friends in high places

It pays to know the right people!
Saturday night Jake and I went to a Utah Blaze arena football game. Three of the guys Jake worked with when he worked for the Grizzlies (hockey team) moved over to the Blaze, so Jake was able to get free tickets from them. Our seats were on the 25 yd line (if your not familiar with arena football this is mid- field) and we were only 4 rows up! The tickets were $110 and they gave us wristbands for the VIP dinner before the game. It was amazing! We could see everything, right down to the expression on the players faces and you could hear the helmets hitting. Unfortunately we were a little too close to the action for a girl that was sitting 3 row in front of us. She was on the front row and one of the passes came right over the receivers hands and hit her right in the head. We didn't see exactly everything that happened, but she was knocked out cold and they had to take her out of the arena on a stretcher with a backboard and a neck brace- I think this was just a precaution. The players were really cool about the whole thing. The Chicago rush defender looked over the side and could tell that she was hurt so he called for people to come over and help. The Blaze team also autographed a football and gave it to her. I'm sure this was a game she will never forget! You never expect this at a football game, I think that it made a lot of people more aware. There was one family that was just the row behind the girl that had some young kids that moved during half time.

Even with all the drama it was a really exciting game. The Blaze won the game with a field goal in the last few seconds!

It was a great night! Thanks Dave, Ryan and Michael!

family fun

So I have been a little behind on my blogging lately. You know how they say time flies when your having fun? Well I think time flies even faster when you are busy. It seems like I never have enough time to get everything done lately and blogging is what tends to get left out.

We have had a fun couple of week though. On the 8th Jake was able to get free tickets to the Albuquerque Isotopes/Salt Lake Bees baseball game, and who can pass up free! It was a fun game. The Isotopes had won the first two games so I guess the bees were due a win, but the Isotopes were thoroughly trounced! We left during the 8th inning when the Isotopes were down by 6 or 7 runs. We figured the game was over and we wanted to beat the traffic!
We did end up with a souvenir ball though. Just after we got to the game, the Isotopes hit a ball almost to the fence where we were sitting. Jake was yelling so loud the outfielder looked up to see what was going on. After the play was over the bees player tossed the ball over the fence to us. The girls thought it was great and both Christena and Savannah have taken the ball for show and tell.
Next was Mother's Day. I always love mother's day. A whole day of Jake telling me to sit down and put my feet up and relax. Jake fixed dinner and then we went and visited Jake's grandma and mom. It was a nice day. The kids were really cute with their presents. Olyvia gave me some new ponytails to use in her hair (her words), and Savannah gave me some bright red fingernail polish, again I think it was more for her. Christena gave me a box of chocolates and believe me those are for me. I hid them so the kids couldn't find them and eat them all.

I hope all the rest of you mom's also had a great mother's day.

Lastly, Friday night we had my niece Karyn stay the nght with us while her parents were in Las Vegas for a wedding. I survived 5 girls friday night and so saturday we went to the park for a picnic lunch and to let them get rid of some energy. Here are some pics from the park.

Juliana is enjoying her Capri Sun, she was exhausted, but not about to miss out on any of the fun!
Savannah is riding a lion.
Does this mean Christena is a tree hugger?
All the girls took turns taking pictures with my camera. Olyvia liked taking close ups of her face! She had some other lovely ones of up her nose, and she tried to take one of her tongue-the silly girl!

For all of the husbands out there- Jake got tired of me taking over the blog so he has started his own sports blog where anyone who is interested can read his rantings and ravings and add their own comments. I will try to post a link to his blog soon, although it may be a few days before I get the chance, I think the blog site is sportsblogger.jake.blogspot.com it may just be sportblogger (w/o the "s"). If any one is interested!