Birthday Fun



We celebrated my friend Kyleen's birthday this weekend.  This whole week has been quite exciting because it started with her finally getting engaged!  We've been waiting for quite some time for this to happen, so we were super excited when we finally got the call!  Now we begin our "sweating for the wedding" for our dresses next May!

We're such dorks!

 

After the exciting engagement annoucement, we celebrated her birthday.  For her birthday she wanted to go to this bar in town, Rednecks.  They have line dancing lessons for an hour on Friday nights, and then the rest of the night is spent showing off what you learned.  I have never been to quite an establishment, and quite frankly I was a little terrified.  Line dancing is not exactly my cup of tea...I'm more the booty shaking type. ;)  But this is what Kyleen wanted to do, so we went with smiles and boots on!

Ready to go, and I was already sweating!  This would be nothing compared to how much I would sweat line dancing!

 

No clue what dance we're doing here, but it was fun!

This place definitely provided us with some amazing people watching.  You had your real cowboys, your wannabe cowboys, and everything inbetween.  The crowd was also a lot more diverse than I thought it would be.  At one point this guy came and asked me to dance.  He was a friend of one of our friends with us and a trainer at another Y, so I said yes and nervously went out on the floor.  It was a blast!  I had no idea what I was doing, but he did and just literally spun me around the dance floor for the entire song.  He dipped me three times where my feet came off the ground.  I was amazed at how he could dip me back and bring me up so quickly and with so much ease.  This country dancing thing is no joke!  I was exhausted after that one spin on the dance floor, and we watched people out there all night. 

Out there and my face after!

They played country songs obviously for most of the night, but they did throw in a few hip hop songs as well.  Naturally this is where we got out on the floor and let them know how it was done, ha!  Such an unexpectedly fun night!  Contrary to our first thoughts, we are definitely going back there again!  Yeehaw!

Take Back The Night

To say I am a fan of Justin Timberlake would be a gross understatement.  I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with this man and have for YEARS!  Not only do I love him as a singer, dancer, and actor...he's a Memphis boy too!  So naturally when we found out last summer that he would be making an appearance in Omaha, we jumped on that opportunity immediately.  We purchased 4 tickets in the presale due to the fact that we're in his fan club :), and then we purchased another 4 tickets when they went on sale to the public...those seats were ON THE FLOOR!!!!  Looking back, it was quite funny how we got the tickets that day.  Jovan was down at the arena, I was at home on Ticketmaster refreshing every 2 seconds, and our friend Brian was doing the same at work.  We just kept working until we got the best seats!  Needless to say, we had absolutely no problem selling our other 4 tickets to the sold out show, and then began the LONG wait until February 10th. 

 

 

That day finally got here and was preceeded by a crazy busy weekend and followed by an even busier week!  I taught all day (completely distracted by my evening plans), and then we headed to dinner with our friends.  After dinner we headed to the show.  Justin's opening "act" was a DJ.  That. was. amazing!  It was one huge party before we even got started.  

 

This face about sums up how much I was freaking out the whole night. :)

Our seats were row 22 on the floor.  They were incredible!  We were so flipping close!  And yes...we did spend a small fortune, but it was worth EVERY penny! 
He put on an amazing show.  He is so talented.  I could go on and on about how great this night was, ha!  This was definitely the best concert I have been to, and I have been to a lot of concerts!  He was also sick that night, and you would have never known it until he talked.  And his lovely wife was there in the crowd too. 

First moment he came on stage 

Literally went over our heads--insane!

At one point in the show his stage came up and started moving across the room.  He literally went over our heads and was SO close to us.  It was such a neat set up.  Awesome night with awesome friends!  We may or may not be looking into seeing him in Kansas City this summer... ;)