There are several reasons why; I'll blog about one of them now:
For Christmas this year, he surprised me with concert tickets to Casting Crowns. LOVE THEM! They are my most fav christian band :) Here's how he surprised me:
There was a large Precious Moments tin with my name on it. Inside, somewhere in the amiss of styrofoam popcorns was a book. Inside this book cover was a love note written by Mark, and telling me to turn to a certain page. I turned to that page and read the poem, which led me to a Christmas card in which was written another love note and two tickets to Casting Crowns. Probably the most creative and beautiful gift packaging ever :)
This past weekend was concert time! Too excited!! We had an amazing time :) As always, we intended to get there a little early, but of course, you know us, we did not. We did, however, actually get there IN TIME! Points for Us :) lol Okay, so here is a shot of us once we got to our seats:
The concert was fantastic. We sang, we laughed, we cuddled and swung to the music. It was an absolutely wonderful feeling to know that we were in this stadium filled with other Christians. It was like one big giant church service. Just awesome. Everyone, I mean every single person we saw, had the joy in their heart shining in their smiles. There were no crazy drunk people next to me annoying the crap out of me. There were no obscenities shouted into the crowd. There were no pushing or stealing of seats. Everyone was wearing enough clothes and not-too-much make-up. And my favorite quote of the evening from Mark... "I didn't even smell marijuana anywhere!" Bah-ahahaha! (So true, if you think about it.)
At intermission, where Mark Hall sent us off by saying "Save a baby, then go get one!" (my second favorite quote of the evening. It's one of those quotes where you kinda have to be there to get it. That man is hilarious for real.) Mark and I made the most ridiculous decision of our lives thus far... we went to go get a t-shirt. BIG MISTAKE (kinda - because I really love my t-shirt) There was only one t-shirt booth! Can you believe that!? Ridiculous. Worth it, though, I suppose. It took almost the entire intermission waddling like freaking penguins to get up to the front of this insane mass of t-shirt wanting fans. Look at my cute new tee, though!
...and here are a few of my favorite stage shots...
Half way through the concert, Mark switched seats with me. He said he wanted to be able to look at me. AWWW! He wanted to see me singing and praising the Lord and whenever I caught him looking at me I would stop. That was true. I would. Don't know why. Just did. So he switched with me.
Casting Crowns closed the concert with my favorite song: Until The Whole World Hears. I went nuts :) I was singing, I was dancing, my hands were in the air. Mark got his cute little show. Here's a shot of what was going on on stage while I was doin' my thang:
Really. It was like Mark Hall was singing just for me (and you, God, and all). Amazing. I was so happy they closed with that song.
Concert over. More penguin waddles through the crowd (we got stuck in the t-shirt crowd again on the way out the door). When we got to the outside it looked like there was some sort of mass evacuation and it was just a mess of cars going in every which direction. Total chaos. So, we took the opportunity to have some more fun. We turned the seats down in the back of the SUV, laid out a blanket, and got all cuddly; discussing our favorite moments from the concert, religion, racism, and social media. An hour later we looked out the windows and, finding a completely empty parking lot, got into our seats and drove to Walmart. We had a few things to pick up.
So we ended our Casting Crowns date night by Nerf sword fighting in the toy department of the Walmart off Zumbehl. Mark picked up his sword first, and in retaliation I grabbed one as well, exclaiming "There can be only one!" (Any of you Highlander fans should get that one!) We both got a few good hits, and then my sword hit a bunch of Star Wars action figures and they fell to the ground, conveniently just as a Wally World employee was turning the corner into our isle, and Mark said "Geez Nichole, I can't take you anywhere!!!" as he quickly threw his sword back on the shelf and I stood there in the center of the isle, sword in hand, utterly guilty. It was freaking hilarious.
A perfect ending :)
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