Phone Pictures

I always forget that I do use my phone to snap pictures.

After we arrived home from the Fiesta Bowl, we quickly got back into the work and school groove.  On top of work and school, basketball practice started for Beau, and Mom had to travel back to Denver for work. AND Brenley started a Saturday morning Gymnastics class.  I have yet to take a picture of her (shame on me), but I'll leave that for next weekend's post as she is cute in her new leotard!! So.... that leaves us in a little catch up mode that I will describe through phone pictures.

Beau's #1 Fan (and her new pink hippo)

Cool guy in his new Tigers basketball uni before his first game.

These boys look so cool this season.  Going to be a tough season as we are playing in "A" division, but we at least look the part!

Okay, while Mom is certainly not famous, nor does she have a lot of job "perks," I have gotten to meet Trevor Brazile, the 9 time all around national rodeo champion (that was mid December) and I also just  met Mike Leach at the Denver Market show this past week.

Mike Leach, former Texas Tech football coach, signing autographs in his book.

My hair looks good! ha

This is me and Rodeo Champ, Trevor Brazile. I was so sick that day, but I was still going to take a picture!

And here are just two random shots.

Me and my love in Phoenix at the Fiesta Bowl!

This is a manicure that my daughter gave me. I loved every minute of it!! She was so serious about it.

Okay, that is it. 2012 is off to quite a start!

OSU Fiesta Bowl Champions - 2012!

So the big day arrives - New Year's Day - and the day we headed to the airport to begin our journey to the 2012 Tostito's Fiesta Bowl.  Now let me just say.....I was nervous. Not necessarily nervous for the Cowboys, but more nervous that our trip would go okay, provided that we were spending a little chunk of change on this "experience" and anyone that knows me, knows that I have trouble letting go of hard earned "chunks of change!"  But part of me really wanted the experience of this with my two boys and to see my beloved Cowboys in a really HUGE bowl game.

Okay, enough about that..........  I drugged myself up (yep, still struggling with that), we dropped off our sweet Brenley May to Me Ma and Pa Pa (not sure of those three who was more thrilled to be with each other!), and we headed to the Wichita Mid Continent Airport.

Got through security easy. Check.
Flight on-time. Check.
Flight takes off to Denver. Check
Arrive in Denver safely. Check
Next flight leaving Denver for Phoenix......Delayed. Uncheck.
One hour it says.  Okay. That's not terrible. We can still make our dinner plans.
Find out a little later that the Phoenix flight that was supposed to leave an hour before ours ended up getting canceled. Hmm....not good.  Long story short - they have a shortage of crew members - and I'm not talking about the pilot!!

So FINALLY after a long afternoon of waiting, and a super patient 8 year old, we left for Phoenix around 6:45.  We were supposed to be in Phoenix by 6:45.  Just a few HOURS later than scheduled.

That meant dinner with my bestie and her family was failed. We finally got into Phoenix around 8:15. Got the rental car and headed to the hotel. At 9:00, I think, we were eating fast food burgers. By 10:00, we were in our hotel room. Okay, not the best start, but we made it there.

Next morning, we were up and at 'em, and anxious to get to the game, but wait......it didn't start for another 12 hours.  What to do, what to do........  So we swam, we drove around, we took pictures, and then we finally headed to the stadium for the Tostito's Biggest Tailgate Party. It was a ton of fun.  Here are some of our pictures.

My boys!

Little football toss

Cause every cowboy rides a bull!

Hang on, bub!

It was like parting the red sea. Had to make room for the band to walk through the party to the stadium!

And here comes the band!

And to wrap up the mini band parade - Pistol Pete!

Beau got to give Pistol a high five!

Getting ready to go in!

We are in!

Excited boy!

Excited girl!

Here is proof.  We are here!

Channeling a little WWE wrestler poses

Go Cowboys!

This was his idea.  He loved the fire.

My boy.

 Okay.  Now I am going to stop this entry and start a new entry with pictures from the game.  This was getting too long.  And the game pictures were cool!

THE Game

And now we are inside the stadium.  Did I mention my new camera?  Totally worth hauling with us.  We got amazing pictures from really nose bleed seats. But we didn't mind.  It was The.Best.Time.Ever!

And two things kind of confuse me toward the end......1) it was such an emotional game, sometimes I remembered to take pictures and sometimes I didn't.  And 2) if you remember we thought we won the OT when we scored a touchdown.  So fans ran out on the field, only to be quickly pulled off because they reviewed the play and said our guy actually didn't make it in.  So I think we tried one more time for the touchdown, didn't get it, and then kicked a field goal. When the field goal went through the up rights, fans ran on the field again. Deja vu!  Then to add more complexity to this, everyone was standing up, so I wasn't able to get any pictures because I couldn't see over anyone (with my camera). I had to hand the camera to my tall husband, so he was snapping pictures, and I was just jumping up and down, hugging and high five'ing my new rows and rows of best Cowboy friends. So forgive me for not captioning all these pictures. I was drunk on a big COWBOY win!  Enjoy!

Um, do you see who I see?  Legendary former OSU golfer, Rickie Fowler!!

And in the background wearing jeans, former Stanford golfer, Tiger Woods!!  Both were serving as honoree captains for their alma mater.  SOOO COOL!

I think this was them leaving for halftime.

Our little kicker.  Please, please, make it!

We did it. We won!

Getting ready for the awards ceremony

The trophy