Stars & Allen Americans

Last week Nick came running into my room holding something....about gave me an aortic thinking something had happened to Jack....then he started jumping up and down saying we needed a babysitter. A father of one of my students from last year gave us two platinum level suite tickets to the Dallas Stars ice hockey game in the American Airlines Center. Angela was AWESOME to keep Jack on such short notice. We dropped him off at multicultural night at MST and then headed to the big city. It was a lot of fun and greatly appreciated!

Saturday night we met the McWilliams at Uncle Julios for a last dinner before Harper arrived. It was super crowded in the Allen Village due to the lighting of the tree festivities so we ended up at Tin Star as our alternate. Much less crowded and super loud thanks to Jack and Olivia.

That is right....Jack was crawling under the table to head to the potty while we were waiting for our food to be brought to the table. And ya'll say I'm uptight....my frosty, alcoholic beverage helped me to tolerate the noise of our group and that Jack was crawling on the floor under the table.

This was about when it was time to call dinner over.

Yep...good times. Harper is officially here as I type this post....she arrived today 11/23/09 at 6:18pm weighing 8 lbs. 8 oz., and 21 1/2 inches tall. Mom and baby are fine, Olivia is a proud big sister, and I can't wait til we can meet and embrace little Miss Harper Leigh to the group! Congrats Karen, Aaron, & Olivia!

After dinner we headed to the Allen Arena that just opened in the Allen Village to bring Jack to his first ice hockey game...the Allen Americans. We didn't tell him where we were going til we entered the Arena but this was us before-you know after the millionth trip to the restroom and to put on our free hockey jerseys they were passing out.

My loves!

Still not sure what is going on but thinking the building, jersey, and bathroom are pretty cool at this point.

He was excited although it looks more like fear. :)

Our little ice hockey fan LOVED the game (and luckily didn't seem to pay attention to all the violence I'm not really a fan of).

Jack and Mom

The Relle Clan

We bought a puck for a $1 that before the 3rd period everyone "Chucked their puck" to try to get the closest to the center. We didn't win but it was fun anyway and Nick bought him an official game puck from the store on one of their potty trips. It was really family friendly with lots of competitions like pizza eating (which Nick for sure would have won), shirts with gift cards tossed out into the crowd (we caught one but it didn't have a gift card attached-sniff, sniff), and blimps passing out coupons.

We had met this cheerleader before at the Family Expo on Halloween and she talked with us about getting Jack into lessons with her sister since he is so obsessed lately with ice hockey....but I'm sure that the previous relationship was not the reason Nick took him over to have his picture taken with her...what do you think?!?! ;)

Drunk at this point on FUN or maybe the dinner which included quesadillas, french fries, lemondade, ice cream, eating his weight in popcorn, and washing it down with root beer.

Our little hockey fan...gotta love that face!