Football and Birthdays

Go Cougars!

Mei Lings and my birthday gifts.

Henry comes to all our parties.

The Circus

Daniel and Jessica invited us on a double date to go to the circus up in SLC. It was a lot of fun although Matt HATED the clowns.

that’s about it. I enjoyed it!

So this one time when we waited for ten years.

We went to eat at Texas Roadhouse. I love their rolls. And we waited. And Waited. And waited. And waited. Matt’s dad was not happy. Don’t blame him though. We should have pulled the diabetic card.

Anyway, though, we decided to kill some time by taking some pictures.

I especially like the ones where me and Matts heads are combined.

Seven Peaks.

These are the pictures of them going down the big scary slides that I wouldn’t go down.

They all look so great in these pictures.

Matt is proud of himself…I think

The Owlz Game

Our neighbors, Jenny, Henry and Randy were going to the Owlz game. They said there would be fireworks for Labor Day so Matt and I decided to join them.

Henry is probably traumatized.

Awww, isn’t he cute? He is fascinated by Matt. Anytime they are in the same room Henry likes to watch to see what Matt is doing. It’s pretty funny.

That’s my sweetie!! It started to rain in the middle so we thought about leaving but decided to stay for the fireworks anyway. I was glad that I wore a sweatshirt!

The Buck Family.

And us, of course. Isn’t Matt getting way better at smiling for the camera?

The Lost Gift

that I found.

Go Marching Band!

Hopes were high as we prepared the week before to meet our rivals, the Utes. We wore blue all week, egged Utah cars and ate blue brownies. Okay, we didn’t really do any of that, but we were excited for the game against Utah. We got to the game 40 minutes early and watched as the teams prepared. I went down to the field to sign Matt up to shoot the cannon. We got the second score. I was excited. At last, my love would get to shoot the cannon on what was sure to be a good game.

We found our seats on the other side of the field and enjoyed watching and talking before the game. While I was signing Matt up to shoot the cannon there was a giant line of ROTC men holding the flag. The line went all the way up the stairs in the back. It was a cool sight. Because it was so long, if we wanted to go through that area we went under the flag. Hopefully that was not disrespectful!

They then did this big thing about our Independence! And we all sang the national anthem. I thought there was supposed to be a flyover, especially since my students and I saw them preparing the day before, but alas, I guess it was a no go.

I thought it was cool how they refolded it.

Since it was the Deseret First Duel, Deseret Bank sponsored Pom-Poms for a majority of the student sections. It was kind of neat to see them flicking at the same times to the songs. Matt, of course, LOVED his. I couldn’t get him to put it down ALL night!

And, of course, since the theme this year is to “Rise Up,” there were a million banners saying jut that.

And I was pleasantly surprised to have fireworks! They were really cool looking!

It was definitely a great start to the game. Probably the best I had been to. We, the fans, were pumped and ready for the game…

That Started Bad.

And Ended worse.

So instead of talking about the game, I will talk about the highlights.

Number One: The beautiful sunset behind Lavell Edwards Stadium.

Number Two: We did score. And Matt got to shoot the cannon.

Unfortunately, I was too busy jumping up and down in the air to get a picture of Matt pulling the rope. sorry…

Number Three: The BYU Marching band. By far, the coolest part of the night. They made a man on the field and had him walk. It was SO cool. I forgot to take a picture and couldn’t find one on the internet.

Number Four: Good company.

This must be after 5 fumbles.

Some friends from the pool.

Anyway, the game was four hours long…and it felt longer, unfortunately. It was only embarrassing when we were losing by 3 touchdowns. After, that I was just numb to it all. But, being the awesome fans that we are, we stayed the entire game.

Pretty much sum s it u.

7 fumbles. Whoops. Better luck next year I guess.