I went. . .

If you want to learn about this inspiring story, you can find a wonderful article here.

I'll apologize now for my pictures. My digital is just a simple throw in your purse, point and shoot kinda thing but I wanted to share these anyway.

I even had a front row seat just off center. I sat five chairs away from the family. My favorite part of the evening was watching them thoroughly enjoy the festivities.

I thought this concert might be quite sad and that tears would spill over.

And over.

And over.

But that was not the case. This evening was nothing short of a

JOYOUS CELEBRATION!



This was our host for the night.

Chup.

Which rhymes with 'hoop'
and not 'pup' like I thought.

He was funny and engaging.



Mindy Gledhill is a beautiful artist.
Her voice is easy and smooth.




She is an LDS artist and I assumed that would be evident in her music and lyrics. You know,
the sterotypical 'mormon rock' sound that sometimes is a bit too much. At least for me, hearing words sung of my Savior mixed with drums and heavy guitar riffs is really not my thing.

But I was surprised and listening was a pleasure.

Just beautiful music filled with fun, love, hope and happiness.


At one point she had the audience on their feet.
Clapping and dancing and singing at the top of their voices.
The family was so much fun to watch!

This is Courtney, better known to us out in blogland as

'c jane' and her little one, The Chief. A sister to the left

and Reachel Bagley, a dear friend, to her right. Claire and

Jane, Stephanie and Christian's oldest children, sat

with them the entire evening as well.

**thanks for the clarification Emily!