It has been a while since I have gotten flowers just cause. This was a good surprise. White roses are my FAVORITE flower---they are the flower we had my wedding, and I LOVE THE ARRANGEMENT!!
Easter in Arizona is becoming a tradition for our family. I was in the Easter pageant in Arizona years ago, which is what got Steve to come down. We went there this year, and stayed at an AMAZING Hilton Hotel ( one of the best hotels I have ever stayed in)....
These are pictures of us hanging out in our hotel. The sad thing is we wanted some good weather, but it was cold and rainy the entire time...but we still went swimming. We got to see lots of our friends and the place we use to work. 
The hotel had a huge Easter event with the Easter bunny. Andy LOVED the bunny, not like santa at all!!
We decided to go to the temple and take pictures with Andy walking around. The temple is "our place" and is so beautiful!
What a cute gal!!
The flowers there are so dang pretty!!
Andy wanted to touch everything
Our trip was so great. We saw Rodda, Raquel and Ed, Suzanna...lots of people and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We went to the Easter Pageant, which I think everyone should see in their lives. 
We told them that we were going to wait out the duration to see him. We became fast friends with Raegan, as we shared similar interests. Her family left, but we told her she needed to hang with us.
After about an hour, the crowd started dwindling... Archie's manager RAY came out ( at the time I didn't realize it was him) and told us we needed to leave, he wasn't there...blah blah blah. I am actually going to edit those details because he was HORRIBLE HORRIBLE to us!!!
What we never got was if he, in fact, was NOT there, why was the security there? And Why was his manager there? They again ALL kept giving us different, unbeleivable info. His manager comes out AGAIN, then says something like "YOU ARE STILL HERE?" What kind of psycho freaks are still here?"
I don't remember all the details of EVERYTHING he said, just the way he made us all feel. He made us all feel like dirt. He kept telling us to respect his privacy and not to be the people that we are. I know that after the fact we all said we were close to tears. This guy was going OFF on us. I could NOT beleive that his manager was so ruthless and meanspirited. We were doing nothing illegal, we weren't being loud ( I know, hard to beleive) or crossing ANY lines.
Did he know his client, was, DAVID ARCHULETTA? Did he know the kind of crowds that followed him? If David knew what was happening, would he let it happen? RAY kept saying something like David was afraid to come out. He just kept going OFF and off and telling us we were so out of line.
Finally Raegan, got up some courage and started responding to RAY. She was saying I don't think we are doing anything wrong, we know David came out and saw people in BOISE ( there was a man there who confirmed that the SAME stuff happened at the concert in BOISE, manager came out, said he was gone...then David comes out and talks with everyone).
So, we waited some more. LONG story short, the manager comes out again and tells us that we are bad people ( I actually had tears in my eyes). Then, a COP comes out and says "I think you should go home now."
So, our friend Reagan is there by herself and we know we can't leave her there. So, we tell her to get in the car (where at this point the cop is pushing us away and we are trying to tell him to hold up while we figure things out). Reagan starts crying, then calls her mom. ( skipping so much it isn't even funny)
My mom is there at that point and drives with us to the temple to meet her mom cause everyone knows where the temple is. We wait for FOREVER (her mom is at the after party).
Her mom shows up in a car and says thanks. Then, Kaylie all of a sudden says " I think that is David's Dad in the car". " are we delusional now?' I kept saying that was impossible.
If Raegan knew them, then why was she waiting. So, we have to go home (and our place is RIGHT by the venue) when we see Reagan's car pull in front of us and right to David's bus. At this point, we were so confused, freaked out and just crazy we did not know what was going on. So, we followed. (I forgot to mention she gave us her cell number, we went through alot). Come to find out it WAS David's dad ( we still don't know how he was in their car and the connection.
We were DONE at this point so just decided to go home (Reagan never met him, he was ASLEEP apparently).
Part 2 of the end of the night---yes there is more!!
Mom is driving the car right in front of where we were suppose to be and all of a sudden--she BLACKS out!! (NOT KIDDING). She forgets she is at the wheel, isn't driving and starts asking where she is. I actually slap her across the face and say STOP, push the break!!!!
She is so out of it, we weren't going that fast....so I jumped out of the car, ran around and jumped on the break and on her. (COME TO FIND OUT WHILE AT THE TEMPLE LOT WAITING SHE TOOK A SLEEPING PILL)--we found that out later of course.
I tell Kaylie at this point to take mom inside while I park the car, and Jessica to stay with me cause I didn't want to be alone.
We park across the street when we see a cop pull up. NO CLUE WHAT HE WANTS OR WHY HE IS THERE. He stopped his car to the side of us, blocking us from walking across the street. We get out, he gets out. Then he says "are you guys coming from the concert?" We, of course say "NO." He says" good, cause this car fits the description of a car that was stalking David and we need to find and question those people."
We say we were just headed home....and need to get in...Then he lets us go.
UNBELEIVABLE!!!!---Came inside with a sour taste in our mouths. It felt like the night was ruined and Archie really wasn't that cool if he had a manager like that. We were so upset, going to tears. And, of course, this story no one really beleives, so that doesn't help.
HOW THIS AFFECTS SALT LAKE CONCERT
We did go to the concert in Salt Lake, a little shooken up ( still keeping contact with Reagan). The manager while in St. George said if we had acted differently he would have let us meet him ( if we would have been different, we would not have been there and NEVER could meet him then---DUH). We seriously thought that the manager would see us and make us leave--I wish I could protray just how awful he was to us so we would feel this way.
My sister decided she wanted to be the bigger person and find RAY after the concert and apologize. We had thought it over and realized how we could have come across a little on the scary crazy side (it was just cause no one was there and we were the ONLY ones) and how RAY was really just protecting his client. No matter how poorly he was doing it and how he made us feel, we should apologize.
So, we found him AFTER the concert and he remembered us. We actually had a nice chat and said we were sorry we were a little crazy. (TO PUT IT SHORT)
LONG STORY SHORT---we still love ARchie, this is the longest post ever. Still a little at odds with his manager, but aren't afraid to go to his concerts anymore!!
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