Birthday & Tim McGraw

So things are finally settling down for us... what a month! Poor Colten had to wait two weeks for his birthday party, but it was a good one. He had 3 friends stay the night and then we went to San Antonio to play laser tag the next day. It made for a long day, but they had a blast and even Omie & Opie A came and played with us.

Here's a picture of the boys in the middle of a bakugan brawl:

and here is Colten with his birthday cupcakes:


This past weekend we had a special surprise that we weren't sure we'd get to do until Saturday morning at 10am. A few months ago as we turned into the driveway, there was a man changing his tire on the side of the road. John went and helped him on his way and he was very grateful, so much so that he wanted to give John tickets to a concert at the San Antonio Rodeo. They exchanged information and we thought he'd probably forget. But no, he called a few weeks ago to see if we could go on Feb 6th and so our hopes were a little higher. He was going to give us 6 tickets to see Tim McGraw - for our family and for each kid to bring a friend. Nice! So we waited to receive said tickets in the mail, until last Wednesday when he called again saying he wanted to meet us in San Antonio before the concert to give us the tickets and a parking pass. So we made plans to meet him at 10am at a gas station before the 1pm rodeo and concert. This was very concerning to me - getting all of us to San Antonio for an event we didn't have tickets for, but surprisingly all went well and he showed up and we went.

It was really great, the parking spot was right next to the AT&T center (I think that was the best part) and we walked around the grounds and saw the animals at the stock show (the pigs weren't there yet) and ate really expensive food and drank really expensive drinks. Wow, they really stick it to you there! The rodeo was awesome and the kids really enjoyed it. Everything went so fast, there was never a dead moment and all the contestants were awesome. Our seats were 6 rows from the arena right in the middle so we could see everything. Then when Tim McGraw came out, he was right in front of us on the revolving stage - great view! The boys were ready to go after a couple of songs, but the girls were happy to stay til the end. He put on a pretty good show, but we had to laugh a little, because he forgot some of the words to a couple songs. But it was great and I was happy everything worked out :)

Here's one of the pics I took during the concert - he has a full beard right now for a movie he's finishing up.