gameday in provo, utah!

Saturday morning Steve was up at 6am putting up a 25-foot dinosaur on top of the paleontology museum in the stadium parking lot (long story), a few hours later he was busy with a few other people he works with getting a parade float of two dinosaur skeletons onto ESPN's College Gameday! It didn't really happen, but he did get backstage passes out of the deal. I got over to the stadium just after 8 a.m., just in time for the show! It was interesting to be "backstage," even though it was really the front side of the show! The best part of the show was when, out of no where, Cosmo jumped up on-stage, stole one of the analysts stat sheets, wrote a big "TCU" on it and ripped it up, then jumped off-stage! All the analyst could say was "Uh, I think I needed that!" It was hilarious for everyone but the director, who looked like he was going to start chasing Cosmo off stage if he didn't get off himself! Another highlight of the show was the last few minutes, check it out here.

My mom, dad and Jason came down for the game that evening! I wish it had been a better game considering that Jason stayed in town just for the game (I still wish he had packed Heather and the girls in his bag)! It was still fun, and I'm sure it was fun for Steve to have someone to talk about any and every sport.

The cheering crowds behind the set! People slept out the night before to get good standing spot.

Steve & I with his skeleton parade float

he was born october 23, 1919

This past Friday night, Steve & I joined the Moffat side of the family in Salt Lake for Grandpa Moffat's 90th (SURPRISE) birthday party! You know it is going to be an event when you gather most of the 42 cousins and their spouses, as well as the aunts and uncles together! The past few months have been hard on grandpa due to everything that has been going on with my grandma, so it was fun to surprise him and show him how much he means to the family. I just love my grandpa, and feel fortunate to have the fun memories that I do of him. He has a great memory and an even better sense of humor, so it always makes for interesting stories. Whether it be his stories about how he won all the gold medals at the first summer Olympics ever (in both the men's and women's events) then later during his years as a dentist he melted all the gold medals down to make fillings for his patients, or him telling me that the number of nose hairs you have shows how wise you are (yes, he has a lot of nose hairs). Even though Steve still thinks he doesn't know his name (hence, he always calls him "son"), we enjoy the time we have to spend with him in his old age!

Grandma didn't want to look at the camera.



We missed you, Heather!!

It is always fun to go to family events to see Rachel!

coon skin hats and feather boas

Last week Abbie and Josh came to town for a few days. Highlight: Monday night Family Night at the top of the stairs with Steve & Mckay in coon skins hats, Brookie & I in pink feather boas, and all of us dancing to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. And the umbrella? Tienna said it was "raining" and we all had to be protected so insisted on keeping it open. I can not think of a better Family Night activity. I'm sure my dad thought we were all crazy.



It was fun to see Josh and Abbie and hear their exciting news :) Thank you for making the trip to Utah!

our most recent study break

Last week Steve & I headed up to Salt Lake with a few friends to the Passion Pit concert. As many of you know Steve is a huge concert-goer and I'm not so much, but I'm glad Steve made me go this time:) Despite the fact that they didn't take the stage till close to midnight (and yes, I did have 8am class the next morning), it was well worth the wait! We were standing in the very front, literally, the very front, so we even got to dance a bit with the lead singer, Michael Angelakos, when he made his way into the crowd during a few songs. I would encourage a listen here, here or here for a few of Steve and I's favorite songs of this nerdy East Coast band.