Osmonds!

So I totally met The Osmond Family this morning! I went to Utah with my friends to go to their final performance from their 50th reunion tour at the Conference Center in SLC. We had decent seats, sitting in the Terrace and off to the right. It was a really great concert, they combined with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and it was beautiful. They were there commemorating the Pioneer Day Celebration (a Utah holiday).

Well the next morning (today) the Osmonds were going to be performing for Music and the Spoken Word. My friend Lisa and her hubby Joel are who I went with and her dad is head of productions so he is there early every Sunday morning. Well we went to go meet up with him because we had Joel and Lisa's little boy Cole with us and babies aren't allowed in during the taping because if they make any noise the mics pick it up. So we were escorted by an usher to the front of the conference center, and Ed (Lisa's dad) grabbed Cole and said "follow me". So we followed him and next thing we knew he led us backstage and behind this little black curtain and there were Merrill, and Alan waiting in the wings. (Alan was in his scooter because of the MS.) Then around the next corner we went into an enclosed area and there were Jimmy, Wayne and Jay! They were super nice! Jimmy especially. After we were introduced and visited for just a few moments (show time was only like 10 minutes away) we were led around the next corner to meet Marie! She is gorgeous! She played with Cole for a couple seconds and then we got to meet her. But alas Donny wasn't there at the moment to meet him! :(
So Ed took Cole and headed to the control room, and we were ushered back out front, we walked on stage, everyone was standing because at that same moment Presidents Monson and Eyring were being led in. So we were quickly seated about 2 minutes before showtime about 6 chairs away from President Monson!

It was so much fun! The concert was great, and of course I didn't have my camera. I took a couple on my phone, but there wouldn't have been enough time for pictures back stage anyway.

Thank you Joel and Lisa for a great weekend!