Behid the Scenes: Beyond 5

When I was preparing to write this post about Beyond 5, I had to interview the guys to get their take on the process of what they were doing.  So we arranged for them to come over for breakfast one morning.

Which was not something I was allowed to say "out loud" at the time because apparently they were receiving a lot of request for exactly that from quite a few people, but they like the way I wrote and wanted to work with me.

So I prepped breakfast, swore my die hard fangirl daughters to secret, sent them to school, because no, you can't stay for this, and went to my early morning math class.

When I got home I sat down with the boys and their manager and we talked.

And then we did a photoshoot for advertising of the blog.  I spread the pictures on my social media best I could, but really, now that we're a few years out from it, wanted to clean this pictures out of my phone.

So, the day I had a boy band over for breakfast.

 

And made them do some porch pictures, because that's what we do here in The Circus.

 And then the time I got some of my neighbors to go to one of their concerts with us.

Makenzie, me, Gail, Gail's two friends, Gail's mom Belle.

 And the logo that I designed for the fanclub that was running rampant.

 As well as the version that we made for the guys.

The moment we gave the shirts to the guys (and the fun the girls had afterwards spotting them wearing those shirts on social media afterward.

And two of my most favorite shots of why I really supported those guys as a mother.

Ammon

Zac

They've all served missions (minus TJ who is not LDS) and returned home again.  While I unfriended them all on facebook, we still have some Instagram interaction going on.  Basically, I've said it before and I say it again, I really like to support good people who are doing good things.

And these boys were/are.

Thankful. Faithful.

To, not only the guys in Beyond 5, but the entire team who are behind them as well:

Thank you.

I'm coming to you, right now, not as a fan, though I certainly am, and not even as a blogger, though I am that as well, but as a mom. 

I find myself in the situation where I'm the only parent my daughters have who is living the gospel.  Sometimes, when I sit back and think about that, the weight of it panics me a little bit. I know that no other parental figure in their life is teaching them the peace of the gospel.  Not by word, and not by example.

I'm it.

I'm far from perfect as a parent in general, and I know where my short-comings lie.  I think that's where my panic stems from.  With all my flaws as a parent, and let's face it, as a person in general, how can my voice alone be enough to counter all the other parental voices guiding them in their lives?

So I want to thank you.  I want to thank you for making the gospel cool in their eyes.  I want to thank you for your solid examples in the public eye, and for your kind words in private.  I want to thank you for putting music out that doesn't make me cringe, knowing my daughters are listening to it.  

And I want to thank you for your Faithful album.

The Faithful album that has been downloaded onto every single iPod in our house.  The Faithful album that is being hummed while hair is being brushed, and dishes are being washed.  The Faithful album that is pouring out of headphones and speakers at every turn I make in my home, and even in my car.  

I want to thank you for filling my daughters' lives with the spirit.

And for reaffirming that spirituality is fun, and very cool.

Because it is.

And they're getting it.

And I even want to thank you for giving me a little bit of that credit in their eyes.  The mom who first introduced them to their favorite band.  The mom who endorses such music.  The mom who gets how cool it is that these boys are putting this, this, music out.

Where ever else your lives take you, please know that you have left a solid impression on more people than you will ever know.  You once told me, in a sense, that you wanted to leave the world better than when you found it by the music you put out.

I'm here to tell you that you have done exactly that.

 And as a mom, I thank you for it.

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This is not a sponsored post, but one that I genuinely feel.

If you'd like to find out more about Beyond 5's Faithful album you can find it 

HERE on Amazon 

HERE on Your LDS Music Store

It will be released tomorrow, October 10th, but you can pre-order it now if you want to.

 

Beyond 5 Concert Pictures