Wednesday, September 5, 2012

You can take the girl outta Wyoming......

but you can't take Wyoming outta the girl! As a proud graduate of the University of Wyoming, and a small town Wyo girl I get sooo excited to watch the Cowboys any chance I get. We traveled to Austin this past weekend to watch the POKES take on the Longhorns.  We were fortunate to have done the same 2 years ago when they played in Austin. My brother came from Cheyenne and spent the weekend in Austin as well.   Britt came over from Houston so it was a family affair. We have a close friend from Wyo that came down and we got to spend a lot of time with him as well. Justin played basketball for the University of Wyoming, as a 3 point shooter, so Brenn was getting a lot of pointers. We also saw Reggie Slater who played for UW when I was there and went on to play in the NBA for 9 seasons. We had seen him in Houston so it was great to catch up with him and 2 of his children in Austin.  He was also giving Brenn tips on his game.  I only took a few snapshots because we were visiting and seeing Austin and enjoying all the great food and sights it has to offer! The game was not as bad as it could have been, we played fairly good. A win would have been great, but impossible! :) We will always have Poke Pride!
Brooklyn is a photo queen....family elevator pic!
Leaving for Austin...all decked out.  The kids got their clothes at UW this summer when we were there....the socks crack me up!
Haha! Britt...NOT funny!
Much better clothing choice for Britt! Waiting to go to the tailgating party.
Love this one of all 3 Bees
The UW band made the trip this time and showed up to entertain at the UW Alumni tailgate party.  It was great, loud and got the crowd going with Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
Tony and Justin, great friends. So happy to see him!

Kick off
Delta Delta Delta house on UT campus...trying to convince Brookie, still.....
The Texas Capitol...we Do live in Texas and DO have Texas pride :)
Main Tower on UT campus, lots of history here.
Brenn, size 10...Justin size 17
Figuring out where to eat....it was a process...What a great weekend! Go Pokes!

2 comments:

Jem said...

Love the Pokes also! Cant wait til November when they play the Rebels. Not quite as big a game as yours but fun as well. I love how close your family is. You can tell you all love each other.

Elder Nicholas Sinks said...

Looks like such a fun family adventure! As for the Pokes...not sure about that;)
Everyone looks so greg and happy...Austin is a beautiful city with lots of fun things to do. Glad your get-away was GREAT!