He. Was. Awesome.

The excitement leading up to this day was ridiculous!

We bought the tickets months ago and at that time October 20th seemed like forever away.

I am certain that I was more excited about this concert than Hannah was.

Not because I wanted to see Justin Bieber's show, although I did.

Not because I was excited to hang out with Stacey, Maddie, Gretchen, and Kiley, although I was.

I was most looking forward to seeing Hannah's reaction.  I was excited to be able to give her this experience and I was excited to watch her face light up when she sees him.

The girls wanted to dress the same.  We decided since everyone there would be wearing Bieber shirts that maybe we would go with the next obvious...purple.

Stacey and Maddie came over around 3:30.  The girls got dressed and we did their hair.

A few weeks ago, at Tyler and Carter's Birthday party, the girls had made a sign for the concert.

They were REAL proud of it!

We actually forgot the sign in the car- which turned out to be for the best considering they would not allow signs in the arena.  So, as we walked in there were mounds and mounds of signs that were on their way to being destroyed.  Probably for the best that the sign remained in the car since the girls would have been pretty upset about tossing that sign.  For once our forgetfulness paid off.  Again, for the best since it was already hard to see with the sheer number of people there jumping around, signs would have made it impossible- gotta give Target Center props for this one!

LOVE THIS PICTURE of the girls!

We went to Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner.  It was a great choice!  Everyone was full but not stuffed and the food was fabulous.  Hannah really wanted to pay for dinner so as far as she knows the dinner cost $1.  (we will work on actually understanding the value of a dollar another day)

Here we are trying to kill sometime before the concert started.

Hannah kept asking me when Kelly Clarkson was coming out to sing :-)  I had to keep reminding her it was Carly Rae Jepsen.

 A little after 7 Carly Rae Jepsen came on.

The girls were full of energy and got up on their chairs and started dancing.

We told the girls that they could get shirts but the lines were outraegous so we decided to wait until the concert started and then figured that one of us could go up while the other stayed on kid duty.

A few songs into Carly's performance we decided it was a good time.

 I went up and got in line.  The line was long for normal circumstances but in the grand scheme of things the line was short so it seemed like a good time.  While I was in line I heard 'Call Me Maybe' starting, within seconds people went running out of line to go back to their seats.  After that song, Carly was done and the house lights were back on.  Next thing you know people were pouring out of the arena making their way to the t-shirt line, getting snacks, using the restroom- thank goodness I was already in line.  By the time I was leaving the line with shirts in hand, I looked back and couldn't even see the back of the line.  YIKES!

The countdown was posted and in 10 minutes the concert was going to start.

When the countdown made it's '2 minutes until showtime' annoucement, we plugged the girls ears with their bright pink earplugs and waited- not paitently.

Hannah was squeezing my hand so tight and bouncing up and down.

He came 'flying' in from the ceiling and landed on the catwalk right in front of us.

He started with his song "All Around the World"

There were fireworks and confetti exploding from the ceiling- the girls (I mean ALL the girls- not just ours) went crazy trying to catch the confetti that was falling- as if Justin himself had been the one to cut it.

You can imagine how loud it was with the fans, mostly girls, screaming with excitement.

Throughout the night he had a few outfit changes.  While he was off stage changing the jumbo screens played videos of him as a young child and videos that played along with the show.  At one point he pretended to dive into the stage and then the screens on the stage showed him swimming around in his clothes, he would then reappear in new clothes.  Very entertaining!

He played the piano, drums and guitar.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear if he had lip synced parts of the show but there were other parts that it was obvious that he was signing live (and a mixture of this during the high-dancing songs).  

It was hard to get good pictures.  He was wearing white most of the night and with the bright lights it was hard to focus the camera.  I so wish I would have been able to bring my 'real camera'.

For part of the show he was lifted in a 'cherry-picker-style-cage' and circled the crowd.

Hannah kept reaching for him, as if she thought she really might be able to touch him.

I asked Hannah to tell me something about the concert that I could put in the blog. This is what she had to say.

"Justin Bieber you look cute and I love you.  And tell him that his face is cute.  I wish I had his phone number.  I had 21 fun at the concert!  My favorite part of the concert was when he singed Be Alright in that big thing."

He sang most of his new songs but did entertain us with a mini-medley of his 'oldies-but-goodies'- or 'junk' songs as Hannah calls them.

Why junk songs? 

According to Hannah "that's just what I call old songs when he has new ones I like."

He ended with Boyfriend and Baby and the place went crazy!

These three were so cute walking out of the concert together.  They just forged ahead and made their way to the car as if their 'mommies' weren't even there.  I love that they have so much fun together!

I would have to say the night was a HUGE SUCCESS!

I guess this is how you cure Bieber fever :-)