Our turn in Jimmermania

We are HUGE cougar fans right?! So this year when our team has been doing Amazingly! We sat around on Selection Sunday waiting to hear where our boys were gonna play! And wouldn’t you know they were selected to play in Denver the weekend of Boards!! Since Jesse is in 4th tri he didn’t yet have to take the tests meaning we had the weekend off, free to go watch the game of course! Once in a lifetime opportunity, how often in our lives is everything going to line up so perfectly for us to be there, right down to good weather! So we bought our tickets and headed out thursday after school (well after SOME school.. ).

We got a new car seat just for the trip its got more of a reclined position compared to the last forward facing one we purchased and thus was easier for Maia to nap in on the road. So majority of the time she was a happy baby. Since BYU played thursday night and our tickets were for saturday (yes we assumed they’d make it to saturday…and they did DUH) we wanted to be able to watch the game so we stayed over night in Lincoln Nebraska. The Holiday Inn there in downtown is quite nice! And we were on the 14th floor which in itself was pretty cool to us! Great view :)

and some great pizza from Old Chicago that was right next door! (heavenly!)

SO Friday we drove the remaining 7 hours to get to my parents home in Highlands Ranch. It was so sunny and warm! Nearly every time we make a trip to Denver it snows, or in the summer last year it rained and there was a tornado (while we were circling the city in an airplane!!!) so to have great weather the entire time was WONDERFUL!!! I love how sunny it is in Colorado, LOVE IT.
My family has a new dog; a poodle named Melvin. We met him at Christmas but he has not had a haircut since we last saw him so this time around he looked more like a sheep!
 
He has been great with Maia! Poodles don’t exactly have the best reputation with small children but he has been very tolerant of her and likes to play with her. She loved patting his fluffy hair and throwing the ball for him and putting things in his mouth. I’m pretty sure his favorite part about her was that she likes to drop food off of her highchair tray. Especially when she figured out that if she dropped food he would eat it.

Saturday soon came and we worked on our Jimmer shirts and signs for the game!
 
we are definitely a Cougar Fan Family!
Maia stayed home with Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Mandy and Uncle Totty (Scott) while Jesse and I went to the game.
  Pepsi Center-its HUGE and unfortunately no one watching on TV was able to see our awesome sign we were just to high up.
But our Cougars won and it was a great time! We were sitting amongst fans from the first game that decided they were all rooting for Ganzaga mostly because they’d been trailing most of the game! So all the more fun to be loud and cheering “Jimmer, Jimmer!” as well as Heartsock, Emery and Abouo of course!
Then we had a pretty quiet Sunday with my folks before we headed for home monday morning. Sunday Maia liked playing in the backyard with Grandpa Garry and Mandy doing pull ups on the gazebo and watching the fish in the pond (searching for the turtle too!)
  Then she took some time to play piano with mommy ( who hasn’t played for a long time…) But she really enjoys the piano, I hope she keeps that up I didn’t have the patience with myself to keep it up; but Maia loves music so much already. And it would be wonderful to have a piano player in our family.
Monday morning we began the trek home to Iowa, and since it is such a long drive we made the decision to stay in Council Bluffs for the night. While there we were able to have dinner with our friends Sarah and Sean who we know from Provo. It’s fun having friends dotted all over the country. This summer we hope to get to visit with more of them as we are planning quite a long cross country trip to visit family and friends for our break. SO our friends and Fam in CO, UT and ID and Canada and everywhere in between lookout here we come!