sometimes i miss being 16.

so sometimes myself and my friends like to pretend that we are younger than we are. it's just good fun and people usually mistake us for being younger than we are anyway so why not go with it? a couple of years ago we decided to drive down to iowa to catch the portable sounds touring featuring family force 5, thousand foot krutch, and toby mac. we figured that since we were going to iowa we really had no one to impress so we made some sharpie shirts, threw our hair up into messy buns and pretended we were 16, cause sometimes 16 is more fun than 20-something!
so we get to show where everyone seemed to be in wranglers or lee's, i'm not judging, just making an observation about iowa's culture. we proceeded to be the only 3 people that moved in the crowd the entire night! we used to think that artists used to say, "we love playing minneapolis, you guys are just so great" in every city with that city's name, we no longer think that....this random town in iowa got no such accolade. seriously iowans, get your act together.
after the show we decided to do the whole "get all the bands to sign our shirts and take pictures with us" thing cause we were being 16 remember? so we made the rounds. in the family force 5 picture we all look real special, it's hard to be krunk in homemade t-shirts and cheerleader hair.

thousand foot krutch was up next. in case you forgot, i'm a little bit in love with trevor mcnevan and i was genuinely excited to take a picture with them. you can totally tell in the picture, i'm grinning like an idiot. 

we ended the night in the toby mac line. he asked where we had come from and we told him it took us about 5 hours to get to the show and asked for a picture. he agreed, we got the shot all set up and the batteries in our camera died. total fail. but gabe-real came to the rescue and took a picture on his phone and then uploaded it to the toby mac website for us! hahahaha! his caption said something to the effect of driving from 5 hours away just for the show. some girl commented on the picture "i wish my mom would let me drive that far to see toby mac." we all laughed and figured we must have accomplished our mission of being teens again for the night because we certainly didn't have to ask our mom's if we could go to the concert!

i pray i never become too old or too cool to be 16.
xo

follow up, part 3.

the hosting gig has come and gone.
6 films.
5 not overly funny jokes.
4 dress changes.
3 hours.
2 hosts.
1 incredible night.

probably my favorite dress of the night!

it was fabulous and i felt like a princess all night.
and we got to announce that crown radio is merging with refuge radio. that's right, we're going fm baby!
xo

follow up, part 2.

so the show was last night and it was fabulous. beyond fabulous actually. there was hardly anyone there, perhaps this was due to the fact that the show started at 5:30! boo. anyway, we arrived a little late (sorry, we're adults and had to work and then fight traffic) and missed half of the mike mains show. then it was swimming with dolphins. then abandon kansas. the real story comes though after the show.
i was going to be brave, i was determined to talk to austin. so i bought a tank top mostly so i could have a reason to talk to him but also cause it's cute. then i confessed. i confessed that i was the girl who saw him on the street and then facebook messaged him about it. he remembered the message and wasn't too freaked out about it which i was very thankful for.
we ended up talking about the youth conference the band is going to be leading worship at this weekend and i'll be there representing the college where i work. i left it with saying that i was sure i'd see him around over the weekend and he said that we should definitely hang out over the weekend. i'm assuming this is due to the fact that i'll be one of the few over 18 year olds there but i'm taking it! perhaps someday those 'up in the stars' lyrics will be about me ;)
xo