Go Pokes!!

Yesterday we went to the OSU game, in Stillwater, against Texas A&M. Matt won the tickets at his work and we also met up with some of his friends from work at Eskimo Joe's. I told Matt we better get there early because I had a feeling it might be busy. Matt said he didn't think it would be since everyone does the tailgating before the games. Ya, right. There were sooo many people everywhere. On game days it is all open seating and you pretty much just have to find your own table. People are just standing everywhere and if you happen to get a table there aren't even enough chairs. Matt's buddy from work got a table while other people were still sitting there. We sat with them until they left. This is a picture of us sitting outside the exit of Joe's.

Emily kept taking Matt's hat off and putting it on her head.

Matt was really excited to see the stadium. They have really made the stadium nice since we've been there. We had pretty good seats. We were in the first section of seats down by the field. Matt took this picture of the band getting ready to go out onto the field for the pregame stuff.
Here's Pistol Pete. Emily kept waving at him and saying Hi.
She was really into clapping her hands to the music before the game started.

Another picture of the band.

This was around the first time when everyone started cheering. She didn't know really what was going on and started crying.

There was this group of older men who were sitting behind us with some of Matt's friends from work. Right before it was time for halftime they left to go to some bar down the street from the stadium. The older guys came back around the end of the third quarter. They kept saying how cute Emily was. Matt got out the camera because she kept saying 'no-no' and pointing her finger at the other team when they had the ball and then one of the guys behind us said he would take our picture for us. They were soo drunk and this is our picture from a drunk guy. He took it before Matt could turn around all of the way.

These are a couple of pictures of my OSU pumpkin I bought at a pumpkin patch here in Edmond. I thought I could paint one myself like it, but I figured by the time I bought all of the supplies it would probably cost more than the price of it already painted. So I just bought it there.


Here is a video that Matt took of the pregame stuff. It brought back old memories to Matt since he did this for about four years when he was in the marching band at OSU. You can see the horse 'Bullet' riding through the band toward the end. Emily loved it when the horse would run across the field after every touchdown. She kept saying horse as 'hor' and was cracking us up.

This video was taken when the OSU football players were coming out onto the field with the smoke. Everyone was cheering and Emily was clapping but crying at the same time. It was so funny. After she got used to the noise she was so good the rest of the night and didn't get fussy or cry the whole rest of the night. Even when we were making that long trip back to the car after the game. I forgot to say that the other team came out right after our guys came on the field and that's why Matt is booing.

We got a lot of compliments on Emily with her being so into everything. We've been lucky with taking her to other events like Sesame Street and the Harlem Globetrotters and now this. She loved every minute of the game. Everytime we sat back down and then a big play would happen we had to stand back up because Emily wanted to. If I was holding her she would reach out for Matt because I was too short and she could see better with him. I was surprised that the big loud bangs didn't scare her after each touchdown because I about jumped each time. She also loved giving high fives to everyone after each big play and touchdowns. She also wanted to shake Matt's keys like everyone else when they would kick the ball. We had a great time last night and I hope we will be able to do it again sometime. It was neat for Matt and I to take her back to campus where we spent five years of our lives there to go to a fun event and to see how she reacted to it. It was a great night.

I forgot to say that we kept trying to get Emily to say O-S-U when they were doing the chants. She would get the O and the U out but kept skipping the S. I told her she was no child of ours if she kept saying OU.