Go Cyclones!

Thursday night was PERFECT!  Well almost perfect, we were missing Michael (he was working hard on the road for us) but besides that it was a perfect fall night.  We headed to Ames for the Cyclone game against the "hook em' horns" as Finnean calls them.  We were set up for the night.  Tia took Hutchinson (Thanks, Tia!!) and dropped us off  at the stadium.  I had a free ticket (Thanks, Kate!) and the weather was amazing.  It kept threatening to storm but never did, so that left us to tailgate and enjoy the game.  Finnean LOVED it.  He really loves seeing Uncle Trav there and they tossed the football for most of the time we were tailgating.  We headed into the game and found a great spot on the hill.  Finnean was so excited to see the stadium and his face when we got to the top of the hill was priceless.  He spent a lot of the time making imaginary catches from the ISU players or doing touchdown dances.  He watched the game and clapped and cheered!  He didn't make one peep of grumpiness...it was glorious!  We has so much fun together.  The Cyclones were even playing well but ended up losing on a very controversial call or so we heard.  We didn't see the end of the game but left after we watched the band at halftime.  Our ride picked us up and we were in bed by 915!  I can't tell you how much I loved soaking up the time with just Finnean.  It doesn't get much better than soaking up a football game with your boy.
 

Tailgating with Uncle Trav is always FUN!  Finnean has that smile pretty much the whole time we were there.

This boy.  Oh my, he just tugs on my heart strings.  I don't even have the words to tell you how excited he was!

They have a "Flex Cam" at the stadium and Finnean was trying to get on the big screen :)
Cutest little muscles I have ever seen!

Uncle Trav surprised us at halftime and came to chat with Finnean.  As you can see from Finnean's smile, he thought that was pretty cool!

This is Finnean right when we headed up to find our seats.  He instantly started playing imaginary football.

According to Finnean this was his favorite part.  The players walk right underneath you when they were going back out from halftime.  I told Finnean to yell something to them and he said, "No Mom!  They are focused!"  HAHA! Where does he come up with this stuff?  He was pretty amazed by them.  He also said that he really liked the "hook em' horns" mascot.  My favorite part was when both of us were really paying attention and we got to see the Cyclone player rush into the end zone for a touchdown and we both started cheering and jumping.  The look on his face while he was yelling "touchdown!!!" was spectacular, just filled with pure excitement.  I can't get over how much fun it was to spend the evening with this sweet, almost five year old!

Finnean was pretending but Hutchinson was not.  He was out before we got on the interstate in Ames.  Tia said they had such a good time and Hutchinson spend most of the night giggling with Gabi.  What a fun night for everyone and thank you to everyone that made it possible!