Life is a crazy, amazing, beautiful ride

This past week has been one of the wildest most amazing times of my life! It all started out when I heard that one of my hero's, Keith Urban, was going to be in my city performing a free show!! I was so ecstatic that I couldn't even finish the class I was in, I ran out of there and started working out the plans. It turned out that the first 200 people to buy Keith's new C.D. at the mall would get front of the line passes! So of course I just had to camp out at the mall, starting at midnight to make sure I got that pass. That turned out to be one of the most fun crazy nights I have ever had! We call ourselves the Fab 10 ;) I never knew any of these amazing people before that night and because of Keith we have all come together and are like family to each other now. I have memories from that night that I will forever remember, like dancing to the Cha Cha Slide and the Cadillac Ranch at four in the morning for example :D We were the first people in the store that morning and we all got our passes!!!

After this, we all split up and got ready for the big concert happening the next day. We all showed up at the mall bright and early the next morning to wait for Keith!! :D While waiting we made posters and oh so many memories! Our group was interviewed by a few news crews and we were also live on the local country radio station at one point! Also, prior to this I had entered two different contests for front of the line passes, one through the mall it was being hosted at, and one from Keith Urban's website.... I ended up winning BOTH!!!!!! Luckiest most amazing day of my life!! :D I made a postcard for Keith and just wrote a little blurb in it about how he saved my life with his music and his life story. When we all got let in to where he would be playing I was absolutely shocked by how close to the stage and how close I would be to Keith when he came out!!

When the concert started I felt like I was just in a dream land! I was so close to Keith that if I reached out my hand I could touch him! I never thought I would get that close to him in my life. It was that moment that I noticed... Wow, all my dreams are really coming true!" Seeing him on that stage and watching him play that up close was beyond belief! I started thinking about where my life has been in the past and how truly grateful I am that Keith's music came into my life at the perfect moment to save it. A few short years ago I didn't think moments like the one I was experiencing was even possible. I really didn't think life could be this beautiful! I am so so happy that Keith helped me see what life really is and that it really really is worth living! I have been waiting and hoping I would get to tell Keith in person "Thank you for saving my life" and that moment was soon approaching! After the concert was over it was time for the autographs! When it was my time to go up to him I was in total shock! He reached out for my CD to autograph with one hand and went to shake my hand with the other and said "What's your name sweetheart?" After stumbling over my words I managed to get out "Stephanie". He went to start signing the CD and while he was doing that I said to him "I just want to let you know, your music saved my life" Keith paused for a second, stopped signing my CD and looked up into my eyes. The connection that were in our eyes was like no other connection I have ever felt before. He knew exactly what I meant when I said that because he had also been down the road I had and he just got it. Then he said in a soft voice "I am so glad you are here" at that point the tears just swelled up in my eyes because those few words from him was the most powerful thing that was EVER said to me. What he meant when he said that wasn't that he was glad I was there at the concert, it was him saying he was glad I was alive. For a celebrity like Keith Urban to say that to me was just beyond words especially when the opposite message has been thrown at me before in my life. I walked away from that autograph table truly a different person, and the best part was I got to spend the rest of the evening with my new found family and share my excitement and love for life with them all! :D

Now three days later and I am still flying high and still trying to take everything in!!! I was broadcasted on the news right across Canada, I was on the front page of the biggest Newspapers in my city, and a youtube video from the local radio station was put up of me and some of the other Fab 10 girls yelling out "We love you Keith"!!

I can't wait until September 21st to do it all over again, and have a road trip to see him in Calgary on the 23rd! I am so so so so excited! Can't wait to have another experience like that with the rest of the Fab 10!!!! :D

"It's all we've been giving, so you better start living right now cause days go by!" - Keith Urban

Life is what you make it so what are YOU waiting for?! Go for it because dreams DO come true!!!!