an early birthday surprise!

my very cute husband was trying to plan a fun birthday surprise, and decided he wanted to take me to a "little big town" (LBT) concert. after researching, he found them opening for carrie underwood in salt lake city on november 19. after he had secured the tickets it became apparent that he wouldn't be able to go with me...so sad!

side note: (how we got turned on to LBT!)
jon has never listened to a lyric of country western music. even enduring faith hill was absolute torture for him. so when he tuned into a "crossroads" show he dvr'ed from the cmt channel (791), to get my opinion about this band that was playing with lindsey buckingham, of the late fleetwood mac, i was pretty shocked! i had never heard of LBT, but we enjoyed listening to their interviews, and loved the sound of the music the band and lindsey were playing together. then we purchased a couple of cd's and he converted (a very little) to the dark side of country western music :). we were trying to get the kids converted and they moaned all summer long, whenever we jammed to LBT on vacations and such.


back to the story:
so, when he pulled me into his den tuesday morning, and told me he had a present for me, but i needed to have a friend with me to go, i was quite confused. finally he explained what was going on, and it was VERY short notice, and i didn't know what to do. i was pretty sure none of my children would want to go (except i was wrong, they all like carrie underwood), but he told me tod would go with me and take me to a nice dinner before if that sounded all right. i must say, having tod be my FRIEND for the evening was the best part of the whole present!


i loved spending the night with him. he is a great companion, and he made me feel like he was enjoying the whole evening, even if country isn't exactly his first choice! he treated me like a queen, and it was just so great to have some good conversation with him, one on one! even when your children get older, it's good to have a little mother-son/mother-daughter date i think. concentrating on the one! good lesson for me to remember:)

the concert was GREAT! LBT didn't let me down, they were great live, and carrie underwood, is amazingly talented and beautiful! one of my favorite songs that she did was "all american girl", and she called this 14 year old up on stage with her to help her sing, and she NAILED it! it was a great night, and i just want to thank mr. tod again, for being a wonderful and fun son. i loved being with you!


the girls are a couple of his "friends" :). they're pretty aren't they?

and thank you jon for the great birthday gift idea. i just wish you could have been there too, since you would have loved it in person, instead of through pictures and play by play. love you both SO MUCH!