Home Sweet Home

This last weekend we got to make it back to Utah for a VERY short visit (36 hours for me:()
However, it was some much needed family time (well I only saw my parents and my Brother's family but any was acceptable). It is funny because I kept saying all week to people "I'm going home this weekend" and everyone kept correcting me and saying ..."don't you live here"... Well yes we do but it doesn't quite feel like home yet...

Saturday I treated my mom to a belated birthday lunch up at Sundance.... it was so nice and such a beautiful drive...

I love the mountains and miss them like crazy!

Isn't my mom beautiful? My sisters Brooke and Kennan ditched me this weekend for other activities so it was just me and my mom. I was bugged about it but truthfully I still had a great time having my mom all to myself.

It was so nice to spend some time with Brad and his family though! It is amazing how fast babies grow up, especially when you live out of town! I couldn't believe how grown up Gabi was and Bella is getting so full! Me and Gabi had some serious Halloween talk going on this trip and she was even nice enough to let me paint both our toes the same color :)

Cute cute Bella!
(don't look at me it was Sunday AFTER church)

And miss Gabi herself... love her...

(if you're wondering where my guy is... we split ways at the airport. He went to his parents for Football games and golf and I to mine for momma time. We reunited for Sunday dinner at my parents, but come on? 36 hours.... how much visiting can you do?)

Raider Nation?

So we went to the Raider's game this past week (cause it was their one and only Monday night game) with some friends from our ward. Let me just say one thing... let us all hope there is never a raider nation.
Besides the fact that the Raiders suck (42-14 Denver) their fans are the most ghetto, trashy people ever. You always are amazed at what type of people come out of the woodwork for Lagoon, trust me the Raider game was 100 x worse. All you hear is the slow, monotone RAI-DERS the whole game and then once we started losing so badly the fans resorted to fighting one another for entertainment. There was more alcohol and weed at the game then a frat party.

Snuggling up at the game... it was really cold.

Our friends Taylor and Lisa

If you look really close, you can see Nate's friend John Madsen. He had one or two catches, way to go Mad Dog.

It was actually really cool to go to an NFL game, I mean where else was someone like me going to see two chicks fight, two fans fight, and a drunk guy fall down the stairwell all in one night? I guess only at a Raider's game...

The BIG HOUSE

After enjoying the wonderful hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Teachout we headed for Ann Arbor for some tailgating and the game. We gathered around the Crimson Club party and I got to say hi to the few Utah cheerleaders I still know (forgot to take pics) and then we headed into the stadium 45 min early.

Boo Yeah!

So Teachout bought all the tickets and ours happened to be 3rd row in the opposite end zone from anyone red. Sweet seats.... just a little scary.

So we we're pretty close to the aisle... but you would have no idea. This is a pic of the aisle. Yup people just standing in it. Apparently the Big House fits a little over 107,000 people (used to be 110,000) and there were 108,000 + people attending that game.

Although our trip was planned around going to the game with Teachout, he opted to sit by his family so Bracken and his girl Beth and us sat together. Needless to say we were the only red shirts in probably 25,000 people. (Notice the red belt of Utah fans on the top rows of the opposite end zone, boo yeah Utah)

Game over :) Bracken did have a Utah shirt on but switched once the game was over to avoid being beat up.

Fun trip... I like being Utah Super fans... and what a great season so far!

Michigan

Now that we're Utah alumni we've transcended to the level of "super" fans so when Nate found out the season opener was at the Big House it was a must... especially since his bestie is from Michigan and a HUGE fan. Nate and Christian we're the official travel planners so the itinerary went like this. Day 1: Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH
Day 2: Game day, ALL day

Day 3: Fly ALL day to save $250

So this amusement park was 3 hours away from our final destination but it was a definite in itinerary.

Christian and his friend, Jackie

There were some seriously amazing rides and it wasn't busy at all... most lines were only like 10-15 min. wait. This was the tallest roller coaster in 2000 and it was amazing.

Before....

On the way down the free fall was awesome but ... shortly after Nate lost his hat :(

This one was the favorite though... and the one with the long (45 min)

Kinda puts Lagoon's Wicked to shame

425 ft tall

0-125 in 4 seconds... best ride ever...