Tuesday, October 28, 2008

NBA is FANtastic!

So last week a former (law) partner of mine gave me 4 center court tickets to a Phoenix Suns game. Of course since there are 5 of us in the family we had a major decision to make. Should I leave a boy home? Should I stay home and Angie go? Should we give away the tickets since we can't all go?

We decided to settle it the old fashioned way: Angie and I arm-wrestled for the right to take the boys to the game.

Here is the first picture of the night that the winner took. Can you guess who took it?














What can I say? I love dancing. Just kidding. Long story short, Angie let me go even though I lost the arm wrestle. Plus she had book club that night. Now in most marriages it would be no sacrifice for a wife to skip sports and go do girl-talk with appetizers. In our marriage however, Angie is a HUGE sports fan and although I love sports, I am also happy to spend an evening yacking it up and eating finger foods.

Thanks for sacrificing Angie. The boys and I had a great time.

The tickets included passes to all the clubs at the Arena and the area underneath the stadium between the floor and the locker room. At half-time and after the game we gave the players high fives as they ran into the locker room.

After the game we talked Amare Stoudemire into stopping and signing autographs for the boys. They were so excited!


All in all it was quite a lot of fun and hopefully the boys remember the good time we all had with Amare, Shaq, Nash. And the Suns dancers. OK, I don't want them (or Angie) to remember that part.

-Chris

5 comments:

The Lees said...

I wish I was a Miner kid! Looks like a good time. And thanks for clarifying what kind of "partner" gave you the tickets.

Melissa said...

Oh you are so lucky to have such a nice wife! One word - JEALOUS!!!!!!!

(Angie, did you really win the arm wrestle? Come on, you can tell me)

Rosalyn said...

I knew I should have moved in by the Miner's when Angie was house hunting for me!! Angie, thanks for stopping by to see me today. Sorry about the so untrue comment. What can I say, it wasn't my class. They would never do that, she would have pulled a card for sure!

Shane Meredith Mason and Kendall said...

I totally believe Angie won...after all YOU wore the dress the other night. So, she must wear the pants in the family...right? :)
looks like a fun night, remember next time..WE have 4 in our family. I wouldnt have to beat Shane in a arm wrestle

Stephie said...

You are so lucky to have such an amazing wife!! I know she could have truly kicked your hiney, tied you up, and stuffed you in the closet...and she probably would have if the Suns were playing the Jazz!! :-) Glad you had fun!! Miss you!