Whirlwind Weekend

It's the last weekend before school officially starts - we kicked it off by making a whirlwind trip to St. George to watch the Jags take on Hurricane (not to be confused with Hurricane Irene taking on the east coast)

Gary and I left Friday early afternoon, we stopped in Nephi for lunch at a place called the "One Man Band" Diner. It was a quirky little place - kinda set up like The Training Table where you call in your food order from a phone at your table, but it's a much smaller, intimate setting. We ended up chatting with one of the local Nephi policemen who was at a table with (what sounded like) the high school football coach, one of his assistants and one of the high school assistant basketball coaches. It was fun to listen to them talk and interject on a few sports related subjects I was comfortable with.

We left there joking that we were going to have to retire to a place where, on Friday afternoons, we could go and shoot the breeze with the locals at a small cafe.

When we arrived in St. George we started worrying about how hot it was (the car said 105) outside, and how we were going to sit through a football game!! Before the game we headed to my sisters house to see her and her cute family. 

This is me with cute little Hailee

I got to sit and hold Hailee. She was born August 8th - shes SOOOOO CUTE!!! Except she wouldn't open her eyes and look at me!

 Her big sister Hayden is soooo excited to have her around, she is her mom's big helper for sure....right, Kel?? Hee hee

We had dinner - taco salad and fruit and my sisters famous lemon poppyseed cake - to DIE for! Yum! Hayden was more worried about me seeing her "big girl" room than eating, but I think she managed to eat some fruit before getting Aunt Jenna out of the couch and down the hall to see everything.

After dinner we picked up Reillys' friend and headed to Dixie college where the boys were playing ball. Jace rode with Gary and I, he thought our car wasn't big enough and figured we should have a bigger one so we could fit more people. I couldn't bear telling him we were not exactly a growing family and didn't really need a bigger car.

Lance, Reilly, her friend and Jace at the game.

It was really fun to have them come to the football game with us. It was miserable hot for a while, but worse than the heat was that the concrete steps we were sitting on were hot - serious cooked buns!!! But, the clouds covered up the sun, and while it was still hot, it was bearable. We all enjoyed the game, mostly.... Jace actually spent most of it playing on his DS and wanting to know how soon the 4th quarter was so we could start walking over to see Jeff. He was pretty patient for the most part, he just wanted to see Jeff.

 

Jace and Jeff

As you can see, Jace got his wish :) I'm sure if he could have climbed on the bus with the big boys so he could hang with Jeff he would have.

It was a good trip, quick, but good. It was fun to see everyone.

Well, time to chill for a while and get my "Qi" in order for the beginning of the school year!