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blazer games at our house

Blazers baby!

Tuesday night I got to go with Dave to opening night for the Blazers. They don't allow "professional style" cameras inside so I stuck with my pocket camera (which means blur and funky lighting.) But I still like the action going on.

I had no idea, but opening night is a big deal. Check out these 8.5 x 11 tickets! Everyone got a hat and an obnoxious blinking pendant thing. The kids are pretty excited about them.

Brennan is a huge Blaze fan all of a sudden so I snapped his picture anytime he was near.

This lady, who was the half time show, was amazing. Dave said he's seen her perform three times and he still thinks its crazy. She's on that unicycle and tosses bowls up onto her head with her leg. There wasn't one that even got close to dropping.

Pretty fun.

The game

Last night we took the kids to a Blazer game. They earned tickets through the library's Summer Reading program. Summer Reading program seats are not equivalent to the schmooze-the-client tickets that Dave gets. We were high. Very high. High enough to suddenly remember I don't really enjoy heights.

The kids had their signs and they tried to get on the jumbo tron, but I'm afraid it never happened.

Isaiah was pretty focused on the game.

It's a little hard to see, but we've all got Blazer gear on. It's cause we're serious fans. So serious, in fact, we now enjoy watching the announcers critique the games and team on their show when there is no game to watch. (And by we I obviously am referring to Dave. Me? I'd rather see "Lie to Me". Maybe that's why I'm the only one who didn't have my own Blazer gear to wear - mine was borrowed. Hmmmm.)

We were so high up we were above the flying car. That's high.

It didn't really look like it in that family shot, but Brennan was pretty stoked about this whole basketball night. He was just super super tired. He was hanging like this in the middle of the game, but by the end he was up cheering and screaming "Defense!" and "Let's go Blazers!" with the rest of the kids. It was pretty cute.

Pre-game warm ups.

Oh yeah, baby.

A long, long time ago I used to play basketball

Dave got to skateboard and I got to try to remember how to shoot a basketball.

Swoosh! Hey one went in!

Brennan kept wanting the ball (we brought a little one for the kids, but it just wasn't what they wanted) and I kept telling him no. Finally he found my keys and offered to switch me.

Blazer mania

Last night we got to go to a Blazer game.

Dave brought his sign.

And we had some darn good seats.

It was awesome. Very very fun. It would have been even better if the Blazers had won - but still. We had a great time.

Looking for attention

Dave went to another Blazer game this week. He's became a rather active Blazer fan - so much so that he bought nosebleed quarter-season tickets with one of his buddies. When he uses those tickets (as opposed to company tickets with clients) he likes to make signs to try to get on tv. (Apparently its a lot harder to get on the jumbotron when you've got you back against the highest wall and can hardly even be seen by the camera men.) Here's this week's:

(For you non-basketball types - He was trying to get on Sportscenter with this one -- Barkley is one of the commentators.)