Only 1 week in, and April is easily one of my favorite months so far in 2011! (Though I have my suspicions that October will blow April out of the water!) To back track a few months, at Christmas Adam's "big" gift to me was a shiny, mirrored mask...:
to copy this.....
Confused, I flipped the mask over and on the back it read "Merry Christmas, We're going to GAGA April 4th Tulsa, OK" I nearly suffocated him with my over-excited hugs! You have NO IDEA how much I LOOOOOOVE her! Anyone that knows my dear Mother, this is like her going to a Michael Jackson concert....(ok, this is also kind of like me going to a Michael Jackson concert, but like Mother like daughter....she was terribly jealous of the Gaga treat) Fast forward to last weekend and you get one of the best weekends I've experienced so far.
We headed off to Oklahoma Saturday, and spent the weekend playing and relaxing with my "frousin" Shannon & her 19mo tot Meg. Unfortunately, Kyle wasn't home as we had hoped he would be, though Adam fared alright even with his split food trips ("k, we want lunch from here...sides from here...drinks from here....should we write this down?") and back seat job as Meggie's buddy. He really is quite a good sport. :) With trips to the zoo, afternoon naps, late night talks, and plenty of meals out it was a wonderful mini-vacation. Adam even ferried Meg around Kohls for us so that Shannon & I could try on some new maternity wear without having to worry about a bored lil' girl. At one point I came out of the dressing room to see Adam spinning Meg's stroller in fast circles, come to a stop and hear her cry out "more? more?" as she giggled. Adam has always been great with kids, but the more I watch him these days, the more excited I am to see him and Baby O, a child who doesn't yet know how lucky they'll be to have him. Here are a few pictures of Shannon & me, at 30wks and 14wks perspectively.
Monday afternoon we headed out to Tulsa to squeeze in Maternity Gap and dinner before our show. We made great discoveries at the Gap, and pretty much completed my maternity wardrobe. As for dinner....we got caught in rush-hour and got to the concert center just in time to use the bathroom and eat pretzels before the opening act. (Semi Precious Weapons) When I had found out we were going to go to Gaga I was so excited, and assumed, being a Gaga concert, we would be in the nose bleeds. Not my dear Adam! Our seats were phenomenal!!! You felt like you could reach out and touch her!!!!!!! How I love this man who indulges me so!!! I felt incredibly old most of the time, with a hand count's worth of trips to the bathroom, needing to sit during the opening act, and repeatedly asking Lady Gaga come out because I needed a nap... Once the countdown screen dropped with her opening video short, I forgot what I was complaining about...cue the squeals, screams, grins and repeated looks at Adam as if to say "OH MY GOD----SHE'S ABOUT TO COME ON STAGE!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!!?" Thus began the best 2.5 hours of my life. (Ok, maybe not better then our wedding, but close) First of all, being Gaga, this was no ordinary concert, it was like going to a show, which makes sense since she's a theater geek. There were at least 7 set changes, a costume change nearly every song, use of trap doors, 'toasters', giant props and fire shooting brassieres. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! She spoke to the audience throughout, gladly accepted the fan gifts thrown on stage, thanking them and complimented one woman's talent with a jacket she made. Lady Gaga proceeded to wear said jacket for 2 songs, removing the one that was the original part of her costume. Adam and I rocked out (as did baby I'm sure!) with our "claws up" and danced to our very favorites. We were even treated to several songs she changed up as ballads for the show (such as Born This Way) and a preview of two new songs. For all of you wondering how my "poor husband" made it through 2.5hrs of Gaga...he kept leaning over asking "I wonder if she'll sing Alejandro?!" His favorite Gaga song...Come on people, you should know by now there's a reason we're such a good match!!! ;) After her two encores, Bad Romance and Born this Way, she and her dancers (whom she recognized after her very first song, as they had all been up 48hrs and finished shooting the music video for Judas at 6am that morning) took two theater/dance style bows, and stepped back together as the curtain dropped. I will never recover. I need to go to her concerts every year from now until forever.
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