Family Outing

To celebrate Arek’s spring break from school this next week we decided to take a trip down south on Saturday to watch the BYU vs UofU rugby game at the Rio Tinto Stadium. Arek played rugby in high school and his brother Jared used to coach the Davis County team, so we like to support the sport and see games when we can. It was Julie’s first sporting event so we got her dressed warmly and put her in her stroller (the first time sitting up in it by herself and not in her carseat).

She loved the new vantage point from the stroller on the walk from the parked car to the stadium! Once at the game, though, all the cheers and shouts from fans scared her pretty badly. So we had to leave our seats with Arek’s mom and his brothers Jared and Tiffer to find a less noisy spot in the stadium. The first half was rough for her, but after a diaper change, getting on her warmer “bear” outfit, and feeding her (sitting on a toilet in the women’s room because there was no other place… definitely not very fun for mom!) the second half of the game went much better for Julie. All in all we had a great time, even though the U lost to BYU: 22 to 40.

A very tired Julie fell asleep in her stroller on the walk back to the car and slept most of the drive back to Kaysville where we had dinner with arek’s family. We were a little nervous about taking a 5 month old to a sporting event but it turned out really well. Julie is such a trouper. She and I are both super excited that Arek has this weekoff from school… lots of time for family!