mr. a-z

Most of you have already read about it here and here, but it was so great I think it deserves a whole other post. So here it is in my words (about a month late) . . .

It started out at work on a Monday afternoon, late in September. The phone rang and I noticed it said "URS Corp". Without any hesitation, I took the phone off the hook, handed it to Tyler (boss man) and said, "it's your dad". Next thing I hear is, "Cindy? Ya, just a minute", and Tyler hands the phone back to me. The conversation went a bit like this:

Cindy: "Aubry?"
Aubry: "I had to track you down immediately! I called your Mom and had to get your phone number at work. It is an emergency!"
Cindy: "Well, hi! How are you? What is going on?"
Aubry: "Hold on. Let me see if I can get my phone to do something fancy" {I hear clicking noises} "Ok, you there?"
Cindy: "Ya."
Andi: "Hi, Cindy Lou!"
Cindy: "Whoa! Andi! Hi! What's going on?"
Aubry: "What are you doing this weekend?" {I can hear Andi giggling and acting very excited}
Cindy: "Not much. Speaking in church and Travis and I are suppose to go on a date."
Aubry: "What if we came this weekend and we went to the Jason Mraz concert?"
Andi: "I'm ready to purchase a flight to Boise right now if you say yes!"
Aubry: "And I'm ready to purchase 3 tickets to the concert right now if you say yes!"
Cindy: "YES!!!!!"

So that's how it went and 5 days later Andi, Little Miss Olive, and Aubry were here in Boise chillin' with me for the weekend.

Saturday morning we went to the BODO Farmer's Market and shopped all around downtown . . .

I drooled all over Olive's cuteness . . .

Made a scene as we tried to get a picture with Mr. A-Z himself on the corner of Front and 9th . . .


We also hit up the cupcake shop in Eagle. That was my first cupcake experience and Aubry's 1,199th . . .

And that evening we hit up the concert. We were there nice and early, just as loyal fans would be . . .

And here he is . . . the one and only {and um, sexy!} Mr. Jason Mraz. The second he made his way on stage I felt like a giddy college girl again! I instantly longed for {dirty} green shaggy carpet, cold winter nights and Andi and her guitar . . .


It was so fun to have Andi in town for a few days, hanging out like we use to. I think this is the first time we've been back in Boise together since the college days and hung out the way we did. I love this girl . . .


And only as Aubry would do, she brought Robin along for the experience. What I would have given to have more of you Shanty girls there for real! Oh, the Shanty loves Jason Mraz!




Thank you, ladies, for making the quick trip to come see me. Ok, so maybe I was the added perk to Boise, but I'm sure glad Jason got you here ;)