The Family Meets Danny Gokey

This afternoon I had the chance to take Scott and the girls with me for a meet and greet with Danny before he signed autographs at the Southern Women’s Show in Charlotte.  Because of the site, I’ve been in more contact lately with some of his management and they were gracious enough to let me meet up with him.  We ended up in a closed cafeteria just outside the showroom and it was very easy-going.  Well, eventually it was.

The girls barely wanted to turn the last corner to see him.  Between nervous laughter they were all but pulling me back or down to the ground.  They were smiling ear to ear but nerves were taking over.  Finally I had to pick Lexi up and take her over.  Danny didn’t spot us behind him until we were nearly at his table but he seemed happy to see us and was glad to finally meet Scott.  He gave him a big handshake and bear hug.  He was wonderful with the girls and told them how beautiful they were.  We all sat down and Danny answered all the questions I had.  We filmed a video and took pictures.

The picture deal was pretty funny though because at first I wanted to get a picture with just the girls and him but they would not do it.  So I went and stood by Danny and they finally ran over. Scott started snapping pictures.  But then I think we all realized at the same time it was kind of awkward because it looked a little like a family Christmas portrait with the wrong guy in it.

AWKWARD

Although it looked awkward it wasn’t awkward and I just asked Scott to get in the picture and Danny was like uh, yeah…let’s get someone else to take the picture.  It was actually funny.  So then we got the picture of all of us.  As you can imagine, pretty epic picture.

Much better!  Don’t be surprised if this is our Christmas card.

We talked a lot about his single and his foundation.  You never have to worry about what to say around him, only that you might not get to say something at all.  He is a talker!  I think we actually made him late for his signing and he asked his people if he would have time to talk to us after the signing and they said yes.  So guess what? We stuck around to talk to him!  We shopped around, ate some dinner and watched the signing as he finished up.

Oh, I did let the girls go through the autograph line when it was slow and he ran out of pictures 🙁  The one thing Lexi wanted was a signed photo like I have.  He promised to get them one at the next time and Lexi agreed to him signing her arm instead.  Emma had already decided that’s what she wanted so it was cute.  Yes,  I realize I’m probably a terrible mother for teaching them all my fangirl ways!  But aren’t they so cute?!

Anyway, after the signing we didn’t get to talk much.  He seemed pretty tired and we made small talk before he was called out to get to the airport.

It was hilarious though at that point because it was more Scott and him just chit-chatting.  They were standing in front of each other both with their arms crossed while I listened.  I really wanted to take a picture of the two of them like that.  They both really hit it off.  When we left Scott said he was a really “real” guy, very down-to-earth and genuine.  Which is exactly what I always say.  Anyway, it was nice that they all got to meet after me being the middle man for so long.

So yeah, pretty simple autograph signing to some, but memorable one for us!