PSF and more Auburn football

This week Cecily has teamed up with Lolli at Better in Bulk and together they have brought Photo Story Friday to a new dimension.

I know there's actually nothing amazing about this picture.

I'm just really not that great a photographer.

(Although I would be if I had a better camera and learned how to do things with it that include using vocabulary words such as lens, shutter, and apertures.)

I took this picture in September 2008. It was the first Auburn game of the worst season ever season and I was 9+ months pregnant with Charlie.

However, we are on week two of a new season with a new coach and Auburn is undefeated (yes, I am aware we've only played one game, but undefeated is undefeated) so I just had to post a football related photo!

I did actually edit this picture a little bit using all the limited knowledge great Picasa skills I possess.

For me, it's the emotion and sentiment that I love about this image.

Auburn football and tailgating during football season is one of the first traditions Alex and I began as a couple after we were married. Alex is fortunate enough to go to the majority of home games and the kids and I tailgate frequently and attend at least one and sometimes two games each year.

When I look at this picture:

• I think about how much Jack loves to wear his football gear.

• I think about walking to the stadium singing our fight song and cheers and how, for most of the season, it's usually hotter than hell, but we don't care and we're just having a blast.

• I think about how Melody is getting older and more into it as well. She loves wearing her cheerleader outfit and chants right along with us. Charlie's clapping along too and it won't be long before Alex is teaching him how to catch a football.

• I think about how much we love our university and how we spend a lot of the tailgating time just talking about college experiences and telling and re-telling stories.

• I think about how much I love to go back to Auburn every year where each fall we meet up with old friends who we haven't seen since the previous fall.

• And despite the fact that I do not like to think of my kids growing up in any fashion, I think about how much Alex and I want them to go to Auburn too so we can keep this tradition going!

We have our first conference game this week when we play Mississippi State.

Unfortunately, I'll miss the game.

Fortunately, I'll be in Cancun on a romantic vacation with my husband and probably won't be thinking about football. Hopefully he won't be thinking about football either.

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

(not quite) Wordless Wednesday and Shoe Tying

Tuesday was a big day for Jack!



So, did he do it?

Of course he did!

True Story Tuesday and how to fool your husband

My husband was thrilled when we bought a house with a finished basement and immediately dubbed it the Man-Cave.

Over our past 2+ years in this house the Man-Cave has slowly morphed into the Dog-Cave/Man-Hole.

Alex didn't want a place to burp and scratch in peace relaxing, testosterone filled room as much as he wanted a place to dump all his junk and keep his dog. Anyone who knows me in real life, knows that's just not gonna fly. Over the past two years the Man-Cave has simply become unlivable. It's just a mess and more of a junk room than a Man-Cave. It reeks of dog and, in the past few months, the dog has succeeded in destroying the carpet in his quest for a perfect bed.

Here is the carpet in the back corner of the Man-Cave.

We have been talking about making some changes to the Man-Cave and have finally started this weekend.

The two main changes we are immediately making is new paint and a new floor.

We recently had our family room painted a light pale yellow color (Lantern from Sherwin Williams to be precise). I told Alex that I wanted the basement painted the same color. I like rooms to flow well and it's a cheery, light color which will certainly lighten up a dark a basement.

His immediate response to this was, "Yellow is not a manly color and certainly not appropriate in a Man Room."

I told him to think of a few manly colors he would like and he said he would get back to me.

I spent the next day thinking about how I could trick my husband lovingly convince my husband that my way was better.

*lightbulb*

I took the swatch of color and a pair of scissors and cut the color name off the top.

Later that night, as we are sitting in the family room chatting, I casually say, "I think I found the perfect, manly color for the Man-Cave."

Alex looks at me with a skeptical expression.

I hand him the swatch.

His skeptical expression does not change.

"That color is called Beer Foam," I say.

"Now that's more like it!" Alex responded.

And that, my friends, is how true compromise works.

War Eagle!

We rang in the 2009-2010 college football season yesterday in true form; tailgating!

We had a blast wearing our Auburn gear




Looking for bugs on trees


And then climbing the trees despite the bugs.

We got to hang out with old friends

We ate barbecue and brownies

And the best part was the final score:

Auburn 37
LA Tech 13

A far cry from most of our games last year.
I'm glad Auburn finally decided to play some football again.
Waaarrrrrr Eagle! Hey!

PSF - finally, after months of waiting

FOOTBALL SEASON IS UPON US!!!!!!!!

Win or lose, we will always be true to our Auburn Tigers!!!


War Eagle!!!!

War Eagle, fly down the field
Ever to conquer, never to yield

War Eagle, fearless and true
Fight on you orange and blue
Go! Go! Go!

On to vict'ry, strike up the band
Give' em hell! Give 'em hell!
Stand up and yell
HEY!

War Eagle, win for Auburn
Power of Dixie Land

Waaaaaaaarrrrrr Eagle!!! Hey!!!

And for this week, Go Hokies!

WW - I knew she'd walk right in without even a backwards glance.

(Not the best picture, I know, but it was taken through the windshield.)

the camera and the sprayground

If you have kept up with my blog for the past few weeks, you'll know that I have been looking for a new camera.

After much looking and much debating and much list-making, we have decided to get two cameras.

I really want a DSLR (yes, I know I'm no photographer, but I can learn!). Alex just likes the convenience of a small, compact point and shoot.

Like any smart, married couple; we compromised! We agreed that we would get a small, inexpensive point and shoot now and then a higher-end camera around Christmas. Now, Alex does not want to take a higher-end P&S out of the running, but I'm pretty much married to the idea of a DSLR. And let's be honest; I'm going to get one. Hubs knows how it works: a happy wife equals a happy life!

After a little looking we ended up getting a Nikon Coolpix for our compact P&S model. I was actually surprised at all the features it has and the quality of pictures.

I got the chance to really test it out when we went to the new spraygound in Roswell with our friends Amy, Kate, and Baby Brendyn. And let me just say; the sprayground is an awesome idea. Seriously, why did it take people so long to think of it and why do we only have two (that I know of) in the entire Atlanta Metro area?!

Charlie mostly hung out by this one little spout and just had a blast.



And grabbed a drink when he needed it.

Melody splashed

got rained on


and jumped to her hearts content.

What a great day with friends!