A few weeks ago my (Paige’s) family came to Colorado to visit. A few days after they left, Josh, Carson, and I headed to Utah to celebrate my cousin Hillary’s wedding. It was great to see the Ellsworths in Denver and show them our house, and we had fun in Utah, too. It was awesome seeing so many of my cousins that I haven’t seen in forever. It was a crazy busy weekend, but we had a lot of fun. (Many thanks to my mom for all of the good pictures that you see.)
We decided to take one of the last nice weekends this late summer/early fall and go mini golfing for a family date night. (Josh had a free game from his golf class at BYU.) Josh’s golf class taught him a lot, because he creamed me, but we both had a lot of fun. Carson did, too. :)
You know how, when there’s a contest, or something free to win, or a drawing for door prizes, you usually just kind of don’t win? I guess that’s how life usually is. But then when something incredibly lucky does happen, it just makes it that much cooler!
We had our incredibly lucky experience on Friday night. For date night we headed to a Rough Riders game, a minor league team in the Dallas area. We planned on buying the cheap grass-seat tickets, and we were late getting there because we got slightly lost, but it turns out being late was the best thing that happened that night.
As we walked up to the stadium to buy tickets, a man approached us with two wristbands. “Would you guys want these wristbands?” he offered us. “They let you get free food. My daughters were going to come, but they’re out of town.”
“Awesome, thanks!” we said. “Where do we go to buy tickets?”
“No, you don’t need tickets with these,” he said as he handed us the wristbands. Then we understood that the wristbands he was giving us were magical passes into the stadium that also guaranteed us free food from four different places inside. We thanked the man even more and walked inside, where the ticket collectors enthusiastically explained to us all of the free food and perks our tickets came with.
Then we proceeded to enjoy an awesome baseball game, including nachos, soda, hot dogs, ice cream, prime rib, roast beef, box seats, rootin’ for the home team, and all the other happiness and joy that comes from summer baseball games. Oh, and fireworks.
So thanks to that really nice man who gave us the tickets, whoever you are! You totally made our night.
Oh, the joys of pools during the summer heat of Texas. We spent an entire morning working out on the lawn and cleaning up, and at one point it was just time to jump in, clothes and all! Pools are the best. Enjoy (and live vicariously through) the pictures!
