Elton John

I was unbelievably excited when I found out awhile back that SIR Elton John would be coming to little old Mankato (seriously!?!?)  I was all set to buy tickets for my mama and I to go and rock out with him.  It was a Monday when they went on sale (which are blessed days in our house since both Jack and Lauren are at school giving me a couple of hours of free time in the morning.)  Instead of waiting by my computer with my fingers twitching I totally forgot about the sale starting and went to the gym.  I was working my butt off when I looked at facebook and saw everyone commenting on their fantastic Elton John seats (or their lack thereof as they sold out like “that”.)  I was so pissed at myself but came to grips with it later.  Last Friday one of my friends posted on facebook that she had an extra seat available if anyone wanted it (for cost, sweet!)  I chimed in that I wanted it (not even knowing where the seat was located, I just wanted to go!)  I tried to convince a friend (that had two tickets) to sell me his and he could take mine (so both my mom and I could go) however, that was no dice.  Anyhow, I showed up and when I saw my seat I about died.  I was 4 rows back and right beside the stage.  My friend that bought them told me she thought they were a huge risk but would either be fantastic or epic crap.  We lucked out and got a face to face look at Elton the entire night.  I think our seats were just as good and better than most of them that paid $150+.

I used my digital zoom to get the close up shots so the pics are quite noisy, but I feel like I’m right there.

The one on the right was right as he dropped an f-bomb on the crowd (there were some technical problems and I wonder if the guy in charge got to keep his job.)

I was totally envious of the people in the floor seats though because at the end a bunch of them rushed the stage and he signed stuff for around 5 minutes. I also have a bunch of illegal video files, but didn’t want to bore you with them. :)  He started playing at about 8:05 and didn’t stop until around 11pm.  It was just him and the piano and it was definitely my favorite concert to date (not that I’ve been to a million of them.)

Creative play place

Today, we made a trip over to St. Peter for some fun at their community center.  I’m not sure why Mankato doesn’t have something like this (are we too big of a town?) but I really think we should.  We started out in the gym using all of our large muscles and then moved downstairs to the creative play place to use our imaginations and smaller muscles.  The kids had a blast and I got some much needed mommy chit chat in as well.  After we finished up the playing we had a picnic lunch and played at the tree-mendous playground (which I helped build back in my college days with Kappa Delta Pi!)  It was a busy and fun morning.

Sunday funday

Just a couple of random pics before church. 

Everybody now

I came home from volunteering at the consignment sale tonight to find everyone wearing feetie pajamas, including my husband.  Ok, technically he wasn’t wearing pajamas but a slanket, close enough.

Kindergarten roundup

Today, was Lauren’s kindergarten roundup at our local Elementary school.  It’s a bit scary to think, nevertheless write about.  It feels just like yesterday that she was itty-bitty teeny-tiny and I was just starting the blog and now she’s going to go to school all-day every day?

She was pretty excited to go in and check out her “new school.”

She was all smiles when she came home a couple of hours later. 

Hoppy Easter

The kids started the day by hunting for their eggs.  They really didn’t waste any time this year with the opening them up and devouring what was inside.  Jack must have been thinking, “give me the candy!!”

Then, it was off to Church for a fantastically uplifting service.

 

After church, it was time for some trampoline silliness.

The trampoline

We started the day out in the cold and rain to cheer on papa in his Easter bunny run.  I decided not to participate because it was happening on the path that I run all the time and so it just didn’t seem worthwhile to me.

After the run, it was off to Home depot to make a window bird feeder.  Jack is really getting into the projects and getting pins for his apron  just like his big sis’.

Thanks to Santa Claus for the fantastic trampoline he brought the Thompson children (big ones included as well.)  We’re optimistic that the poor weather is finished for the year and there won’t be an Easter blizzard to contend with.

It was a cold rainy and windy day, but it was the only day we had my dad’s help and since it’s quite the process to put it together the first time, today was the day!  Lauren couldn’t wait for it to be finished (and neither could this mama, because I was sick of answering the question as to when it would be time to jump.)

Time for Easter eggs

Lauren had a good time dipping the eggs.

Egg hunt

My MOMS Club had an Easter egg hunt and pot luck lunch today.  Lauren had fun running around trying to find eggs.  Jack accidentally found one egg and called it a day.  He was much more interested in playing that finding eggs.  However, once he discovered there were sweet treats inside of them, he was quite interested.

Jack’s sweet ‘do

This fantastic picture is slightly reminiscent of a mug shot (which hopefully my sweet boy will never have.)  However, I wanted to show off his sweet new hair do to you so it will have to do.  I let Kevin take Jack to get a trim all by himself (trusting, eh?  Don’t worry I threatened him before he left.  He knew better than to come back with something that would be unsatisfactory to me.)  It was just a basic trim up but it looks quite nice so we’ll definitely have to take him back there again.  However, I’m contemplating cosmetology school  so we can save some money (this boy grows hair FAST!)