Congratulations Gold #5….two years undefeated & untied in Notre Dame Stadium!

Some of you probably remember last year's blog post about my dad participating in the Notre Dame Fantasy Football Camp. Well, on July 4th we headed north to South Bend again for another awesome game and even more great memories. Check out some of my favorites! 🙂 Since Rocco's was going to be closed on 7/4, John & I had dinner with my aunt and my sisters at Rocco's the night before dad's big game. They have the best pizza in South Bend and now dad's picture from last year's game hangs on their walls next to Lou Holtz, Frank Leahy and other famous ND coaches and players!

It rained early that morning but cleared up in time for all of us to head over to the stadium…

Since we got there early, I pulled out my fisheye and snapped a few cool, unique pics of Touchdown Jesus…

Here's one of my beautiful sisters, Mary…

John got a shot of my nails…:) Last year, my sisters painted their nails blue & gold for dad's game and so the day before we left, I had a few minutes to run over and get my nails filled and when I got there, they had a new shade of blue polish…so, what the heck, I went ahead and painted them blue & gold. 😀 Of course, the lady at the nail place probably thought I had lost my mind. LOL Oh, by the way…if you look closely, you can see where the logo bling idea came from. 😀 My e-ring is a heart shaped diamond…unique and girley, John did good. 🙂

We had Mazda Signs in Carmel print up this 30×40 in. banner for dad before we left and they did a fantastic job!! We surprised him with it that day after he came out onto the field for practice…he had the best looking sign of course….;)

(Rudy theme song playing here….) 🙂

#7 on the wristband, in memory of dad's friend Arty, who played for the NDFFC last year…

Us pros rarely get our pics taken…LOL…here's one of Mike, the official NDFFC photographer…he's a great sports photographer and the official Notre Dame football photographer too. I talked to his wife for awhile during half time and she's so nice!! He stays with the guys from the day they arrive until after the game so he's able to get a lot of behind the scenes shots that I love…and I'll be buying more this year I'm sure! 😀

Gold team won 21 to 0!

After the game, we all had dinner in the President's VIP box upstairs. It was delicious and the view was incredible….here's my favorite shot of dad taking it all in. I don't think he knows we got this shot…:)