We're Back (Actually We Never Left)

Well, January came and went. I think mom was right when she said time goes by faster as we get older. That being the case, the folks must be wondering where November went right about now. :)

Time to play catch-up!

Shelly and Anna took the kids on their annual M.L. King holiday weekend to a hotel with a pool.


This year it was the Best Western in Lehi, conveniently located near a Target!

We spent a night playing games with our friends The Halls which was fun. Any excuse to play "Ticket To Ride"

We did take the opportunity a sunny day provided to try Rylan's "Rip Stick" that he got for Christmas. Shelly cheated a little on it!


Super Bowl Sunday the Johnson's came over for the annual "Commercial Party." We tried the new pizzas that Domino's has. The new HAWAIIAN and VEGETARIAN are both very good! The best part of the day, however, was the gift that my friend J.R. gave me, a University of Utah football helmet.

We ate lots of junk food, Shelly hooked us up as she always does. Happily the game was great to watch, and in my opinion Dorito's won the commercial bowl!

Ry's Big Day

Today was a big day for the Ry-Guy!

It started off by getting his splint off and a cast put on his broken arm. He thought it was "weird" when the splint came off, he just kept touching the spot where it was broken.

The best part was when Scott (The guy putting the cast on Ry's arm) tried making a "U" out of white cast material to put on the cast.Sadly, the "U" stuck for a short while, but the red part of the cast had dried too much and the white part didn't have the adhesiveness required to stay on. We attempted to glue, but the porous nature of the fiberglass made that not work.

One of the reasons that Ry wanted to have the "U" on there was because we had tickets to the big UofU vs. Oregon State football game tonight.

Rylan was sooo excited to be going to his first Utes football game. (I was pretty excited to take him, I'll admit it!)

We got there early by parking downtown and taking TRAX to the stadium. I don't know how I ever tried to deal with parking back in the day, the TRAX is Soooo much easier.

I thought because we were on the 40th row of the north end-zone that the view would suck, but as you can tell by the picture of Ry and I before the game, goal posts aren't that far down.

One of the "small world" parts of this night was when I hear this guy being a bit goofy behind us, as I turned around, 3 rows back was Uncle Tim.

As far as the game itself.... WOW! What A Fantastic Game. A Sellout Crowd of 45,599, the 3rd larges crowd in history. It was just fun to watch Rylan get all excited and listen to him cheering for his favorite team!


The game was great, one of, if not THE best football game I've ever attended, but even better than that was being able to spend time with my little man. Father-Son night is just the BEST!