Shout to the Lord. (aka, the happenings of 2/16/08)

My Jesus, My Savior
Lord there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love

My Comfort, My Shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You

Shout to the Lord, all the earth
Let us sing.
Power and majesty, praise to the King
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I'll love you, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You!

My Jesus, My Savior
Lord there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love

My Comfort, My Shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You

Shout to the Lord, all the earth
Let us sing.
Power and majesty, praise to the King.
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I'll love you, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You!

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^^ That was the last song eleventyseven performed at their concert on Saturday night. I love that song.

Before the concert, on Saturday afternoon, my grandparents had their 50th anniversary party. It was wonderful. My grandma looked the liveliest I've seen her since she's been in the hospital.

Just so you know, the "we" in this story is me and my sister. and occasionally it will include my dad too.

After the party, we headed up to Estes Park. We got in about 8:20 (because the concert doors didn't open until 8:30, and the concert didn't start until 9:30) and grabbed a quick supper, and then headed over to the building that the eleventyconcert was going to be in. We waited around for about a half hour until the previous thing was over (because the concert was part of a retreat, even though it was open to the public), and once it was over Jonathan came out of a back room. I started waving, and he came over and was all like "Hannah? Hannah Simpson!". He gave me a hug and we talked for a couple minutes. And then Caleb came out and I gave him a hug and his birthday cake. He told me that he kept on forgetting it was his birthday. Silly boy. Then Matt came out and said hey, and then they had to go get ready for the show.

The show was uber-fun. They played all my favorite songs, and some of their other songs (that I love too!) and the backstreet boys cover, and the garth brooks cover. We danced and had fun, and Caleb wore the birthday boy pin that I gave him, and Jonathan kept on cracking jokes about all the scene kids (because there were lots of scene kids there). After they played "How it Feels", Matt and Caleb were going back and forth saying "I love you, and you're my best friend!", and so I shouted out that I love Jonathan, and Jonathan shouted back saying that he loves Hannah Simpson. Then Matt was all like "Hannah Simpson's here?! Come up here Hannah Simpson!". (he used my full name the whole night) So I went up and gave them all hugs, and Matt told a story about why I'm awesome: "There once was an evil, rogue unicorn" (Jonathan: "who's name was CCM!") "who had backed me and Caleb up into a corner, and was going to spear us through and kill us! Then Hannah came dressed in Halo 3 armor and shot a plasma grenade on the unicorn's pants and saved us!".It was funny, and I laughed. What was funnier though, was that my sister was in the crowd still, and she says that there were a bunch of fangirls going "OMG! does she really know them? That's like, a dream come true!". I laughed even harder when I heard that.Anyway, after the story, Matt asked me what song I wanted them to play for me, but before I could answer, Caleb and Jonathan told him that he should make a song up for me right there. So he did. It made me smile. I wish I could've recorded it. (I think I'm gonna order the dvd that the retreat place made though, because they recorded the concert - hopefully the whole concert) After that, he asked me again what song they should play for me. I tried to get them to play Blue Lights, but they wouldn't. haha. So they played Happiness for me, and we danced and had fun and such. Then they played a song or two more, and the show was over.

After the show, we waited around for most/all of the fans to leave. I talked with my dad about the show and such.. (haha, he enjoyed it) and Caleb had me go out to their van to get some cd's for them because they had run out at the merch table. After the fans had left, I gave Caleb his presents and Amanda's card, and I gave them all their unicorn, and then we just hung out and talked for about 45 minutes, and then we left because my dad was waiting, and they were packing up all the merch and stuff and were going to be leaving soon as well. The poor boys - they had already been driving a ton in the past couple days, and then they had a 24 hour drive home.
It was a spiffy-cool-eleventyamazing night, and I had a wonderful time. ^_^

The whole weekend was wonderful. Hearing my dad talk on the way up and down from Estes Park was really cool. My grandma's party was cool. The concert was AMAZING.

I had a good weekend.