Corona Virus Quarantine Day #319: Super Bowl Sadness: Sunday, February 7, 2021:

The Dorsey, Hall, Gile crew had a Super Bowl gathering tonight. My nephew Pete selected this for his Christmas present from Grandma and Grandpa and it was a blast.

The party was complete with delicious food, party bags and even sparkling cider with champagne flutes to celebrate (hopefully). Sadly, we didn’t get to celebrate but we did get to have fun family time that has been missing from our lives for a long time.

I will share lots of photos and a few thoughts about the game.

First of all, it’s important to celebrate all the decor our children provided. The kids have been drawing Chiefs pictures for weeks. I loved their excitement for the game, it was pretty special and they have no idea how lucky they are to grow up with their teams in Championship games like this on the regular. My favorite picture was Fletcher’s (bottom right) where he drew Patrick Mahomes throwing himself a touchdown (that he catches himself) all while holding the championship trophy. At least, this is how he explained it to me.

Grandma completed the goodness of the day by bringing football themed party bags for all the kids, a cheese ball shaped like a football and the noise makers. An observation…whoever invented these bad boys clearly didn’t have kids and wanted to punish anyone who did have kids. Also, that person should be in prison, because they are a criminal invention.

In case you were unclear about how loud an annoying these suckers are…here is video proof.

The barn is a gift from GOD on days like today. The cold, the kids…all of it. It’s a great place to exert some energy and have some fun. We had a mean family basketball game going for awhile there. We also played dodgeball and some football.

Some video of the fun we had during this get together. Our kids are so lucky to have so many cousins to have fun with. For reference, no one was injured in the filming of this video.

Just some photos of the kids hanging out on what seemed like the longest day ever. The game really needs to start at 12 or 1pm (I’d even settle for 10am). Notify the NFL please. Let’s make it happen.

The Dorsey, Hall, Gile crowd pulled out all the stops to help the Chiefs to victory. Sadly, none of our efforts were successful. Including this beautiful rendition of “who let the dogs out?”

Our meditative efforts didn’t seem to work either….

Our prayers didn’t do the trick either…

Our Chiefs chants were also not helpful. Such a bummer. At least we made memories!

We even flipped our shirt around in a rally effort.

The only thing any of this successfully did was alert my watch (numerous times) that the noise level would damage my hearing. I was acutely aware of this already.

We drank our sparkling cider even despite the loss.

The best part of our day was celebrating Miss Fiona Bell’s birthday a week early. With everyone together it made sense to do it now as getting everyone together again the following week would be a challenge. She selected a Mahomes cake and it was delicious mainly because I had a friend’s 15 year old make it for us! She did awesome!

A little happy birthday singing!

I will keep my post game observations for another day. I am just grateful that we got an opportunity to be in the game, cheer on our home town team and gather as a family for the first time in forever (cue Anna and Elsa, or at least I started singing it).