"A Utah Fan am I"

If you can't tell, we are University of Utah fans. Jake and I have each been able to attend a football game with my dad. Each time, Ellie has asked if she could go. Finally came the game my dad could attend, Utah vs. Washington State. When we told Ellie we were going to a game, she was so excited. Although the game was a blow out, the girls really enjoyed being at the game.

 

The family that sits around us really loved the girls. We had such a good time.

 

I had Jake and the girls pose for this picture and apparently the TV camera guy behind us thought the picture was cute because he snapped one too and used it at the end of the game. They were on TV. Luckily fellow Utah fans from Denver were watching the game and told us.  



 

Proud daddy, happy Sammi, and cheeser Ellie.

 The family behind us took this shot.

The next week, we went to a Utah basketball game with Poppy DeVon. Again, the girls had a blast. Ellie ran every where and danced to ever song. Poppy DeVon, along with help from my Uncle Russ, was able to catch a ball thrown into the stands. Ellie loved it.

Maybe soon Ellie will be able to sing the Utah man song. Go Utes!

Sports Dates

A couple of weeks ago, a co-worker of Jake's had some Denver Nuggets tickets that he couldn't use and gave them to Jake. So we went on a date; a quick dinner and then the Nuggets. Neither one of us is a big fan of professional basketball but a date night is a date night right? The night turned out a little more exciting than we would have ever thought.
I believe the game was against the Toronto Raptors. The seats were great seats, around row 20 in the lower bowl. Across the aisle and a couple rows below us sat a couple of ladies (black ladies) with jerseys supporting the away team. As the game progressed the really drunk frat like boys a couple rows in front of us started harassing the women pretty bad. The guys (also black) sitting next to us made some comments about how black women never show up to sporting events without husbands/boyfriends and started joking with Jake about how this would turn out. Turns out, they were right. Shortly one of the women's husbands showed up to have a polite conversation with the "frat boys".

To shorten this story, event staff showed up several times and eventually the other woman's man came over, with child in arms, and slapped one of the "frat boys". Turned out to be a decent fight, cops and everything. Shortly after that, there was a fight on the court also. Jake made the co-worker cookies to thank him for the tickets.

Well, this week, Jake received tickets to a DU hockey game. any bets on if there will be more fights there?

Utah Basketball

We went with Poppy DeVon to another basketball game.  This time in addition to sitting with my Uncle Russ, Stef came along (Russ didn't have someone to fill his other seat).  Ellie either really likes basketball or it fun to walk all around the Huntsman Center. She will sit and watch about the first 15 minutes and then play around for another 10-15 before she wants to go up top and walk around to visit Grandma Wendy and Grandma Great Bonnie.

She loves dancing to the music they play during time outs and at halftime. Sadly the Running Utes aren't pulling a huge crowd but I am ok with this as Ellie can just run free around the hallways. This game the mini donut guy was at the game. He make great little donuts. He is normally stationed right next to where my mom works so during one of Ellie's adventures to visit Grandma we walked by. Well one of the teams took a time out and the music started. Of course Ellie started dancing right in the middle of the walkway.  The donut guy thought that was so cute that he gave Ellie and I a free sample of a donut.

She also enjoys climbing all over the seats. This game we found Swoop (the mascot). Ellie loved Mickey so we went to have a picture taken with Swoop.  She walked right up to him and then Swoop bent down and she came running back to me.

She was ok with being next to him and touching him if I was right there. It was hilarious because she was making this sound that was hard to tell if she was laughing or starting to cry. She was a good sport about having her picture taken as long as she was on the outside away from Swoop. It was a fun night.