Wednesday, January 7, 2009

jazz game

Colton has one of the greatest extended families that exist. His family is huge on both sides and they are very close to each other--especially on the Swan side. Because of this, we got spoiled this week when one of his dad's cousins took us to the Jazz game when they played the Hornets tonight.

We left this afternoon and took a small detour through Park City so that Colton could meet with one of the FB recruits and his mom. I sat in the parking lot at the school and worked on my first Sunday School lesson for the year and read...and took a nap. After a few hours, he finally emerged and we took off for Salt Lake so that we could meet up with Marggie and Paul for dinner.

We ate dinner at one of the restaraunts in the Little America hotel (a Leonard family favorite vacation destination) and I got stuffed eating halibut, mashed potatoes, rolls, salad, and ice cream. Over dinner, we talked about Marggie and Paul's lifelong relationship. They have the cutest story ever--they were actually childhood sweethearts who fell in love when they were 14 years old. But due to some major miscommunication, they each ended up marrying other people and then got reacquainted after several years--even though they always kept up on each other's lives through the grapevine. 7 kids later and divorces later, they married each other in 1999. And it is incredibly obvious that they are still in love today. Obviously, this was my favorite part of the night, but I think Colton was more interested in talking to Paul about his businesses and investments.

They gave us a ride to the game and we parked and got inside just in time for the game to start. Our seats were awesome--lower bowl about 10 rows back across from the team benches. Things weren't looking promising for the Jazz until the end of the 1st quarter when they finally started to play hard. D Will was sick and didn't even play that much. CP3 was awesome as expected for the Hornets, but it was Millsap that pulled it out for the Jazz. It was so much fun. I would love to have enough cash to be a season ticket holder someday, but what makes it fun is the people that you go with, so I'm content to keep going with Paul and Marggie for the rest of my life!

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