Let me just tell you how wonderful it is to have family come and visit!!!!
Friday night Jackie's sister Mary and her youngest daughter Karmen arrived for an 11 day visit. We were extremely excited to have them come out and share our town with us. They arrived late Friday night and Saturday morning was the start of a pretty busy schedule (at least so far). Saturday Karmen and Mia (our other niece) went to a Jonas Brothers concert and were so excited about it that they couldn't sleep the night before. When we all caught up on Sunday about their experiences, they did not have enough good things to say about it.
Then Sunday afternoon, Mia tells us that she was able to get an invite for her and Karmen to be casted audience members for their 3D movie that they were shooting on Monday. The only hang up was they needed a chaperon to take them and be with them all day (11am-9pm). I was the lucky one chosen to go with them and I do have to admit I was a bit excited myself. Living in California all my life, I can't say that I have had that many opportunities for something like this.
So... yesterday I picked the girls up and we headed the the Honda Center in Orange at 10am for a day with the Jonas Brothers. The girls were so excited they just kept giggling. Once we were inside, they were assigned to the yellow group (which ended up being a not so bad group, but the girls will tell you it was the worst group to be in). After approximately 2 hours of waiting in lines, we were brought into the arena and the girls again had to wait to be called down as audience for some of the scenes in the movie. At one point they thought for sure they were not going to be picked to go down and they were just about in tears. Needless to say, they were eventually taken down and they were so close to the stage that the boys actually touched their hands!!! :) Once we finished with the taping portion of the movie, we were fed and asked to wait for a while longer.....Then the girls were taken down with all the kids that came for the day to the floor to watch the concert that the Jonas Brothers were doing that night. Mia and Karmen were up close to the stage most of the night and had a ton of fun from what I can tell. Mia made a cute comment that her life was now 95% complete. !!!
Here are a couple pictures from what I could see from the concert, but it was not nearly as good as the girls view!
This is of the boys up on platforms above the entire crowd. You can barely make them out!
Friday night Jackie's sister Mary and her youngest daughter Karmen arrived for an 11 day visit. We were extremely excited to have them come out and share our town with us. They arrived late Friday night and Saturday morning was the start of a pretty busy schedule (at least so far). Saturday Karmen and Mia (our other niece) went to a Jonas Brothers concert and were so excited about it that they couldn't sleep the night before. When we all caught up on Sunday about their experiences, they did not have enough good things to say about it.
Then Sunday afternoon, Mia tells us that she was able to get an invite for her and Karmen to be casted audience members for their 3D movie that they were shooting on Monday. The only hang up was they needed a chaperon to take them and be with them all day (11am-9pm). I was the lucky one chosen to go with them and I do have to admit I was a bit excited myself. Living in California all my life, I can't say that I have had that many opportunities for something like this.
So... yesterday I picked the girls up and we headed the the Honda Center in Orange at 10am for a day with the Jonas Brothers. The girls were so excited they just kept giggling. Once we were inside, they were assigned to the yellow group (which ended up being a not so bad group, but the girls will tell you it was the worst group to be in). After approximately 2 hours of waiting in lines, we were brought into the arena and the girls again had to wait to be called down as audience for some of the scenes in the movie. At one point they thought for sure they were not going to be picked to go down and they were just about in tears. Needless to say, they were eventually taken down and they were so close to the stage that the boys actually touched their hands!!! :) Once we finished with the taping portion of the movie, we were fed and asked to wait for a while longer.....Then the girls were taken down with all the kids that came for the day to the floor to watch the concert that the Jonas Brothers were doing that night. Mia and Karmen were up close to the stage most of the night and had a ton of fun from what I can tell. Mia made a cute comment that her life was now 95% complete. !!!
Here are a couple pictures from what I could see from the concert, but it was not nearly as good as the girls view!
This is of the boys up on platforms above the entire crowd. You can barely make them out!
This one is of the oldest brother Kevin coming down the stage with his arm up in the air.
This is a picture of the youngest brother Nick on the big screen they have up. 
I figured I should probably give a description of what the pictures were so that you could kind of try to figure it out. :)I am not quite sure that yesterday could be topped for Karmen, but I am hoping that the rest of Mary and Karmen's time will be as wonderful as the time so far.
6 comments:
That is pretty awesome if I do say so myself. I know Kennedie and Carter would just die if they got touched by them. We went to their concert last year.
Hey Ashley and Jackie! I saw your comment on my blog and headed over to yours :-) I love the layout - it is so cheery and colorful. Did you design it yourself? I am glad you are having fun time with my mom and Karmen, from what I have heard from my mom they are also having a blast!
Hey, just following blogs around too:) Cute layout and I wish I was there for a visit as well. Reminds me of when I was 18 and came to CA with my best friend and did some of the same things Mom and Karmen are doing:)
You started something Ashley with your blog layouts - things spread like wild fires in our family :-) Thanks!! I haven't picked mine yet but it looks like I better hurry or the whole fam will get all the good ones :-)
Ash! It is soooooooooooo good to hear from you! You look awesome and seem to be so happy. How are you? How's life? I am so glad you found mme - or at least my blog - I am not very good at it though. Are you in Redlands? What is going on in your life? So many questions!!! -L
i dont think that day was topped by anything else, but that would be nearly impossible!
thanks again for taking us!
i miss you guys all already :(
i find myself 'california dreamin' quite often :)
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