Day Trip To San Diego

Divide and conquer!

That was the 'game plan' for this morning. Duff and Christine headed to Newport for her lacrosse games and I did the weekly grocery shopping, picked Josh up from dropping off their car for maintenance, and got things ready for the day trip to San Diego.

BYU vs. San Diego State

All the pom poms in a cup holder ready to go!

Biiiiig stadium! Also home to the Chargers.

Meredith's littlest bro at his first BYU game! He really enjoyed himself and can tell you everything available to have for a snack! He loved the whole experience and was so good.

Fans.

Chris and her friend, Sarah.

Stadium nachos. Why is it they taste so good outside?

Such a cute couple!
Mike and his Adriannie.

She is such a good sport. Not a big football fan, and if she votes for a team it would probably be the U (sigh, argh...) since she went there, but for Duff, she'll don the blue and white at least once a year!

Gwen and I trying to get pictures at the same time, so the guys row in front of us didn't know where to look. Bob E., Josh, Eric (Mere's brother), and his friend, the one and only Taylor D.!

Victory, but they answered back quite a bit. SDSU has a new coach and you can see the improvements.

Ooooh. Come on guys. TCU next week!

[ anniversary of my mom's car accident in '89. Twenty years. That was a very bad day. Duff and I were out of town at colleges doing recruiting for Ernst and Young, my dad was in San Francisco for work while the huge earthquake hit and we couldn't find him. My mom was staying with our kids and taking Mike to scouts at the church. She turned left when the traffic light turned yellow, but a man on a motorcycle split the traffic lanes and wanted to make the light, gunned his bike and hit our van as if there was a bullseye target on the side. All 4 of our kids at the time were in the van. It was totaled. The motorcycle man was dead at the scene, revived, and later died at the hospital of massive injuries. No helmet, no license. Middle bench seat of our van pushed out the other side with 2 of our children on it. My mom was charged with vehicular manslaughter, we were sued. It was a MESS!!! The police department was in an ongoing battle with the city where we lived at the time and happened to use this case as one they were going to make an example of. We know what it is like to have horribly false lies printed in the newspaper! Don't believe everything you read! Fortunately, we had an amazing attorney, who just happens to be Meredith's father!---who would have thought!---and all of us were cleared of all charges. We sure learned a lot through this. But my mom, even all these years later, still has a hard time driving. I'll have to devote an entire post to this one day. What I've written here is only the 'readers digest' version/synopsis.]