What a good Saturday

We had a really good day on Saturday. It was my Grandma’s birthday. Yep, she turned 39 again (it said so on her cake). Happy Birthday Grandma!!! We had a party at her house, which went great. I was really happy to see my aunt Linda in from California, and my aunt and uncle Janice and Scott in from Oregon. It isn’t that often that we are all together. We were extra lucky in that it was a beautiful day outside. One of the first really good sit-outside days we have had this year. So we were able to take the party outside and have a good time. The food was good, the cake was good, and it was fun. I remember when we used to get together all the time, but it really doesn’t happen much anymore, so it is great to see everyone. Of course we took the opportunity to take family pictures. We got a big one of everyone there, and then broke into smaller families and took those. I got off easy since my family really didn’t have that good of a showing (only 2 of the 5 kids were there) so we didn’t have to do a picture with us. But it was great to see everyone. Jeremy and Stephani (my cousin and his wife) had their new little baby there (such a sweet little thing) and I love their toddler Ross. He is the sweetest cutest little guy. He is a year and a half and was happy to show everyone his shoes. Very cute. We played some bacci ball in the front yard, and I must say that Matt and I beat my brother-in-law Preston and my dad. Yep, we won :-) we were pretty proud of ourselves. I was more amazed than proud! I ended up with a nice sunburn on my hands and some on my face. Matt had a nice red forehead and neck (yep, I am now married to a redneck)

After the party Matt and I set off to Salt Lake to go to the Jazz game. I no longer have the connections I used to, so we actually had to buy these tickets (Sad, I know). Which also means that we are sitting WAY up in the top! But that is where the real fans sit – but anyway – we left from my Grandma’s and we went to the Crown Burger. We have found that it is best to get there before six, then you can park there, eat your combo (they are up to requiring $14 in food! That is a lot!) and still have a lot of time to get to the game. We made it with time to spare and walked over to the Gateway to walk around and watch people before the game. Then we went to the ESA and had to climb way up to the tippy top to watch the game. But it was fun. (made more fun by the fact that the Jazz actually won). We did have this guy behind us that was one of those loud-mouth annoying guys that keeps yelling even when you are pretty sure he has no idea what he is talking about. But there was a funny moment when the little Jr. Jazz Dancers came out to dance, and he got all excited and said “Yeah, this is my favorite part of the game!” then he realized they were like 10 and 11 year olds and had to take back all that he said about them. I thought that was funny.

It was a fun day, a fun party, and a fun game. I was ready for sleep when we got home.