Happy Birthday to...

... ME! Well, as my mom so kindly informed me, I am now closer to 40 than 30. Thanks. When my mom was 36 she had two teenagers - I was 16 and my sister was about to turn 14. Atleast I still have another month before I have an official teenager! It was a fun, busy day. Jared made me a delish breakfast - best. eggs. ever. Not even kidding. Then we headed off to Bryson's basketball game. He was so excited that he scored a basket for me on my birthday! Thanks little buddy. Then, about as quickly as we got home, we hurried and got ready to head to the BYU game. Some nice people in our ward gave us tickets. We took the boys with us, but the girls didn't really want to come.

We arrived a little bit early, and peeked over the gate to see the players warming up.

We grabbed some hot dogs for the boys, and Jared said "Hey, I'll be right back." The boys and I waited... and waited... and waited... then finally gave up on the wait and headed up to our seats. Apparently Jared ended up selling our extra tickets. It just took him a little longer than he had anticipated. The Cougars had already scored by the time we found eachother and our seats.

I love football games. I love the crispness in the air (however, today was WARM), I love the cheering crowds, the cheerleaders leading the cheering crowds, the funny mascots (my kids LOVE Cosmo), the band playing, all of it!

It had been a while since I had been to a BYU game, however, and I had forgotten what a beautiful view you have from the stadium.

My boys LOVE seeing Cosmo. They think he is super cool.

Here we all are, having a great time.

It wasn't long, however, before ONE of us (who shall remain nameless - but not pictureless) was B.O.R.E.D! We told him he wasn't allowed to ask how much longer... so he suffered in silence.

At half-time, we went for a walk. That helped "Mr. Bored" a little bit.

We got the boys some popcorn on the way back in, hoping it would keep them happy through the next little bit of the game. It helped.

Don't know if you noticed the scoreboard in that last picture. But here is what we were seeing through the majority of the game. Quarterback Jake Heaps with the ball in his hand one minute... then the refs with their hands up the next. Touchdown after touchdown, the Cougs dominated!!

A nice guy behind us offered to take a picture of Jared and Me (since I was NOT getting anything good using the "hold-the-camera-out-as-far-as-possible-and-snap" method. It was a great DAY (thought NOT a great HAIR day, so don't judge ;)

We left just before the end of the game, and grabbed a couple of pics with the "cougar."

The rest of my day consisted of a massage (thanks to my sweet sis-in-law who is a massage therapist) then dinner with Jared at the Olive Garden. Then back home to cake that Kaitlyn made. Thanks family for a wonderful day! Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the pretty flowers and earrings that Jared surprised me with that morning. He's so great :)