Rise & Shout...

Last weekend our family headed up to Orem to visit Brady's family and go to "THE GAME." On Friday, Brady got up early and went 4 wheelin with his Dad up the canyon. Ellie and I headed up to the Gateway for a little shopping trip with Jessica. After helping the economy out with some serious spending we headed back down to pick up Brady and head into Provo. Brady's boss had wanted some Quest t-shirts and we needed to pick up our tickets for "the game" so we headed to the BYU bookstore. When we got their I could not believe how enormous it was, you could probably find anything you wanted and then get lost trying to find your way out! After buying new shirts for the game (yes, I bought a BYU shirt, hey, anytime Brady offers new clothes I take him up on it) we headed to the Admin building to visit Brady's Aunt Javan. She works for the philanthropy office and got us the BEST tickets. After a quick visit and a few more gifts (Ellie got a little BYU cheerleader bear that she LOVES) we headed home. That night we meet up with our friends the Tuttles for dinner and shopping. We had so much fun!

Saturday morning we got up early and went golfing with the whole family. The last 4 holes were way fun, once the sun came up and the wind died down. The first 5 were so freezing I thought I was back in Cedar during the winter!! Then it was time to head to head into Cougar Town. We got to the game early and were lucky enough to go to the Donor Luncheon. IT was so fun, we met the President of BYU and his wife, along with the founder of Costco, and, of course, Cosmo.Thanks again Javan, it was so nice of you to invite us and for the awesome tickets.After listening to the band and cheerleaders we headed over to the game. On our way we saw our friends, the Laws. It was so unexpected, but nice to see them for a minute. Then we headed to our seats. We had chair seats of the 45 yd. line 30 rows up. The view was fantastic and so was the crowd. We sat next to #21, Scott Johnson's family. The game was so exciting and we had a great time watching and singing the fight song over and over and over. I had never been to a game that exciting since Rebel basketball in the 90's!! For those of you that know I love UNLV basketball, Brady and I made a deal, I would cheer for BYU football, if he cheered for UNLV basketball!! So far its worked out pretty well.
After the game we went down to pick up Ellie at her Aunt Holly's. She also had a great afternoon filled with Toys R Us, the park, horses, Baby Einstein, and playing with Moab the cat.

The rest of our trip was spent hanging out with family and having a late birthday for me and an early one for Brady. Thanks for all the babysitting this weekend we sure appreciated everything.