the best highlights I have had as a mother. As silly as it sounds I teared up a few times just by watching Meg enjoy herself so much. It was worth every dime I spent to see her so happy. It was worth every minute we had to wait the past 7 1/2 months. It was worth going to a concert that I really didn't know much about the music I was listening to. Taylor Swift put on the best concert I have ever been to!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS MEG

I LOVE YOU!!!