Fearless....

Megan loves the singer Taylor Swift. I mean, every time Megan is in her room, she is listening to her Taylor Swift CDs. So when we found out that she was coming to ESA (EnergySolutions Arena- the old Delta Center) in Salt lake, we decided to try to get tickets to the concert. The day before tickets went on sale to the general public, I joined the Kellie Pickler fan club (the opening act for Taylor Swift) in order to get tickets earlier. I know, I know, the things we do for our kids. So on May 26, a school night none the less, Mike, Megan, Karly, and I went to the concert. My dear sister-in-law, Nikki, was kind enough to watch the youngest 3 for us. We went to Cafe Rio for dinner and off to the show we went.

Here is Megan and Karly and a view of the stage from our seats. They were in the upper bowl, but 3rd row upper bowl so not too bad. And they got T-shirts, too.

Some of the pictures aren't the greatest quality but you get the general idea. I thought her guitar was cool.

She is quite a good performer. Mike was even impressed and he's been to a lot of concerts.

There were also huge screens so you could get better close-up views.

This was the costume for the one song Karly wanted to see "Love Song." Taylor came out in this cool red dress and...

....this beautiful white dress was underneath. She changed near the end of the song. The really cool thing is that Taylor designed the set and made all the decisions about this tour and she is only 19!

It was a great concert and it was a lot of fun. Spending time with just Megan and Karly was great. It doesn't happen very much. The crazy thing is that this was Megan and Karly's third concert. Their first one was the Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers concert back in October 2007. I had just had Mikayla 2 months before so Mike, being the great dad that he is, took Megan and Karly himself. Mike also took me to my first concert. I never thought about going to concerts as a teenager, so my first concert I was 21 and it was Alanis Morrisette (Jagged Little Pill tour) back in 1996. That is more my type of music but I have to admit I like Taylor Swift. She seems to to a nice girl. I would rather have Megan like her than Miley Cyrus or other females singers right now. I am not much for country music. It has moved into the acceptable category since I married Mike. Mike likes rap and country the most. The 2 types I did not like when we were dating. Country has somewhat redeemed itself and rap, not so much. I still don't like it.

Finally....

I know that y'all have been waiting on pins and needles to see what my "theme" was for the girls' Easter dresses this year! ;) So I won't keep you waiting any longer. It was rainbow pastels. Each girl had their own color. Megan had blue, Karly had pink, Monica had yellow, Katelyn had purple and Mikayla had green.

Here is the group after church because there just wasn't time before 9 am church on Easter morning to get a picture in. Mikayla apparently was done with pictures at this point.

I took a separate picture of Mikayla before Megan's but she decided she needed to be in this one also. So I did not post a separate one of her because she is in this one with Megan....

....and this one with Monica. But she is that cute so we decided to let her stay in both. :)

Here is Karly. Very cute!

Here is my Katelyn. She likes to pose for pictures now, obviously. :)

I know that my themes for the girls dresses may seem a little crazy. And it is. But I enjoy knowing that my girls look cute and go together in some way. Even if it is just in my mind! :)

That can't taste good...

Woo hoo! I finally got the pictures from our other camera downloaded. So we are going to do a little bit of a rewind here. These pictures are from the night before Easter. The traditional dyeing of the Easter eggs. Sorry that there are no pictures of the older kids. It was the usual dyeing session with them. Mikayla was the fun one that night. I don't mean any offense to the older kids....but it's true!!! Mike was helping Mikayla dye her eggs. Then she started to use the fork (ran out of plastic spoons) to eat the dye! Mike thought it was hilarious. Okay, I thought it was funny, too. :)

Here's Mikayla staring at Dad and laughing at his feeble attempts at trying to get her to stop.

Yep, I got a shot of the "meal" she was having. There is also an egg in that cup.

The after effects. She dyed a blue, a green, and a yellow egg. Mike kept giving her the darker colors because he thought it was funny. Needless to say, Mike and Mikayla have the same sense of humor. I just tell him she is more his than mine.