Super Bowl Sunday

I'm posting out of order since yesterday I blogged about Valentine's Day and today I'm blogging about Super Bowl Sunday, but I knew yesterday's post would be too long if I combined the two events.

We were in the midst of a snow storm when we left home on Sunday, and when we got on the road Jerry seriously pondered the wisdom of us going.  All the I-696 ramps in our area were closed and from the service drive we could see all the accidents on the expressway below.  We learned later that the 55 + pile-ups made national news.

Below is a sampling of what we saw from the service drive in our area [courtesy of the Detroit News].  

With the expressway closed, Jerry had to take an alternative route.  It took more than double the time to get there, but with a lot of prayers for safety, we made it before kick-off at 6:30 p.m.  

Our son, Steve, has been a Bengals fan since he was a young boy and was elated that they finally made it to another Super Bowl.  My hubby didn't want to disappoint him by not showing up.

Below is a picture of him on his 16th birthday when he asked me to make him a Bengals cake.

He brought all kinds of Bengals memorabilia to decorate Jeremy's living room and brought Bengals jerseys for all of us to wear during the game [from the collection he's accumulated over the years].  We all posed for pictures in the jerseys.

~ Jerry and Me with Steve and Jeremy ~

~ Steve, Sharon and Brooke ~

~ Jeremy, Samantha, Izzy, Landon and Ellie ~

Ellie made a Bengals drawing to go with Steve's other memorabilia.

Sharon and Brooke made yummy Bengals sugar cookies.

Arnold Palmers were in the beverage offerings.  That's the only tea I can work into this post.  ;-)

It was a fun family gathering, but if you watched the game you know the Bengals lost to the  Rams 23-20.  Steve was disappointed, but wasn't a sore loser.  He was happy that former Detroit Lions Quarterback, Matt Stafford, was finally on a winning team!  I have a feeling there'll be some kind of analogy or take away from the game that will make its way into a Sunday sermon!  ;-)

The bottle of non-alcoholic bubbly on the table never got opened in celebration, but hopefully there'll be another time to cheer them on.

Our drive back home was much better than the drive going.  The snow had stopped and the salt trucks were out to make the roads a lot easier and safer to drive on. 

Did you watch the game?