True Blooded Aggie from Utah

It's been a while, but Mark and I took the boys up to Alumni Day/Family Day up at USU on September 13. The boys and I were all decked out in Aggie gear. My mom found an old maternity shirt she had from when she was expecting my little brother Tony (25 years ago). I had to wear it, and I wore it with pride. Got quite a few compliments on it to I might add.

The boys had a great time with the many free activities up on the quad - bouncy house, inflatable slides, velcro wall, fishing pond, football toss and rock climbing. I enjoyed the free Aggie icecream and sugar cookies we got to decorate ourselves. We had planned to meet my parents and watch the game that night - USU vs. Utah. Needless to say, I knew I wasn't going to be purchasing tickets for our family when I found out the general admission tickets cost $32. (They jack up the ticket prices for UofU and BYU games.) I couldn't pay that much for myself, not to mention for my 4 and 7 years boys. I called my mom and told her I was sorry but we wouldn't be coming inside to sit with them and that we would just have to go home. Well, long story short - and I still don't know how it all happened. Mark and my dad were given THREE FREE tickets and had to purchase one ticket for a whopping $20. How's that for savings -- $20 compared to the $128 I thought we'd have to pay. I was one happy camper. Only sad thing of the day - my Aggies lost, but that never stopped me from being a true Aggie.

It was funny too, that morning at breakfast Ethan said, "Mom, you and Dad are enemies." When I questioned him about what he was talking about, he said, "You are blue and dad is red." It's true, Mark graduated from the U, but I know I've helped put some Aggie blue in his blood.