What's On Our Happy List?

One Direction in Salt Lake City!!
Oh gosh people. We had been waiting for this day for such a long time. {understatement}. We bought tickets for this event a year and three months ago! {no lie}

A few days before the concert we held a planning meeting {called "operation 1D"} to plan our agenda for concert day. Who does that? {we do} Kyleigh and Kenz found matching "UP ALL NIGHT" {title of 1st album} underwear to wear to concert. I've never seen anyone so excited about underwear in my life. and matching with a bff to boot. I told them me and all my girlfriends have matching undies too, they just aren't cute ones! haha. Dad told Kyleigh to just keep the underwear off the stage please. {hilarious.}

Emma's face here..CRACKED ME UP! She's not as into 1D as the majority here so her face said it all.  As in what's wrong with you people?

The day of the concert. I took these girls to stake out the back entrance of the concert venue. These girls were beyond excited when I picked them up. I swear one was close to hyperventilating. Some of them couldn't sleep the night before. Some said they were more excited than on Christmas morning. One said she fell asleep staring at Harry's poster, and woke up staring at Harry's poster....(the theme song for the day for these girls was "Search, Ponder, and Pray") Cracks. me. up!

These two were there way before we even were, and it paid off.
They had a Niall sighting before the black tarps got put up!

I met the cutest family that drove down from Idaho for the concert. They had all girls too. This was their youngest, on her dad's shoulders. 

This was just some random guy with his daughter who let me take his picture. The atmosphere there was just plain fun. It wouldn't even matter if we saw the band or not. It was just worth being a part of  all the excitement with the other diehards. {Even if it was a couple of hours in over 100 degree weather.} 

The fans wigged for every car that came in or out of the back gates...even for the UPS guy! We knew sound check was at three o' clock in the afternoon and from what we heard Harry was still at the hotel, so we knew that he would be a com'in. We thought Harry had arrived in this black SUV, but then Niall left in the yellow taxi, and then their buses came shortly after so who knows who was in what vehicle.... 

Once these buses came in and the gates got shut Kyleigh got on my shoulders to see if she could see over the brick wall to take pictures. Between the two of us we still weren't tall enough!   

The picture of them here had to suffice.

















Before the concert we went out to eat.

Hannah's sign... CUTE AS A BUTTON....every single one of you! {A line from their latest music video.}

Brie and I sat together. We had the worst seats ever, but we were just happy to be there!

Kyleigh listened to this video and blurted out "That's my mom!" {my football voice at its best}
That place was crazy loud. deafening! Towards the end of the concert I felt like my ear drums were crackling.

I asked Brie later if she had been screaming when they first came out.  "I was in shock", she said.

After the concert we hightailed it out of there. Once we got outdoors there were all these people waiting outside the venue...I was wondering who they were and what they were doing. Then I realized it was all the parents waiting to pick up their teenage daughters once the concert was over. Ha! You missed out my fellow parents! We booked it {some more than others} to the back of the venue...again.. just in time to see the buses leave. The girls wanted to head to the Hotel Monaco where the band had been staying, so we blitzed downtown as fast as we could. Call us crazy! The security guard at the hotel gave us some information... so we decided to stick around. {We weren't the only ones there.} We waited and waited. NO sighting! After a time it was pretty certain they had already headed to their next tour stop...Vancouver. We got home at one in the morning!....Exhausted from all the hype. It was a day not to be forgotten. 

camped out at the hotel...

Hannah drew this picture of the boys...so cute! 

Ky in her souvenir...