Happy Birthday Dallas

Happy Birthday to Dallas. To celebrate his birthday we let him choose where to go to dinner. He chose none other than Texas Roadhouse Steak house. It was a great time. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the celebration.

This is a picture of Dallas sharing his Birthday treat with Brooke.

And it would not be a birthday celebration at Texas Roadhouse without the obligatory saddle ride and a big Yee Haw.







Happy Birthday Dallas.

The Ball Game(s) Part of the Tradition

Let's just say that--for me--the tradition part of going to the BYU bowl game that I enjoy the most is eating at the buffets. YUM!!! Here are a few photos of us going to a buffet, eating at a buffet or waiting in line as we're anxiously awaiting the chance to enter a buffet.








Here's my absolute favorite part of any buffet--DESSERT!!--although I would never choose to end my meal with what Jeff chose.



We did learn that if you eat with a pregnant woman, you have to find a lot of these signs and she frequently runs inside when she sees one.



There's only one thing more exciting than Glen being able to go to a BYU football bowl game and that is being able to go see a basketball tournament where BYU is playing during the same time and in the same city. The guy was in athletic hog heaven when he learned that he could not only attend the football game, but also TWO basketball games while we were there.

??!!HOORAY!!??

Fortunately for us, Glen's friend Randy Bambrough and his daughter Hannah were in town for the festivities and so they, Jeff and Glen used the 4 basketball tickets the first game while Sarah and I got to go to a movie. Now, that was an EXCELLENT plan!!




The football game was absolutely, freezing cold. We had a hard time walking from the car to the stadium because the 50 mph winds were trying to hold us back. We were hoping for a reprieve from the wind once we got inside, but it felt colder than a meat locker in there as well. Actually a meat locker sounds more appealing because we wouldn't have had to deal with the wind!

For anyone who wishes he or she had been able to go to the game--BE THANKFUL YOU DIDN'T!!! Sitting in an easy chair in the middle of a comfortable room watching T.V. inside a toasty warm house sounds a whole lot better to me! And you wouldn't have those annoying fans sitting in front of you that try to stand up on every single play and block your view.




Mr. Die-Hard Fan tried to make us sit it out until the bitter end, but eventually we girls wore him down and we got to leave halfway through the 4th quarter. BYU was winning by a landslide anyway. Hallelujah!! In-N-Out never looked so good. But, does Sarah need her head examined? She ordered a milk shake at our post-game meal. BRRRRRRRRR!!




As the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end" and this was the case for us. It was sad when Jeff and Sarah had to leave a day before we were ready to go. I ended up using the second set of basketball tickets. Sorry you missed the winning game, Jeff. I was just happy we were sitting indoors and the wind wasn't blowing while watching that event. And Glen was elated that BYU won the tournament.



I tried to turn every Christmas tree we saw into a Kodak moment, but a couple of guys (and maybe one other gal) refused to pose in front of more than two. So, I'll end this blog entry with our Christmas tree photos.

In Keeping With Tradition

At Christmas, and during other holidays, it is often a time for families to take part in specific traditions that mean a lot to the people participating. Our family is no different, and one such tradition that Glen seems to take real seriously at this time of the year is that he goes to whatever bowl game BYU is participating in. This year found us, once again, steeped (definition--to saturate with or subject thoroughly to) in that tradition (definition--time-honored practice).

I guess BYU loves tradition as well because it seems that year after year after year they keep going to the bowl game in Las Vegas and this year was no exception. We are becoming quite familiar with that city as we seem to go there often. This time we were looking forward to having Jeff and Sarah spend most of the week there with us. We've had other family members and friends go with us in years past and it looks like Glen is trying to indoctrinate our newest son-in-law to the annual family tradition by having him participate this year. Sounded like fun to us!

On our way there, we had to make a detour in Orem for a while so that we could tend Rebecca's little girls while she worked for a few hours at the elementary school. She was excited to see a Chick-Fil-A spread all ready for her consumption when she returned home.




Our condo in Las Vegas worked out wonderfully for us to have our individual sleeping and bathroom areas and then have the common kitchen/dining/living room areas where we could be together to talk, eat, play games, watch T.V., etc.






We took advantage of the exercise room a few mornings (sorry no pictures of that) and Jeff and Sarah went out into the inner courtyard to use the hot tub (see Sarah's blog for that photo) and play on the enlarged chess set.



Some of our time was spent shopping.




We watched a couple of very entertaining shows.



Bowling was definitely a highlight--especially when Sarah put a bowling ball under her shirt to see what her pregnant tummy will look like in a few more months (see her blog for that picture).





We definitely avoided any gambling activities and chose going to church and to the temple instead. The temple reminds me of Brooke. Whenever she plays with her building blocks, she always stacks up the blocks into a structure that she calls a temple.



I can see the resemblance!

Happy Birthday To Natalie

Happy Birthday our sweet little grand-daughter. You are getting sooooo BIG!!! We love you.