Food, Fellowship, and Failure

This past Saturday we had the whole day planned. Mass, brunch, take Frannie for a walk, give her a bath, have wings while watching football, go to the Dessert Pops (musical show at Loras) and THEN, what we were waiting for the WHOLE DAY...watch the Alabama vs. LSU game (which we would DVR) while having people over.

Side note: Here are the wings we had. Tyler made them from scratch and tried two different sauces. They were amazing!

Well..let's just say the day went like planned up until we got back from the Dessert Pops. When we got back I made popcorn, Tyler got chairs set up, and people started coming over. It was about 10pm (the night of daylight savings, which worked out well because we could stay up late and sleep in) and Tyler turned on the TV to get the game going.

Let me back up. We love our apartment, but the downside is we have to have Medicacom for our cable provider, and we have literally called them eight times with problems, and they have come at least three times to replace the box. The latest problem we have been having is when we DVR a show, it freezes when we try to watch it later. Well, we forgot about this problem when we taped the game.

So, Tyler turned the game on and of course...it froze. Thus began the night of restarting the game, shutting off the box, fast forwarding, etc. For three hours Tyler (very patiently, I must say) tried to get it to work. Luckily, our company entertained themselves with Frannie. We had moments when the game worked, so all in all we got to watch the first three quarters (when it got to midnight and it froze again at the start of the fourth, Tyler had had enough.)

The worst thing about it was Alabama lost. Tyler was calling this game the National Championship (because everyone knows that LSU was ranked number 1 and Alabama was ranked number 2) and he had been looking forward to watching it uninterrupted for a long time.

Anyway, life is good because the BSC rankings came out the other day and Alabama only fell to number 3 (behind Oklahoma State, and as everyone knows, Oklahoma State plays Texas Tech this weekend, so if Texas Tech wins, Alabama could jump up to number 2 again.)

Ah...the life of a sports wife!

Here's our teammate Kourtney making cookies. She is quite the baker and she tried a new recipe, chocolate fudge pomegranate cookies. They were delicious!

Everyone loved Frannie. She was a good girl, letting people sit in her spot on the futon (so she snuggled in between them.) She's quite the cuddler!
The guy on the couch in the blue shirt (Tim) and his girlfriend Courtney love Frannie. They sometimes visit the Dubuque Humane Society so they knew Frannie from there, and Tim was so excited we got her that he brought her treats and a penguin toy. Frannie isn't wild about her toys yet, but we're working on that!
Teresa and Frannie enjoyed watching the game together.
See, lots of smile even though it was quite the night.