[Fall Bucket List] Football Sunday

This weekend was the perfect combination of busy and lazy.

(which equals the perfect weekend in my book!)

Saturday was our niece Kayla's birthday party. We had the absolute best time eating lots junk food, decorating pumpkins, and discovering our new found love of bounce houses.

Once Mason discovered that there were Doritos and that there was a candy table with chocolate covered Oreos, it was all over. Seth and I spent the rest of the party trying to keep him from consuming his weight in Doritos. Once we were done eating lunch aka chips, we ventured outside to the bounce house. It took a little while for him to warm up to the idea of it (he spent a lot of time going in and out and in out), but once he got in, we couldn't get him out!

It was finally time to sing 'happy birthday' to Kayla so we convinced Mason to get out of the bounce house with the promise of cake. We went outside, ate our cake, and then went to decorate pumpkins. I think I was more excited than Mason as I had images of the beautiful pumpkins that I posted about on Friday in my head. Needless to say... the painting did not turn out as I envisioned. Mason hated it after 2.7 seconds and my painting was less than professional. But hey, at least our pumpkin looks cute on the table with the rest of the bunch.

Sunday was set for swim lessons and football.

And then Mason woke up with a cold.

We cancelled swim lessons, but still spent the day laying low and watching football. The Steelers are Seth's team and they had the TV slot for the 1pm game so we were happy campers. We put on our Steelers attire and were ready to cheer them on!

I still haven't found Mason a Steelers shirt so he just wore Steelers colors.

And then we attempted a family selfie and Mason wanted NONE of it.

We spent the afternoon hanging out with our friend Vickie, eating in n out for lunch, and cheering on the Steelers (who won! WOOHOO!)

And almost the icing on the cake...

I alllllllmost won the football pool that Seth's work has.

I was thisclose.

Darn Green Bay!

Made me lose by one stinkin point.

This (above) is week 6's picks. It's from a couple weeks ago, but needs proper documentation because...

I WON!

Sorry for the bragging but... I beat 6 guys who know wayyyyyyy more about football than I do.

Back story : Seth used to be the only one of the two of us who participated in his work's (non-money/non-betting) football pool (basically because I could care less about football - sorry football fans!). The guys pick who they think will win each game and assign points to the games based on how confident they are that that team will win (16 games = point ranges from 1 to 16, 15 games = point ranges from 1 to 15, etc.). Whoever has the most points at the end of the week gets to have the trophy (some random trophy they have at work - probably someone's old soccer/baseball trophy?) on their desk for a week.

Then we got married and were going on our honeymoon for two weeks and Seth would miss two weeks worth of football pools. So, what did any amazing new husband do? Let his new wife pick for him. So what did I do? I WON us one of the week's we were away! And thus began the 'Liz column' on the sheet. It's been almost four years and I've never looked back! Often, I don't do well. But sometimes, like this week, I beat the boys!

Sadly, me winning doesn't really get me anything (but bragging rights) and Seth gets to have the trophy on his desk for a week. And that's good enough for me!

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Now, tell me!

What Fall fun have you been up to?

Pick an item, celebrate Fall, and link up with us!
I would love to see how you and your family are spending Fall.

 Desiree at Macke Monologues | Stephanie at Wife Mommy Me | Elizabeth at Chasin' Mason