One, Two, Three, Four...First Down!

When Natalie and I went back home to Indy for the week, my sweet brother got us tickets to the Purdue game.  He works in the equipment department for the basketball team, but scored us some awesome tickets to the football game and showed us all around the facilities.  It was so cool to get a behind the scenes look.  

As an aside, did you know he has to scan his hand before the door will open to the locker room?  I mean, I pretty much bleed black and gold but seriously Purdue?  This isn't a bank vault.  It's a Big Ten locker room.  Pretty sure that money could be better spent elsewhere.  

Anyway...I was whipping out my camera everywhere and making Matt take pictures of me nonstop.  Matt and my parents were quite annoyed but I couldn't help it!  I mean, I was in the locker room!  And sitting where Matt Painter sits!  Hello, people.  This is a big deal!

 Me and my bro in the football locker room before the game

 This is where the head basketball coach watches film.  Pretty cool huh?  I wonder if Gene sat here or if this is a new purchase since he retired?  Let's just pretend this is the exact same chair Coach Keady sat in, okay?  Living the dream...

 Hummel's locker.  What a mess...

And yes, I am carrying around my breast pump with me.  Life of a nursing mom...

 

 Basketball players' film room.  Those chairs were so comfortable!  I could've stayed right there and taken a nap...

 This is a view from where I was sitting at the film screen, which is really just the entire wall.  Matt was beyond thrilled to be there let alone get his picture taken.  What can I say, I married a Hoosier.

Needless to say I had a blast.  We won...I got to walk around campus and reminisce about dorm rooms, old friends, frat parties, and all night bar hopping...and I got to have my favorite calzone from Love Shack as well as a Den Pop.  Pretty much a fantastic day. 

AND, I left Natalie with my in laws for the whole day and she didn't die.  Can you believe it?  She survived being taken care of by people that love her as much as I do?  I know, right.  And I only called twice.  Pretty impressive, huh?

Superdog!

Last weekend, Matt and I headed off to Chicago to visit my sister and her husband! We had just a fabulous time and I cannot wait to go back!

We arrived late Friday evening and didn't really do much but head to bed. That bus ride sure does take it out of you! As an aside, can I just talk a second about the passengers of the Megabus? We had a young man, maybe early college age, sitting across the aisle from us. Here is just a taste of what we got to enjoy during our 6 hour trip:

• our very own rendition of Fireflies
• witnessing the conducting of an orchestra (we heard later he was taking out the soprano part in his head and changing it around...apparently he's in the choir)
  
• overhearing all about calculus and physics homework (who does homework on a Friday night?? Sad boys who will never, ever have a girlfriend. That's who.)
• hearing every street we passed relayed over the phone to his friend when we got near the city

By the end of the trip, I was completely delirious and found all of this hilarious. And we heard Fireflies 4 times over the weekend which made it even better.

Saturday we got to spend some quality time with this little man!



He had his very own Milkbone that he carried around with him all the time. He wouldn't even let go of it when he was chasing the tennis ball! So cute!


But my favorite thing about Mook was when his ear did this:


Family portrait!



This is as close as Matt got to Mook. Although his allergies weren't acting up, he didn't want to risk it. The joke all weekend was that Mook loved Matt the most and they were the very best of friends! You can tell by Matt's face that he didn't agree.


We spent the day playing board games, eating yummy deep dish pizza, and watching the Colts win! We also went to dinner and got to enjoy this deliciousness for dessert!




Sunday was pretty much more of the same...board games, leftover pizza for lunch, more football, just a wonderful relaxing weekend with family. Couldn't have been better.

We left Monday morning to go back home and spent the evening recouping from the trip. Isn't it funny how sitting on your butt for hours can make you tired? Weird. But we're back...and back to work...and ready to plan our next visit :)

I shall leave you with a few more pictures of Mook. I know. I am clearly puppy obsessed and I MUST HAVE ONE NOW!