The Boys from Bean Town

Let me paint you a picture...the stadium is completely dark, the crowd is going wild, suddenly I see smoke rising up out of the center of the stage....I begin the see their faces...their torsos, their feet...is this real? Am I really breathing the same air as...

The New Kids on the Block???

I wasn't ready for such an adrenaline rush! I had no idea I would be one of those crazed teeny boppers screaming at the top of my lungs for a boy band.

But I was.

I didn't think I would jump up and down like a giddy 12 year old.

But I did.

I didn't think I was their number one fan.

But I am.

Yes, it's true, I just returned from accomplishing a life long dream... attending a NKOTB concert. (Don't worry, I have more sophisticated dreams as well). Call me what you will, but I just had one heck of a weekend! I went with some other NKOTB fans...Teresa, Mallory and Anna. Teresa and I are/were Mallory and Anna's Young Women leaders. Back in May they actually set this whole thing up for us. We had an NKOTB night where we made our shirts, uh well, where we talked and then Mallory made our shirts for us a few days later. :) We prepped ourselves by listening to their music and watching VH1 behind the scenes shows about them. But really nothing could have prepared us for the amazing experience of going to the concert.

We each picked our favorite song and then wrote a line from it on the front of our T-shirts. My favorite song is "Tonight"....remember when we traveled 'round the world? Met a lot of people and gi-i-i-i-i-irls...talked about hangin' tough as long as you got the right stuff, didn't we girl, ahhhh ahhh... Sorry, I just had to break into song there for a second.

On the sleeve of my shirt I wrote "I heart Jonathon" (Who is both a new kid and the name of my hubby. Even though I really heart Jordan but I wanted it to do double duty and show my love for my hubby AND for the New Kids!)

Here we are having dinner right before the show.

Theresa had surgery on her foot a few months ago so she was able to use her disabled parking pass and we parked practically at the front door. How cool are those passes?!
This was fun...While we were waiting for the concert to start everyone was texting messages to the New Kids and then some of them would come up on the big screen. MINE CAME UP! I didn't have my phone so I asked Mallory to come up with something about Jordan being the wind beneath my wings. Here's what is came up with...(Mallory, you're the best.)
It's hard to see but it says, "Jordan, not a day goes by I don't thank the dear Lord for your existence. You are the wind beneath my wings. -Katie"

Just having some fun texting.

(Side note: For those of you who are my age, I realized we too were "texting" in high school. Remember when we would write things on our Ti 85 graphing calculators and pass them to our friends during class? ...Texting.)

right before the concert was about to start.

Here's a view showing where we were sitting...we were actually a little closer than the camera let's on but not by much!

Isn't this so epitome Boy Band? I loved it.

During the concert one of the New Kids said to the audience, Whose husbands are at home watching the kids so you can be heare at the concert tonight?". The audience let out a roar. I loved it. Most of us were there living out a childhood dream. Thank you Jordon, Joey, Jonathon, Donny and Danny. You guys still got the right stuff.

Next goal to work on...be a guest on the Oprah show.