THE START OF FALL...

ALWAYS begins the same way.

The weather gets cool

The leaves start to change colors

AND

BYU FOOTBALL starts!

Today was the first home game. For 3 years now, we have always started the season with this group of friends:

Dallas '09

We were all in the same ward in Las Vegas and became fast friends due to each husband's LOVE of Cougar Blue. We have SO much fun with this group! We laugh SO hard each time we are together that my stomach and side hurts.

We usually go to an away game together. However, this year due to different circumstances it didn't happen. Instead the 3 of us that live in Utah and Northern Nevada went to the game (sans Pam) and the 2 Las Vegas couples watched the game in Vegas and went out to dinner. Yet the entire night we all kept texting each other!

(Sorry Jeff and Pam...I forgot to take a picture at the restaurant. I was too busy chasing L. Tom Perry with Abby.)

Amy's lucky shirt. BYU has NEVER lost when she wears it.

Another sign of the start of fall is my husband getting the flag ready to fly. It is fun to drive down my street on a Saturday in the fall and see the mostly blue flags and those silly red Ute flags!

It has become a joke with our group of friends that each game we go to, I always see someone famous. Even though when we went to Seattle, I thought I was taking a picture with the Washington coach but it wasn't him. Oops!

So we were all surprised to see Ty Detmer at the restaurant. And it was the REAL Ty Detmer!

This was Abby's first BYU game. She has been wanting to come for almost a year now.

She was VERY cute. We had to go to the bookstore before the game to get her a BYU shirt.

BEST PART....we won the first game.