Patriot's Up Close And Personal

Yesterday was family day for us at Gilette Stadium.  We all loaded onto a bus and traveled down to Foxboro to watch the game.  It's about a 3-4 hour drive depending on traffic and it was nice to have someone else doing the driving.  All the  little cousins had fun making tents between the seats and running back and forth and everyone else gabbed with each other non stop as only families can do.

It was nice that some of us got to go down on the field during the game to see everything up close.  That's always a thrill.  From left to right this is Son, Nephew, Nephew on scooter, Nephew and BIL.  You may notice none of us women got a pass to go down...........what's with that????

It's fun to see the players come onto the field this close.

It's nice watching the game in the skybox as you are undercover no matter what the weather is.  These big windows open if you want to hear the crowd and if it's not feezing cold!  I like sports if they are climate controlled!!

This place is HUGE!  Wouldn't it be nice to have a riding ring even a quarter this big?  I know, always thinking in terms of horses.

What made it even nicer was that the Pat's won the game!

We are supposed to get some snow tonight, about 4-9 inches depending on what weather station you watch.  They are already talking about a huge storm on New Year's Day but things can change before then so we don't get too excited about it.  We did have enough snow to do a bit of snowmobiling until it rained all day yesterday and took almost all of it off.  I didn't get out but Son took T and D out for a ride.  They've sure been getting hit with snow in some parts of the country,  much more then we have.

I put away a few Christmas things today and got all of the linens washed.  I want to iron the napkins before I put those in the china closet drawer so that they will be all nice for the next time I want to use them.  Seeing as I had things out of the china closet I took the opportunity to clean it as it was a bit dusty in places.  I like keeping my tree up in the living room and the mantel decorated as I enjoy the lights when I am in there.  I will keep my villages up over my kitchen cupboards until March as they are not specifically Christmas but winter.

I will be having my Pioneer Woman Cookbook give away soon so be sure to enter!  You don't have to have a blog to enter as I have some people that read that don't have blogs but you have to leave a comment.  You can send your cookbooks to her to have them signed if you want.  She's a nice gal, her sense of humor just cracks me up.  I wish she had come to Maine on her book tour.  Think she would if I called?