A Night To Remember

Benji didn't have school on Monday due to President's Day and the kids were "housey" so I came up with the brillant idea to go to the Grizzlies Hockey Game that night since kids 12 and under were free and I didn't have to use any of my tickets for them. We decided this would be our Family Home Evening activity and that we would just leave at 9:00 (which is when we put the kids to bed) whether the game was over or not. The kids could just fall asleep in the car.

I picked Ryan up at work as it was on the way and everything was going as planned. We got to the game just as it was starting. We hadn't eaten dinner so we got the kids and Ryan something to eat (nothing looked appetizing to me yet). We got into the game 5 minutes into it. It was fun just to be there on a Monday night as there weren't a lot of people there and we had a lot of room to stretch out. At the end of the first intermission, I decided to go get something to eat and Alyssa came with me. I made her walk around the entire thing to see what I wanted to eat and it took me forever to decide. I finally did and then we were walking back to our seat when I ran into an old friend so I stood there talking for 5 minutes. We finally got back into the game with 12 minutes left in the 2nd period. We made it through the 2nd intermission and into a few minutes of the 3rd period when 9:00 rolled around and we packed up our stuff and left.

This is where it really gets interesting. We got out to the car and Ryan says "I hope you have the keys". Mind you, Ryan is the one that drove there. I told him no and we frantically start looking for the keys. It was pretty cold outside and the kids started crying and saying how they wanted to go home. I told them we'd be ok and took them back into the lobby while Ryan and James ran back up to our seats to see if the key was somewhere up around there. We have a friend at the hockey game who is a former police officer and he asked one of the police officers on duty to help us out. The officer told Ryan to stand by our car after the game and he'd come unlock it for us. Wouldn't you know it, the game went into overtime and then into a shootout which still took forever for someone to score. In the meantime, I had called Ben to come get us in case we couldn't find the key and to help calm the kids down. Ben got there just as the game ended and the kids and I sat in his car until the officer came to unlock the car. Ryan found the keys which had been locked in the car. We finally left the E Center about 9:45 that night and headed to my Mom and Ben's to get Alyssa's shoes she had left at their house on Saturday and change James' diaper before we headed home.

The kids stayed awake the whole way home and we finally pulled into the driveway at about 11:20 when I remembered Ryan's car was still at his work. I normally would have just taken him to work the next morning but I had to have both kids to school and be at my doctor's appointment in American Fork by 9:30 so I wouldn't have had time. We pulled out of the driveway and went and picked up Ryan's car. The kids fell asleep during this leg of the trip which was good because we didn't end up walking in the door until midnight.

Needless to say, Ryan says no more hockey games on a weeknight. I told him it was just one of those nights to laugh at but he wasn't laughing with me.

Another Nascar Fan In The Making!

So on Saturday Ryan had run to the store and I was picking up our bedrooms so I could vacuum. All of a sudden I noticed it was really quiet and started wondering where James was. I kept calling his name and he didn't respond to me so I started getting a little worried that maybe he had gone outside since he knows how to unlock the deadbolts without standing on anything. I came down into the basement and there he was watching Nascar of all things. I started laughing and had to call Ryan to share the news much to Ryan's enjoyment. Then today I left the livingroom for a moment and when I returned he had Nascar on again. When I asked him what he was watching he told me Jeff Gordon. Not only is he liking daddy's sport but also his driver! James is only 2 and I already have 3 big Nascar fans in the family. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!!