Gooooooooo ReAL Salt Lake

On Thursday this past week, we had the wonderful opportunity to go to the opening game of the ReAL Salt Lake soccer team. We had a blast! It turns out that Morgan gets a little discount from his employment, and you have to pay for kids that are 2 and older, so we wanted to go before Logan's birthday which is coming up in about a week. :)

We won 4-1 against the Colombus Crew. It was a really awesome game. We had so much fun that we're actually considering saving up some money and buying season tickets next year...we'll have to see though. It was pretty cold and I think Logan was a little overwhelmed, and mostly just sat on my lap or laid his head on Morgan's lap. Damon loved it! He was happy and chipper, then he ate, and fell asleep for about half the game.

It did start raining when there was about 10 minutes left, but we decided we better go before it got too bad, it was a good decision, it started pouring as we were leaving, and we knew we were going to win, the score was already 4-1.

There's Daddy and Logan.

And Mommy and Damon.

We took a few pictures of the Stadium while they were getting ready to start the game, but we never managed to bust out the camera for some pictures during the game. DOH! It was pretty cold, but we mostly just forgot we brought the camera with us because we were busy making sure the babies were warm and happy.

We're not sure who all those kids are in the middle of the field. They were doing some kind of pre-game recognition for local kids soccer clubs
The national anthem (performed by Josh Rosenthal) was awesome! I've never heard of Josh Rosenthal, but apparently he is a local singer. The performance was just him and his acoustic guitar. It was the most amazing performance of our nation's anthem that we've ever heard. Simple, sweet, and straight to the heart. You couldn't help but get a little misty-eyed when listening to the lyrics & music while looking up at the flag, and being so thankful to live in a land of freedom where we can enjoy things like enjoying a soccer game with the family. In the photo you can see guys with black carts out on the field. The carts had fireworks in them. They had a nice fireworks display during the anthem, which really added to the moment.

It was a really nice stadium and we hope to go to more games this season. There's more from the week, but I think I'll save those pictures and posts for later, I've got to go give Logan a bath while Damon is still taking a nap. :)