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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Deep in the Heart of Texas

It all happened in Arlington, Texas, September 5, 2009 in the new Cowboy's 1.3 billion dollar stadium. The 75,437 fans present didn't think it could happen, but BYU beat 3rd ranked Oklahoma University 14 to 13 and WE WERE THERE!!!

Thursday morning we flew from Provo to Dallas to spend a fabulous weekend in Texas. Thursday night we had dinner and toured the new Cowboy's Stadium. Wow! is the only thing that I can say to describe this place. The picture below shows the field as they were preparing it for game day. The screen that you see in the picture is 60 yards long and 7 stories high and in high def. Most of the 80,000 seats are padded, there are 3,000 high def TV's in the stadium, and there are over 300 suites that probably cost more than I will make in my lifetime.
We stayed at the Gaylord Texas in Dallas along with the rest of the Cougar Club. One of the things we did while we were there was take Olivia swimming. She loved it of course.

Olivia was the only baby in our group and everyone loved her. She was definitely the most popular one on the trip and everyone wanted to hold her. She was such a trouper... we dragged her around Texas for three days and she was happy most of the time. She even slept for 8-9 hours each night- probably because we wore her out.

While in Texas we were able to visit Scott's Aunt Vicki who lives in Flower Mound. She took us shopping in Dallas where we visited the American Girl doll store and then headed back to her house. Olivia loved the puppies.

Friday night we went to the Circle R ranch were we were fed BBQ, had a wagon ride, saw a rodeo, and got to meet Cosmo:

Saturday was game day. We all put on our BYU blue- Olivia looked especially cute that day with two pigtails in her hair. Her hair on top is getting so long, but it is still pretty thin on the sides- hopefully it will grow in soon.

Before the game we went to old town Grapevine to do a little more shopping with Aunt Vicki. Olivia got really tired of shopping and decided to take a nap...

Here we are at the Stadium right before the game:
Cougar Fans celebrating a unexpected win:

6 comments:

tina said...

Holy Cow! I am so jealous! My brother in law lives in Oklahoma, and he was also there...wearing his BYU garb!

Kristen said...

Fun pictures! Tell Scott that I think Ty is WAY regretting not going! I kept telling him he should go, now after that win, that would have been an awesome game!

pitterbecky said...

I'm glad you guys had such an awesome time. Olivia does look rather adorable with her hair in pigtails. Too cute!

Brittany said...

Love the piggies, Love the sleeping picture, Love the BYU gear. She is so adorable! We are excited for this weekend. I might have to get Emma some BYU gear.

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SumGreater said...

Woohoo!! Go Cougs! We might be coming back to BYU next year for Grad School. It would be so great to see you guys again!
Olivia is getting cuter all the time!! I love the pooped baby picture.