fun and busy weekend

Saturday we had a holiday party for our softball team! The theme was ugly sweaters, and Stephanie let me borrow hers. Thanks Steph, I WON!! I gave the prize to the guy who got 2nd place. Can you tell from the photos below what his prize would have been.......?

No photo would be complete without this pose.

Other activities at the party included a white elephant gift exchange. Look at what Carter won!!!!!!!!!!

Also Carter had a great sweater--it was from Grandpa Hubicz! It wasn't extremely ugly but definitely Christmasy with trees, etc. The best part was it had these HORRIBLE hanger creases! It looked like it had been in Grandpa's closet for 40 years (and it probably had! I had never seen grandpa in a sweater like that). Carter wore the sweater with the tie he's wearing above, Santa's playing golf :-) I believe that came from his Dad. After this party we continued on to a 2nd party another friend was hosting (we are so popular, I know!) which was a cocktail party complete with fancy dresses. It was great to show up in our crazy outfits! However late partying gave us a late start on Sunday......

....which was a day I had been looking forward to for weeks--we finally got to visit Sport Authority Field and I got my eyes on Tim Tebow in person! Now when Tim first got drafted to the Broncos I was skeptical....after his first couple games I was still skeptical, definitely slow to joint the band wagon. But seriously, there's something ABOUT that guy, I just can't stop loving him! So now I'm officially on the band wagon. I hope to bear his children someday. They would be beautiful AND athletic!

We tailgated just a bit before the game. Here is Carter paying corn-hole with his brother and nephew (we gave them our 3rd and 4th tickets)

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Walking to the stadium I noticed a MARCHING BAND!  I had no idea the Broncos had a marching band, that really made my day! Unfortunatley no clarinets. I think that's a void I could fill, they definitely need some 'nets!

Here we are before the game. We were exactly 5 rows from the VERY top :-) Surprising the view was still great, we could see everything going on and we also got to see mountains! 

The weather was great, very sunny and probably 58 degrees. It was HOT in the beginning, we were afraid we were getting sunburnt and we wished we brought our sun hats. When the sun went down it felt great, not exactly cold but definitely cooler. I put on a hand-knit hat :-)

The first quarter of the game was great, Broncos scored right away and really seemed in control! 2nd quarter was very slow and not as exciting. The halftime show really sucked. Monkeys on dogs sounds like such a good idea, but they really didn't do anything cool. The best part was that at the very end he showed us the monkeys were NOT tied to the dogs! That made me feel so much better!

Before the game.

After the game. Needless to say, we lost to the Patriots that day. I was hoping for an exciting comeback (Tebow-style) like last week, but none to be found. I still love the Broncos. 

Next year we want to do the same thing as this year--we got the tickets half-off at a special sale in the beginning of the season. Hopefully we'll recruit more people next year to get tickets too so we can have a bigger and more elaborate tailgate! Let me know if your'e interested.