Switchfoot Bro Am 10th Anniversary

If you know me in person, which you may not... You know I'm a huge Switchfoot fan!!! I've been following them and watching them in concerts since late 90's... (first album release was '97). Anyway... I've seen them many many times. In November of 1999 they opened for Delirious in San Diego, Ca. A couple of friends and I attended this concert. As we were driving, we were lost. This is not unusual for me as I am super directionally challenged. I am that mom with 5 tired kids walking around the zoo parking lot, clicking my unlock button on my van key ring. Really... I am! I digress... Anyway, I prayed. I know it sounds silly. We were lost and just didnt know where we were. I prayed God would send someone with a Switchfoot or Delirious bumper sticker. A red SUV/Suburban pulls up next to us. We roll down our window and ask if they are attending the concert. He said yes! We asked if we could follow him and he said yes again. Let me remind you that this was way before GPS's were invented. We had to use a Tomas Brothers map, and well Thomas and his brothers and I just don't get along. We were so excited. God answered our prayers with a YES!!!! We were so blessed to be able to follow someone. So as we are following, he waves us through the private security parking and into the secure parking. As we get out we see him unloading a drum set and realize he is apart of the band. We giggled off as giddy as can be. We somehow knew he was the dad of one of the members of Switchfoot.
Let's fast forward... all these years I have always wanted to say Thank you. I think I sent an email at one point in time. Yesterday at Switchfoot's 10th Anniversary Bro Am it became a reality. I was coming out of the restroom and Jon Foreman talking to a couple. I waited. When he was finished I approached him and told him the story. (maybe took a picture too, lol) Since I knew the kind of car and color, he told me it was his dad that did that. He thanked me for telling him the story.
 The story gets better... 
At one point they announce that his dad was at the Bro Am. See I'm not a shy girl. I have no problem talking to anyone, even celebrities :). So I saw him at one point and went near him and waited for him to be available. I introduced myself and told him I have a story for you. After I told him the story, he equated it to the story in the Bible where 10 lepers were healed and one came back to say thank you. That just warms my heart. I'm sure we weren't the only ones he has helped in his day. (I may or may not have gotten a picture with him as well) See at that point in time I had a month previously rededicated my life to Jesus. It was such a divine appointment that I have never forgotten. God is real!!! I am blessed!!!! You never know when God will use you, even for the simplest of things, the smallest measures, to bless someone for years and years. Thank you Mark Foreman, from the bottom of my heart from this directionally challenged girl!!!!

Here's the other part to my day at the Bro Am 10th anniversary. I love to attend as many Switchfoot concerts as I can. However, I may be a loud girl. I can't even count the amount of dirty looks and people who have plugged their ears due to my amazing yelling voice. While I do sing along, I also like to scream (esp. when others aren't, lol). One of my close friends (I consider him one of my brothers) doesn't like me to attend concerts alone, for this very reason. Yesterday... I found my concert partner in crime. He loves the band (not as much as me lol, though he may differ on that opinion) and sings along with me. He goes early with me and waits after to meet the band. Yesterday was his first concert and we managed to get a picture of us with Jon. There aren't many people who get a picture of themselves with anyone from the band, at their first concert. I may be a little excited for him.We also got pre sale tickets to their next San Diego concert. We got them before it was announced!!!
Back to my concert partner in crime. Yesterday was no exception to the dirty looks. However, I knew that I was safe!!! I felt like I had a body guard lol. All day he was a gentleman. He didn't care or get embarrassed of my craziness. I truly enjoyed my time with him and my time watching the entire surf contest and the concert.
I have so many good memories at Switchfoot concerts. They are fantastic in concert!!! They are down to earth real life people. I took my oldest to see them as her first concert. I've gone with other friends. I was ushered in by Mark Foreman all those years ago. I took Nicholas to his first concert :) I will continue to support Switchfoot and yell my crazy head off at every concert I am blessed to attend!!!
Cheers Nicholas to our next concert adventure!!!!!

Jon Foreman and I

Mark Foreman and I

My concert partner and I, first thing int he morning. We were among the first to get there.

Surf footage

Concert footage

My phone uploaded the pictures and now I can't edit to add captions.. So after the concert footage is a picture of Jon Foreman, Nicholas and I. Then is a picture of our next Switchfoot adventure and a picture of Nicholas' first concert ticket purchase.