Mother's Day a Day Early

Today we celebrated Mother's Day with my mom a day early. We had dinner at our house and then went to the Real Salt Lake game. It was a good night.

First we had dinner. Since we were going to a sporting event we decided to have food that is normally served at sporting events: hot dogs. Only we decided to be a little fancier than having regular hot dogs and we had chorizos instead. They are spicy Spanish pork sausages and they are so good. Only Hayden, Amaya and Mike wanted regular hot dogs instead, so they had hot dogs and my mom, Carson and I had chorizos. Then we had baked beans and coleslaw. It was delicious.

Now that I look at the picture of my plate, I realize there was a lot of food on it. No wonder I'm fat. In my defense I didn't eat my whole chorizo because I got full.


Amaya wanted me to take a picture of her eating her hot dog, so here it is. Notice her lovely redneck bib. It's basically a bandana with a piece of terrycloth sewn onto it and it's the ugliest bib we've ever had. Mike's mom got it for Carson when he was a baby and I thought it was ridiculous, until I realized that what a bib looks like is not really important. How it works is very important. This ugly redneck bib works so good so we still have it, and since Amaya is one of the messiest eaters I know, she still wears it.

After dinner we headed off to the soccer game. They play at The University of Utah. My dad, Mike and I all went there. The funny thing is none of us graduated. My dad didn't really know what he wanted to do, so he quit after two months. I didn't really know what I wanted to do so I quit after two quarters. Mike was majoring in psychology and went there for four years. Then he quit briefly to be in a heavy metal band (not a good reason to quit college), and after a while he decided not to go back. Instead he decided to work in the family business.


We actually had pretty good seats. Real Salt Lake played FC Dallas and won 2-1. One thing I like about taking the kids to a Major League Soccer game is that the games are a lot shorter than other major league sports. They only have two halves of 45 minutes with an approximate 15-minute half time. They rarely stop the clock but at the end of each half they may add a couple of minutes to the clock. The kids can actually sit still and watch the game without getting too bored too early. We went to a baseball game last summer and about 10 minutes into it Hayden started whining saying, "When is it going to be over?" I didn't have the heart to tell him we'd probably be there for another five hours. I'm exaggerating, but not by much.

The only bad thing about the game was that once the sun went down it got pretty cold. Hayden was very unhappy about that.

Tomorrow Mike, Carson and I are going to the Jazz game. We are having a sports-filled weekend, and we love it.