Breakfast with Santa

We had breakfast with Santa this morning. My oh my...what an event. It was fun, but Santa is so popular this time of the year. It was an experience. But the boys were able to say Hi to Santa and Matt got to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas...Madden 2009. If you haven't figured this out....my son is a sports fanatic!

This was Luke's first meeting with Santa. He wasn't so sure. He didn't cry, but he just sat on his lap and would not look up. We were calling his name trying to get him to look up so we could take a picture, but all that he would do was try and look up at me with his eyes and not lift his head. Not a totally bad experience though. He was a little happier after he received a candy cane.

A kiss from Mommy to make it all better!

Each of the boys were given a toy from Santa. Matthew received this really cool game called Hyper Dash. It looks like a lot of fun. TJ says it looks like advanced Simon. It can be played inside or outside. Santa said it would be great when friends are over and they can have little races or something. Pretty cool.

Luke got a new Dora movie. You won't believe it, but Luke is in LOVE with Dora, too. (Matthew used to LOVE her when he was 3 or 4). He was very happy and all smiles.

Cardinal's Game

Last week Matthew had quite an experience. He has a friend, Christopher, whos Dad knows an assistant coach on the St Louis Rams. The Rams were in town so Christopher and his Dad, Todd, asked Matthew and another friend, Dakota, and all the Dad's to go to the game in hopes that they would get a chance to go down on the field before the game. They packed up the car and left for the game at 8:30. They got to the stadium at 9:30 to tailgate until about 11:00. They then got some passes and were able to get on the field during the pre-game. The boys were excited, but I don't think they really realized what an opportunity they were having. The "Big Boys" on the other hand were in awe! TJ was on a high for days! They were standing right where the players were warming up. TJ said they were running on the field and doing drills and it sounded like a heard of cattle were coming towards them.

One of the Refs came up to them and talked to them.

Another coach for the Rams started throwing the ball to the boys and some of the players were even giving the boys high fives!

They saw some Hall of Famers, I believe, but TJ would have to explain them, because I have no idea! The guys even had their picture taken with the owner of the Rams. TJ said she was super nice!

I am sure I am leaving out a lot of details, but the overall experience was amazing and a long day. They left at 8:30 and got home at almost 6:30 I think. This is the coach that our friend Todd knows from Washington.

This is a link to PhotoBucket to see ALL the pictures they took. There are a lot of them, but some of them are really amazing to see how big these players are.

Handsome Young Lad

Just had to take a moment and share Matthew's school picture. Isn't he a handsome little guy! You can't really tell from the picture because he isn't smiling so big, but he has these huge big front teeth! He looks so big!

Had to get the retakes done because he decided to drink some chocolate milk or eat something chocolate right before he took his pictures and he had this long line of chocolate something right in the middle of his cheek! Bummer! Anyways, these turned out great! I love you Matthew!

University of Arizona vs Arizona State University

Well tonight is the annual rival game for the Cats and Devils. You know that I graduated from the U of A and TJ from ASU...let alone I worked to pay for him to go there (with special thanks to the GI Bill!)...Anyways, Matthew and TJ left this afternoon to hop on the University of Arizona Bus towards Tucson for the game. They are riding with Brad & Steph. Someone will be coming home very sad! I made a bet with TJ & Matthew that if the Cats win tonight, then they have to wear a Cats shirt to our family Christmas and if the Devils win I will be wearing a Devils shirt. Don't know how this will pan out. We will find out soon. Go CATS!!!!!

Super busy!

Not much time to blog these days! Crunch time for us at work and my house is a mess! I hope to get it cleaned up soon and all the boxes & totes put away soon. Will feel better then...but it will be just in time to pull them back out to clean it all up! Not trying to sound like the Grinch, but it's just a fact! I NEED to slow down!
Anyways, hope to get some new pictures up soon.