Well, the weekend has come and gone. It was so nice to have my family here for a few days. It was kind of a whirlwind, but I enjoyed getting to spend time with them. So here's the rundown...
Friday my parents and sister picked me up at work and we grabbed dinner. Then we went over to the BYU campus and went to the new football training building. They have this big museum area in the atrium where you can see Ty Detmer's Heisman trophy, all the National Championship memoriabilia and tons of other displays for different athletes in school history. Very cool.
After that, we went to the Homecoming Spectacular at the Marriott Center where Rick, Erin and Ben joined us just in time after driving down from Idaho. There are some very talented performing groups at the Y. The Living Legends, Young Ambassadors and Ballroom Dance Company all performed. They also had the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square. The music was beautiful. My favorite was when the choir and orchestra performed "If You Could Hie to Kolob" with the ballroom dancers. Fabulous.
Saturday, game day!!! Rick, Erin, Ben and I went out for pancakes and then met the rest of the family at their hotel and we all headed to Provo for the game. We managed to make it through the traffic, find a parking spot and get to our seats in time for kick-off. Ben was so cute... he was playing peek-a-boo with my BYU hat in the car.
What a great game! Despite the pouring rain that started towards the end of the 3rd, it was awesome. I was the only one that stuck it out to the very end in the stands, however. Even my parents took off with a few seconds left on the clock. I pride myself on being a hardcore fan ;) Here's a shot I got of the first touchdown of the game.
And Ben, enjoying his first game. He loved the colors, the action and the noise. Especially when everyone in the stands would start stomping and shouting on kick-offs and 3rd downs. He was so cute!
After the game (which we won 31-6. Yay!), and fighting through the post-game traffic, we had a family dinner and then Nicole and I met some of her friends from when she was in Choralaries (am I spelling that right? Probably not) at Weber and we saw Transformers on IMAX. I loved it the first time I saw it, but it's awesome at such a huge size!
Sunday was just a visiting day, and then Rick, Erin and Ben headed home. And yesterday my parents and Nicole took off. Sigh. Visiting time is over :( But they'll be back out again in December for Rick's graduation and my cousin's wedding. More pictures from the weekend are here.
Oh, and my Avs? Still rocking the pre-season. Can't wait until the regular season opens on Sunday afternoon. Yay for Autumn and the commencement of good TV and awesome sports. Yay for hockey!
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