We went to the Indiana Family Institute Annual Banquet last night, where Coach Dungy and his wife, Lauren, were awarded the “Friend of the Family” award. ( : Our friend, Kirsten, works with IFI, and she actually got us complimentary tickets for the banquet! Thanks, Kirsten! We took the opportunity to say, “Hi!” to Coach Dungy and tell him about Ruby’s view of Superbowl Sunday. He actually started crying and seemed really moved for some reason. He and Lauren agreed to take a picture with Ruby, and Lauren seemed very excited to hold her. ( : Here is Ruby with the Dungys:

Go Colts!!!

The Colts had such a good season, only to be followed up by a sucky ending. They were totally thrown out of sync all game on both sides of the ball. You have to give credit to the Steelers…Their blitzing schemes and running game were excellent today.

The thing that made it the worst was that the Colts were given two highly improbable and undeserved breaks at the end of the game, and STILL didn’t win!

Oh well…life goes on ( :

We cannot being to express our sorrow and grief on behalf of the Dungy family. This season has been so fun to watch. Last Sunday wasn’t even too much of a let down. I honestly felt the loss was absolutely necessary to prepare us for the playoffs. For such an amazing season to be paired with such a disturbing and sorrowful event is surreal.

I know that the Dungy’s are strong in their faith, and I’m so thankful they have that support. Our prayers will surely be with them.

We had an awesome time watching the Colts beat the Ravens last night. Lindsay made tacos and her famous seven layer nacho dip…it tasted so good! None of our friends were able to make it over to watch with us, but we still had fun.

The team looked really good last night. The offense and defense both got off to slow starts, but things turned around quick. Of course, we benefited greatly from three missed field goals, a dropped interception, and several untimely penalties. It was still a good start to a season in which many people are picking them to go all the way!

We made a quick trip to Terre Haute this weekend to get Peyton a new cage so that he can’t keep doing his Houdini impersonation. Winnie took Peyon’s little cage, and we took her mammoth cage for Peyton. It has a nice heavy metal bottom so Peyton won’t be able to flip it over, or he’ll at least hurt himself really bad in trying ( : Here’s what it looks like:

We also picked up the autographed Peyton Manning picture. We were very impressed with how it turned out: