Sunday, September 13, 2009

"Worth Every Nickel"

These are the words spoken by Paul about our Dallas, Texas getaway last weekend to go watch the first BYU football game of the season against Oklahoma in the new Dallas Cowboys stadium. We stayed in the Gaylord Hotel (pictured in the first 3 pictures). This place was amazing, it was built and decorated in true Texan style!

Here are all of the studs (hee, hee)...Paul and 2 of my brother-in-laws, Rob and Ryan.

And here are the wives of the above men, Jessica and Wendy. I am holding Hallie. She was as nervous as I was about the man sitting next to me. Yes, he is real and it is his job to sit there all day on this bench at the resort and look like a statue. Then, of course scare you to pieces when you take a seat next to him on the bench. Well, it worked!

Here we all are at Risky's BBQ at the stockyards before the game eating lunch. Yum! I think I put on 5 lbs last weekend just eating all the tasty food and treats. Its amazing how good food taste when you aren't wrestling with a 2 year old on your lap the whole time.

Paul is totally stoked for the game! The stadium was incredible! It holds over 85,000 people and has a huge flat screen TV that is 60 yds wide. The flat screen cost more alone then the entire last Dallas Cowboy stadium.
We were in awe when we found our seats. Just 10 rows up from the field on the 30 yd line. I am still laughing about what one BYU fan sitting next to us said. Jerry Jones (the man who built the stadium) walked out onto the field in front of us. Everyone stood up and started clapping. This BYU fan yells out,"Hey Jerry, we love your great and spacious building!" Pretty funny!
This is me with Jessica and Allison Newitt. We had a good hour to kill before the game started, so we got all of our kids BYU or Dallas Cowboy stuff.

The game was awesome! I know my boys are still upset that I got to go and they didn't but I had a blast. As you all know (or should at least) we won! If Paul was writing this he would tell you all about it, but I just know the score was 14-13.

This is after the game, everyone is going crazy. The football team is doing their little jig and the police are trying to keep everyone off the field.

Here we are celebrating! The football season is in full swing and Paul has already watched the game twice again. Yes, he is obsessed and he knows it. This is going to be a fun season. Our house is full of anxious fans that are very excited for the upcoming games. GO COUGARS!

6 comments:

Danielle Thompson said...

My husband is coveting your trip... that was an incredible game! We too are looking forward to a football season of winning!

Kristen said...

I was hoping for the arm pit hair story.

Elder Bryson Ritchie said...

I'd should have included it, lets just say that cheerleaders need to be very diligent at shaving when they are on that big of a screen!

Candy said...

haha! what is the arm pit hair story? poor girl!
And what a very fun trip! You and Paul are such a cute couple and you are so pretty.
It was a very good game! Go BYU!

Brady and Karen said...

Brady won't delete the game from TiVo.

Which cheerleaders?

Love your yellow purse.

Scott and Natalie said...

Um... can someone please explain FSU?