JOSH GROBAN

For Mothers Day Steve and the kids got me tickets to see Josh Groban. Steve knows how much I absolutely love Josh, as well as his music. The concert was Saturday the 25th in Anaheim We had the best time, and I have to say I was sad when the concert was over. Josh (I consider us close enough to be on a first name basis) put on an amazing concert. I will forever be in love with Josh Groban, and my husband for taking me. Thank you Steve...it was a night I will always remember.

Family Reunion in Picayune Mississippi

We recently returned from a family reunion on Steve's mother's side. It was her mom's 80th birthday so the whole reunion was planned around that. Thank you Grandma Floretta for having a birthday and giving us a reason to get together. The birthday party was really fun. Steve's mom and her two brothers wrote a song for their mom and sang it---they are an extremely musically talented family. It made me wonder what happened to Steve and his siblings (his brothers told me that they chose to accelerate in sports instead of songs). However I was pleasantly surprised on Sunday when the family, including Steve got up in Grandmas church (she belongs to a non-denomination Christian church)and sang a worship song. I teased Steve and told him that he's been holding out on the ward choir, so anyone reading this---get Tricia on him---I think he needs to join the choir! ( I video taped the whole thing---maybe I'll make a you-tube video and post it on my blog).

Steve's mom is from Mississippi so Steve grew up spending a lot of his summers in Mississippi until his family moved from Colorado to New York (at age 10). Anyway, to spare you a lot of boring details---he was able to meet FIRST cousins for the first time on this trip. Isn't that crazy? The rest of his family still made a trip once a year to visit Grandma and attend family get togethers, but this was Steve's first trip back to Mississippi in 19 years. I tried to post pictures of everyone in Steve's immediate family---We had a great time with them.

New Orleans

We just returned from a family vacation to New Orleans and Mississippi. We were out there for a family reunion and to celebrate Steve's Grandmothers 80th Birthday. I will post pictures form the B-day Party and Reunion later (they are on Steve's computer). These pictures are from the Swamp Tour we took in Slidell, LA and from the time we spent in New Orleans. We had such a good time on this trip. The swamp tour was really neat. We kept our eyes open to see Shrek.=) The kids as well as the adults loved seeing the alligators in the wild. After the swamp we went to New Orleans. It was so much fun. We just walked around, went to tourist trap shops, ate at a nice restaurant, went to a 3D ocean movie, drove around Hurricane Katrina sights, and went sight seeing. All in all it was a very relaxing vacation.