Happy Birthday Jesse!

For my birthday this year, I was taken out of my bed at five in the morning on the 8th of November. I was driven to the nearby airport and had no clue where we were going. My sneaky wife checked in our bags while I parked the car. However, I found out where we were going when the bag checking lady said "So these two go to Minnesota, correct?" Alicia was pretty shocked that the secret she had kept so well was revealed and still tried to tell me that we were going to Arizona (where our connecting flight was). However, it was to no avail. I put two and two together and since she had gotten me a Minnesota Vikings gym bag, I knew we were going to a Vikings game!

Adrian Peterson.... TOUCHDOWN! Awesome game, even Alicia liked it!

My ridiculously good-looking wife after an insanely close football game.

I'm pretty sure we won't make the next home game for the Vikings, but it's against the bears as you can see. If you look really closely towards the bottom of the picture you can faintly make out the final score-- Vikings 28, Packers 27.

I think at the point this picture was taken the Vikings must have been losing. You can tell by the guy who is in the top right-hand corner's face.

This game was the 111th straight sell-out game at the metradome for the Vikings.

She may look sweet and innocent but she was telling off the Packer's fans who dared to come to the game. In fact she verbally abused one guy so badly that after the Packer's missed what would have been the game-winning field goal, he was no where to be found... I had to tell her to calm down like 50 times.

Here are those people you get at every game who refuse to sit down even though they paid good money for their seats. It didn't matter whether there was a timeout (as the picture indicates), halftime or any other stoppage of play. I think these people deserve their own seatless section.

My wife and I and one of the Packer faithful that Alicia verbally routed.

This is before the game just outside the Metradome. I think it was right at 32 degrees, a day of tropic proportion for Minnesota natives. Unfortunately, the only included one of us.

This is also just outside the Metradome.

I got this shirt as a birthday present the night before the game. I faithfully wore it under my sweatshirt.

These are more birthday presents. Apparently the baby is going to like her daddy :-)

Really really like her daddy

And of course she will be a Vikings fan, decked out in Vikings gear.

This is what I like to think of as my Antonio Banderas impression with a Twins cape/fuzzy blanket.

More of the blanket.

This is just the roller coaster inside that one mall we went to located in the heart of Minnesota

And this is Lego Land, Minnesota!

We got these ice creams for free for agreeing to post the video below on YouTube! Pretty sweet huh?

This guy had some mad skills with his ice cream. He thought it was so cool that people from California were going to post him and his unique talent on YouTube.

Another video of the ice cream tossing team in the Mall of America.