The Best Part of Superbowl

Now, it’s no big secret that many in our family dropped off the Superbowl wagon train a while back, as the players became increasingly disrespectful to the American flag and our country.

Nope, never going to have room for that sort of thing.

However, after careful observance we did notice that the main players were becoming a lot more patriotic and some even promoted Christianity openly. Well, well, well. You have my attention.

So it is with guarded optimism that we prepared for Superbowl this year–at long last.

Now, the FOOD. You may notice immediately, a distinct lack of….ummm…shall we say…

junk food?

Yes, it’s true. After all, if I intend to live forever–which I do–then I decided to act a bit more like it with the snacks.

I made seasoned lean hamburger with mustard and chopped pickles. Yum.

Tried my hand at Deviled Eggs. They were luscious–that is until I got an egg shell and it wrecked the whole experience. Gak. But before that…yum.

Ranch cucumbers and peanut butter celery. Yum.

Lastly, kiwi with raspberries and Cheddar Pickles. When I said they are addicting…I wasn’t kidding. Yum and double yum.

Since the snacks are usually the best part of the event–it’s what I decided to focus on–since the game turned out to be kinda dreadful…for Patriot fans anyway. Without Tom Brady, what’s to watch? Haha.

I could be scooching over to the Seahawks any day now. We’ll see.

In the meantime, I was thoroughly entertained….

with the food.

Cosmo

Oooooh, our BYU team is doing GREAT this year!!!

So great, in fact, that I was totally inspired to make this cute little fellow right here.

In case you aren’t from around these parts…

and don’t recognize…

this dude…

his name is COSMO!!

Go BYU!!

 

 

Go to my Gracious Rain Shop on Esty to find this and other awesome stuff!

Tending the Littles

Dane, Kortney and Merrick went to the BYU game tonight and I got to tend the other little ones.

It was pretty quiet because they were in bed when I got there. It was so quiet that I started texting Chomp who was tending Jillian’s kids–for the same game.

Then this sweet little thing got up saying she didn’t feel good so she slept down here by me.

Being a Grammy is pretty dang awesome. I’m soooo lucky.

Such sweet kids…all of them.

Rise and Shout

 

I haven’t been to a BYU game in a million years!

We had great seats but oh myyyyyy were they ever high up at the top of about a million stairs!

Dane even got a CougarTail…

which he was pretty excited about!

Don’t worry–he shared with all of us!

It doesn’t show so much here but it was a very bright…

very sunny day and we were pretty dang excited when the sun…

finally, finally went down behind the front stadium.

Ahhhhhh–

at last we could watch the game without shading our eyes from the glare.

On top of the great football loving company–we even WON!!

Go COUGARS!!!

 

 

My Boy’s Bucket List

When my Daney-boy told me that he was taking is sweet little family to Boston–AND to his first actual Patriot’s game–well, I knew something special was in order. I grabbed the appropriate colors of my favorite Caron yarn and got to work. With three different patterns and some embroidered patches from Ebay, Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear had some awesome new hats for the special day.

As you can see–they were a hit!!

Of course the Patriot’s did their part too and put on an unforgettable show right where my boy could see it, up close. Good job, Tom Brady!

Colts 24 / Patriot’s 38

“Take family to Patriot’s game–”

check.

Happiness–

double check.