Family Fun Expo

Melanie isn't the only one that enjoyed the veggie tray.  Amy loved the peas, but wouldn't eat the shell. You can see her little shiner there under her left eye.

Thursday - first day of Spring, and it was beautiful!  We enjoyed playing outside for a bit.  Melanie loves it, but doesn't love having Max lick her, so I tied him up for a bit so she could run free.  She enjoyed riding in the little coupe that we got for Amy 4 years ago.  When I dropped Amy off at preschool I noticed the irrigation canal was filling up.  I am looking forward to our garden, but not the weeds, and fixing broken sprinklers.

Friday was a good day.  After Melanie's nap we went to the store to pick up ice and a couple of other things for Aaron's campout.  When the boys got home I encouraged them to do their chores and to get the play room clean so we could do something fun in the morning.  They seemed to think they could get it done in the morning, so not much got done that night.  Aaron got home around 6:00 and then took off the with scouts.  I had made a pizza for us at home.  I can't remember what else we did that night.  As usual (when Aaron is not home) I stayed up way too late.  I did get some things done though.

Saturday I had told the kids about the Family Expo up in the city.  It sounded fun to them so they were motivated to get things done.  David got his chores done early, and then disappeared.  It turns out he was down cleaning the playroom (not something he was asked to do).  I still had to light a fire under Timothy to get him to get going.  Amy and I worked on her room, and then I cleaned the kitchen with Melanie under foot.  I was pleasantly surprised that they got it done under the deadline.  I was really hoping Melanie would fall asleep on the way there.  She did, for the last 5 minutes, but didn't transfer to the stroller.  So she was wide awake.  I was glad we got there early (about 10 minutes after it opened).  There was no wait for the bounce house and other activities.  Amy has always wanted to go in the bounce house, but until now she wanted me to come with her.  I guess after testing out the one at Aleya's she was confident enough to do it on her own.

 Documented proof she did it!

 Most of the stuff was for little kids.  David was getting bored.  He saw the laser tag, and wanted to play, but when it said $5 he didn't ask.  He'd done a lot to help out that morning, so I gave him some money and told him to go play laser tag.  It's kind of odd to let him wander off on his own in an unfamiliar place, but he's responsible enough, I just need to let go.  So I had fun with the Timothy and Amy at the Science center display.

 Melanie stayed in the stroller for the most part.

 Amy loved building with the kaleidoscope one

David found us a little while later, and we wandered around to different booths, the kids always want the free stuff, and Timothy wanted to play the games.  It was no surprise that the kids wanted to stop at the library display where we stopped next.  Melanie found a copy of Brown Bear Brown Bear, so we read it again and again.  David wanted to watch the martial arts demonstration, so I let him go again.  Then the kids wanted to find the robotics/LEGO station.  David and Timothy had a lot of fun with that.  Amy wanted to watch the clown (another surprise).  Then she really wanted to do the bounce house again.  I told her she'd have to wait in line, and she agreed.  So I told the boys where I would be and we waited about 15 minutes for the bounce house.  It was noon by then, so we went back in and had to drag David and Timothy away from the robotics/LEGO station.

I had to get a picture of the one Timothy built.  He wanted to take it with him.  Since he couldn't a picture is the next best thing.

I was surprised that Melanie didn't fall asleep on the way home.  So we had a late lunch, and then I put her down for a nap.  I did a little more clean up before the scouts came home from their campout.  Aaron needed to be home by 2:30 because he had to go to the Priesthood leadership meeting for Stake Conference.  Now that they are inviting everyone 12 and up our babysitters are no longer available.  So Phillip and Julianna offered to babysit for us.  After assuring us they were fine with it, we took them up on the offer.  I fixed a quick dinner, and pulled out the new Frozen movie for them to watch.  I picked up Betsy and Madeline and we drove to the stake center.  We got there just as it started.  Loren and Aaron had saved us seats.  I really enjoyed the evening session.  They had three panels; youth, new members or recently endowed members, and missionaries.  It was great!  We also heard from Pres. B* and a few others.  The music was a youth choir.  Afterward we stopped by one of the yogurt shops.  Apparently we weren't the only ones with that idea.  Another 3 families from a ward south of us arrived just after us.  Aaron knew one of them as a physician at a different hospital.  We chatted for a bit, and then got our yogurt.  It was fun, but we were both tired, so we headed home and let Phillip and Julianna take AJ home - he was sleeping so peacefully when we arrived.  Julianna had to unswaddle him to buckle him in.  He fussed for a bit, and then she gently swung the car seat and got him back to sleep.  I think she's got this mom thing down!!!  We are so blessed to have great friends like them!

Melanie is 17 months old

Tuesday was really busy so busy that I didn't even realize it was the 18th until lunch time.  So I took these pictures of Melanie and kept going with my busy day.

Wednesday we had leftovers for dinner including the veggie tray from the RS dinner.  I put it on the table and then watched Melanie do this:

apparently she likes tomatoes

I don't know that much has changed over the last month.  But this is what I can think of.

Some not so great things: 

• She has started screaming.  Often.  For no reason.  Just to be loud.  
• She'll throw her food on the floor and then laugh - maniacally
• She still doesn't consistently sleep through the night.  She'll have a great night or two, and then wake up every hour between 2 and 5

 The good things:

• she likes to repeat words if you ask her to, if she already knows how to say them.  The kids' favorite thing is to say, "Say yes." and she nods her head.  "Say no" and she'll shake her head.  "Say maybe" and she says "baby".  They think it's hilarious.  
• One new things she has started is her new way of going down the stairs

She'll do that even without something in her hands.

• Even though she doesn't have a whole lot of words she can understand a lot.  If I ask her to go get her shoes, she'll get them. Or if I say it's time to eat, she'll try to get in the fridge or the high chair. And she says "cheese" no matter what she really wants to eat.
• When I ask want she wants, she shrieks like she is excited about what I'm going to give her, but I have no idea what she wants.
• She thinks prayer time is musical laps.  She sit on my lap and fold her arms, but then ends up moving around and sitting on just about everyone else's lap.
• Her favorite toy right now is the dustpan.  When I get the broom out of the closet she grunts for the dustpan.  I let her gold it while I sweep.  Sometimes she tries to help me, but usually she just walks through the pile I just swept.  I say, "Mommy's turn" and she hands me the dustpan so I can sweep the junk in and take it to the garbage.  As soon as I dump she asks squeals for it back.  After she says "please"  I hand it back to her and it starts all over until I'm done sweeping.  Usually I'll let her wander around with it for a little while longer.  If I forget to put it away when she is done it ends up in the family or the play room or her room (all on different levels of the house).
• Her favorite book right now is any of the family photobooks we have.  She grabs it and says "baby".  She loves to look at babies.  It's one of her favorite words.  Unfortunately she's ripped a couple of pages looking at those books so often.  She can also point out Mama and Dada in those books.  But if I ask about her siblings she usually looks for them in person.
• Her newest word: "happy"  It's so cute.  It almost sounds like "Abby"

Some not so great things: 

• She has started screaming.  Often.  For no reason.  Just to be loud.  
• She'll throw her food on the floor and then laugh - maniacally
• She still doesn't consistently sleep through the night.  She'll have a great night or two, and then wake up every hour between 2 and 5

That's all I can think of right now.  Only a few more weeks until nursery.  I really hope she will enjoy going. That is if she's awake for it!  Perhaps that will be a good time to eliminate her morning nap, or maybe just on Sundays... 

Dinner with Friends and RS Birthday Party

Sunday morning I made some breakfast and got people up by 7:30 so we didn't have to rush around to get ready for church.  We had pulled a roast out of the freezer when we were expecting Kristy and David, since they weren't coming we decided to invite someone else over.  Victoria and Andy were less than a week from the due date, and we had been wanting to have them over for a while.  We were glad they were available.  So Aaron and prepared the roast and put it in the crock pot before we left.

That is one large roast!

Church went well.  I was sitting in Sunday School when Becky came in and asked if I was still planning to help them in primary.  I had completely forgotten.  Melanie was sleeping in my arms and Aaron was MIA.  So I tracked him down and we did our parts.  I'm glad it worked out.  Relief Society was great, and a enjoyed the lesson.  Melanie was pretty good.  After church I had to track down Amy and eventually we got home.  We had a quick lunch and then we worked on dinner.  I put Melanie down for a nap but after an hour she didn't fall asleep, so I gave up and she didn't get an afternoon nap.  

At some point the kids were all playing with a ball, Amy and Timothy both dove for the ball, and Timothy's head hit Amy's cheek.  Immediately she had a nice bump and I told her she should put some ice on it.  She didn't want to at first, but then she believed me that it would help, she believed it so much that even after 20 minutes she didn't want to take it off thinking that it would start swelling again.  I knew she'd have a shiner the next day, but there wasn't much else we could do about that.  

Dinner was delicious.  I made some rolls, mashed potatoes, a salad, and we had the left over pie for dessert.  They stayed after dinner and joined in our family game.  We had fun.  After the kids were in bed we chatted for about an hour before they went home.

Monday I was busy with prepping for the RS Birthday dinner.  I did get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather.

 flowers on the trellis

 narcissus blooming

We also enjoyed a milkshake for snack, and Melanie made a mess

After dinner we went over to the church and met up with Kim B* to set up for the dinner.  Aaron was on call, so he met us there.  We spent an hour there, and then went home and put the kids to bed, and Aaron finally got to eat dinner.

Tuesday I had to run up to the city to get some things for the dinner, along with groceries for us.  I dropped off the food at the church and checked on the decorations.  They still looked fine.  Melanie was sleeping so I took the flower pots home and repotted the plants while she slept.  I made the chicken salad and got some lunch ready.  I was glad Melanie still took an afternoon nap, I needed to fill the party favors with Easter candy.  I had to wake Melanie up to go get David from piano.  Then we stopped by the church to put the salad in the fridge, and leave the flowers at the church.  When I got home I had about an hour before I needed to be back at the church, so I attempted to clean up the kitchen so I wouldn't have so much to do later.  Then we headed out again.  I had to run back in when I realized I'd forgotten to print of the two documents I needed.  

After everything was set up I took a few pictures.  

 

Kim putting on the finishing touches

 

I wish I had gotten a close up of the cupcakes.  I asked Cheryl and Shannon to make some Spring themed cupcakes, and they did a great job.  Very cute.  Cheryl's were blue and purple with sugar butterflies, and Shannon made some with a raspberry on top and I can't remember what the others were.  They were great!

Aaron had his hospital board meeting from 5-7 so he met us there when he was done.  The kids enjoyed being in the nursery, but joined us for dinner after a while.  There was an empty table they sat at.  Melanie wouldn't go to the nursery, but willingly went to Aaron when he arrived. 

Other than the dinner we did a Relief Society History trivia game, and then gave away the potted flowers.  Timothy really wanted to make some decorations, so I had him tape them to the underside of two chairs at each table.  The people in those two chairs got to take a flower home.  I think it was a great night.  Lots of people helped clean up and we were done by 8:30.  I was so glad to come home to a clean kitchen.  David was complaining about a tooth that was hurting.  Aaron took a look at it and saw that it was really loose and cracked. So we decided to take him into the dentist the next day.

We ended up going to bed pretty late (11:00 ish) and Aaron got a call at midnight, and had to rush over to the hospital.  By the time he finished up with that there was another patient and so he ended up coming back home at 6:40 am just in time for breakfast and scriptures.  Wednesday was a long day for him.  He tried to take a nap while I got the kids ready for school.  That wasn't easy, the kids weren't really quiet.  He had a meeting at 8:00 am, he decided to call into the meeting and set his alarm.  He ended up sleeping through the alarm, but got woken up when someone called.   I got an appointment with the dentist that morning.  After Melanie took her nap I picked up David and we spent about an hour there.  I felt a little sheepish when there was nothing wrong, just a loose tooth.  In fact half of the tooth came out that afternoon.

When I got back Aaron had already gone back to work.  We got ready for lunch and then I took Amy to preschool (we switched days).  I can't really think of anything else other than scouts for Aaron and the boys that night.  Aaron went to bed early (not surprisingly), and thankfully didn't get called in that night. 

Visiting Friends and Making Chorizo

Wednesday we had the rest of the rootbeer for lunch (Aaron had served this with dinner while I was at the baby shower).  Melanie really wanted some.  I gave her a tiny bit, but she wanted the whole thing, so after it was empty I let her play with it.

Thursday the kids were back in school, and that meant I could finally get my exercise in.  I had been neglecting it.  I really ought to try getting up early again.  I only did that once recently, and it worked out great, but the next day Melanie woke up at 4:30, and I went back to bed at 5:00, and I couldn't fathom getting up in 15 minutes, so I turned off my alarm, and haven't tried it since.  Melanie has actually been sleeping better recently.  I've been pretty good about keeping her in her crib.  Although I have fallen asleep on the floor after getting her to lay down.  Anyway, back to what I was saying...
Thursday I spent the day at home mostly.  I got preschool stuff done before lunch, and we had fun.  We made rainbows with colored paper.  Only two of the kids wanted to finish the whole thing.

Melanie took a nap during preschool, which didn't give me a whole lot of time to get other stuff done during her nap, but oh well, that's life.  Mostly I was trying to get laundry done including sheets for the guest room, and our bed.  I was moving around some things in the guest room and making sure there was room for guests.  I had planned to ask Aaron to help me move the exercise bike when he came home.  We really need to get rid of that thing.  Since I have the elliptical now I don't see the point of trying to fix it.  I think we went to the library that afternoon, and that's all I can think of.  When I asked Aaron to help me move the exercise bike later that evening he said he'd meet me downstairs.  When I got down there I discovered he'd already moved it, with David's help, while I was giving the girls a bath.  :)

Friday was a pretty good day.  The girls and I ran to the store after Melanie's nap.  Later I was busy getting the rest of the house ready when my cousins Kristy called.  She and her husband moved from Utah to the big city in January, and now are only about 2 1/2 hours away. They were supposed to spend the weekend with us, but she said they were going to have to postpone their trip :(  I was sad, but she's not too far, and they'll come visit another time, hopefully soon.  I gave up on cleaning the rest of the house, it was pretty much done, but I left a few things undone.  Aaron got home a little earlier on Friday and I hadn't even started dinner, so we got out some ground beef (that we just picked up) and grilled some hamburgers.  I was reminded earlier in the day that it was Pi day, so I made a Snickers pie.  We enjoyed that after dinner. I split a piece with Melanie.

Saturday was our turn to clean the church.  It was pretty easy, and we were done in about an hour.  Then it was time for chores etc. around the house.  I got an email around 11:00 from a friend in the big city.  Her son (David's friend) was playing baseball about 30 minutes away.  After deliberating for a bit (I had a stake RS thing that I would have to miss) I decided to take the kids up there and visit them.  The only problem was Amy and Timothy were having a really hard time finishing the play room.  I gave them plenty of time, but they were just playing.  David, Aaron, Melanie and I had lunch without them.  Aaron and I talked about it and decided if they didn't want to clean the playroom, then it would be off limits.  So I kicked them out, locked the door and sent them upstairs to eat lunch.  They'll get another chance next week. 

Aaron decided to go fishing, and took Amy with him.  I took the rest of the kids with me to the baseball game.  Melanie didn't fall asleep on the way there like I thought she would.  We found Meg at the park.  I let Timothy play on the playground pretty much the entire time we were there.  There was also another family there we knew.  Michael and his dad John.  Gemille couldn't make it because his little brother Benjamin had games in the city.  So I got to see Meg and her husband, but both Cooper and Michael had a game while we were there.  Cooper was pitching so we watched the 1st inning and then walked over to see Michael for a few minutes.  We talked with his Dad, and he was surprised to see we had 4 kids now.  Meg and I got to talk a lot.  David took Melanie over to the playground for a bit.  While I was talking with Meg I saw Michael K*, so I hollered at him and he came over and said hello.  We talked for a bit and found out that Benjamin's team had played (and lost to) Cooper's team earlier.  Meg had told me earlier about a grand slam that Cooper's teammate had hit.  Well, it turns out Benjamin was the pitcher.  We chatted for a bit, and found out the team that was playing Cooper's team was playing Benjamin's team next.  Cooper's team ended up losing 5-2.  Then Benjamin's team beat them in the next game.  David got to say hi to Michael and Cooper and then we headed home.  It was 4:00 and Melanie still hadn't napped.  I wish I had gotten a picture.  Well we stopped by McDonald's on the way home and got shamrock shakes.  Melanie slept the whole way home, and I let her sleep for a bit more, but not for long because it was already late.

When we got home Aaron and Amy were still out.  They had given up on fishing and did some shopping.  Aaron has been interesting in making Argentine Chorizo.  Which is not like the Mexican chorizo you find here.  It's more of a sausage link.  So Aaron decided to buy some pork (15 lbs of it) and a meat grinder and make some chorizo.  He also bought some daffodils. 

When he got home I made some fajitas for dinner.  It turns out the grinder he bought didn't work so well, so he called around and found one to borrow.  It worked great.  So he mixed up some chorizo sausage and I helped him stuff them after the kids went to bed.  We were up kind of late.

That's a lot of chorizo!

Baby Shower, and a Morning at the Park

Sunday came way too early.  Well I guess the clock said 7:00, but with the time change my body said it was 6:00 am.  Now that it's been 10 days I can't remember what we did.  But we made it to church on time.  I'm sure it was great, but I can't really remember.  Cheryl and I handed out the baby shower invitations to as many sisters as we could see.  But that's all I remember.  After church we... yeah, I don't remember.  But I did make a black bottom, banana cream pie.

 Monday I went up to the city.  I stopped by a few stores to get last minute stuff for the baby shower, and regular groceries. I started the truffles for the baby shower, and got things ready for preschool and I don't remember what else.  We had the leftover pie after dinner and Melanie wanted some, but then wasn't too happy.

Tuesday was very busy.  I couldn't put Melanie down for a nap because I had a doctor's appointment.  I had tried to schedule it around her nap time, but then they had to reschedule it, but oh well.  I really just needed to check in with my new Dr. and get my labs done.  It went pretty quick.  While I was waiting for my blood draw I saw Leti (Aaron's assistant), and she said Aaron was wondering if I was done yet.  He must have gone looking for me, and found me in the lab just as I finished.  I walked him back to the peds area.  He told me the beef was ready to pick up - a littlebackground.  A few weeks ago Daren told us about a guy who was selling him some beef, and Aaron said we were interested.  So we contacted the guy and got the ball rolling.  So we bought half a cow.  Pretty crazy huh?!!!  192 lbs of cow.  But the price we paid for all of the beef, kill and cut fees came to less than the going price for ground beef per lb.  Of course I realize the product is less than 192 lbs, but still a good deal.  So I decided to pick up the beef on the way home.  Melanie fell asleep on the way there, like I thought she would.  We paid the butcher and they loaded it in the back of the van (I should have taken a picture), and we went home.  Once we got home we got some lunch ready and got ready for preschool.  We were doing the letter R.  We had fun with rainbows, and robots and roads.  Melanie stayed awake through most of it because of her late nap.  I put her down around 2:00.  After the kids all left I was busy dipping truffles and making cookies.  I was trying to make sure everything was ready for the shower.  Aaron came home early enough for me to arrive early to set up.

Orba and I set up at Myra Faye's along with the truffles and mint chocolate chips cookies I made, Cheryl had bought some cookies and fruit from Costco.  She couldn't make it to the shower.  But she and Shawna made this cute pennant sign that said "Welcome to the jungle".  We had Crystal Light and water.  I filled two jars with jungle colors (brown blue and green).  One was M&Ms and the other was Skittles.  Aaron and I counted them, just kidding.  Aaron weighed 10 and weighed the lot and determined how many there were.  We also had beads and a taboo word (cute).  If you said "cute" someone could take your beads.  There was a bit of confusion about what time it started, so we changed the time last minute from 7:00 to 6:30, but really didn't start anything until 7:00.  The only other game was guessing the food in the baby jars.  I was really glad with the turnout.  I think everyone had fun.  I was so glad I could help put the shower on for Julianna.  Everyone loved seeing AJ.  We took pictures, but they are on Julianna's camera.  After we got everything cleaned up, I went home and Aaron had got everyone in bed, and the girls got a bath, and he even fed them dinner, because I didn't have time to make anything.  Apparently he ordered pizza and picked it up.  Timothy had a couple of Book It coupons to use, and they got a medium pizza to share.  But Timothy saved his individual pizza for a later day.

Wednesday the kids had no school.  It was a day between terms.  It was a nice day not too cold, and not too windy.  So I decided to take the kids to play at a park.  I was hoping to go to a new park, but I didn't know which ones would have sidewalks where David could ride his scooter and bike.  We had fun, and snacked on leftover cookies.  Timothy wanted to take some pictures.

David really didn't want him to take a picture, but I thought it was a great picture.  

He was trying to take a picture of the bird in the tree.  

Melanie had fallen asleep on the way there, but didn't stay asleep Like I had hoped, so it was inevitable that she fell asleep on the way home.  I tried to keep her awake, but it didn't work.  I figured that since they got to play in the morning they would be willing to work in the afternoon, of course I was wrong.  We were expecting house guests that weekend, so I wanted to get the house ready.  With the shower over I could concentrate on that.  I got some things done, and the kids did some things, and had some screen time.  Aaron had a dinner thing he had to go to, up in the city, so we had dinner by ourselves and then I took the boys to scouts.  After cleaning up the kitchen and playing with the girls I got them ready for bed and then went to pick up the boys  I left Amy and Melanie in the van, and went into the church to get the boys.  Amy didn't want to stay there, so she unlocked the door and wandered inside.  So I walked back out with her, grabbed Melanie and came back.  Thankfully Phillip had rounded up the boys, and we were able to leave pretty quickly.  Aaron didn't get home for another 45 minutes or so.  

State Baketball Championship

Saturday was a busy day.  Aaron had ordered a new catalytic converter for the truck.  He had spent some time trying to get the old one out.  He stripped one of the bolts, and had to get some new tools to get the others out.  Saturday was the day to install it.  While he was working on the truck I finally cut back the raspberries and the roses - I know I should have done that in the fall, but oh well.  After chores and such were done, the kids watched a movie and I worked on cleaning out the storage room and the guest room (nothing like expecting house guests to get things done).  Eventually Aaron realized he was not going to be able to put the catalytic converter in by himself.  The last one that was installed was modified, so he called a place in town and they said they could do it right then and it would take about an hour.  So while I fixed dinner, he stayed at the shop.  Unfortunately it took longer than an hour, and I had to go pick him up.  We had the missionaries over for dinner, and I had dinner ready to go.  I had made French bread earlier, and made some yummy gumbo, and had just put the asparagus in the oven.  I took Melanie with me and told David to slice the bread, and I'd be back in 10 minutes.  The missionaries turned down our driveway just in front of us.  I had forgotten to tell David about the asparagus.  Luckily we were only a minute later than the time to take them out, and they were fine.  I didn't have time to make a salad, so we just ate those three things, and had root beer floats for dessert. 

When the missionaries left at 6:00 David and I jumped in the car and headed up to the game.  By the time we found parking and walked to the arena it was 10 minutes until tip-off.  We walked almost all the way to the top when someone asked if we were looking for seats.  Since there was only 2 of us they gave us the seats they were saving for friends that didn't show up.  We were still pretty far up.  We enjoyed the game.  They turned off the lights and used spot lights for the lineups.

Glow bracelets had been passed out before we got there.  It was a great game.  Pretty even for the most part.  Bad calls went both ways, well there did seem to be more bad calls against us, but not horribly lopsided.  The game was tied at half time and though there were lead changes, the lead was never more than 4 points.  The second half was much different.  In the 3rd quarter we gained a pretty good lead (7) and the other team called a time out.  They worked their way back and tied it up.  We had a couple more good leads and were up by 4 at the end of the 3rd quarter.  They rallied back again.  I was frustrated by all of the missed free throws.  I guess both teams were missing them though.  We went up by 5 and they tied it up again.  Finally Jared made a shot, and we were good from there on out.  At one point we thought it was over, but they put 1.1 seconds back on the clock.  We already knew we had won they couldn't make up 6 points in that amount of time.  We won 52 to 46.  Woohoo!  It was so fun to be there.  Our little tiny town has a state championship basketball team.  Almost all of the other teams in the tournament were small private schools, but we are a public school, and I'd say we did pretty well. I took a few pictures.
 

 celebrating after the other team gets their recognition

 anticipating the trophy

 presenting the golden ball

 the team members took turns cutting down the net

David wanted to stay after and meet the team as they came out of the locker room.  Instead of having everyone wait by the locker rooms they sent us to a building next to the arena (it's on the fairgrounds).  It was fun to see everyone celebrating.  David had brought the rally towel they handed out the day before, for the team to sign, but he had a hard time asking them.  He was a little intimidated, but mostly he doesn't like everyone looking at him, but it was difficult to approach any of the team members without someone watching.  There were at least two girls from his grade there, one of them is a daughter of the coach, and brother to a team member.  I guess that made him nervous.  We stayed quite a while.  I talked with a few people I knew.  In the end I took a few pictures, but David never got any autographs.

 Coach B* giving a speech

 Justin D* with the golden ball

 

David wanted to stop somewhere and eat, but it was already late and I wanted to get home. So we drove home.  We had a great conversation on the way home.  So good that I drove 60 instead of 70 for 6 miles, until I realized the speed limit had gone up. 

Phew!  It's been a while since I've spend and entire post on just one day, but I think that's a pretty full post!  Don't you?