Labor Day Fun

After our fun trip to Auburn, my cousin Jason, Aunt Sandy, and Raegan came to town early for our Labor Day get together.  Sunday night Andrew and Raegan had to take the mustang for a spin.

Once the mosquitoes got really bad, we went back over to my Grandma's house where Andrew and Raegan had pillow fights and played tackle until 10:30 pm!  Andrew was so wired that I almost never got him to sleep.  The next (late) morning, we went over to meet up with the rest of the family for some BBQ and honey baked ham.  Yum!  We had homemade ice cream and tons of desserts.  I made a dark chocolate cobbler that was pretty tasty.  When the kiddos were finished playing they wanted to go back to Granna and Paw-Paw's to play outside.  Gracie and Uncle played baseball with Andrew.  He's quite the little slugger!

Contact!

Take cover, Gracie!

That was a close one!

Then Raegan had her turn.

They were pretty tired, so they went back to Granny's for a little tv time with Gracie.

Before they left to head back to Tuscaloosa, we had one more request of Andrew and Raegan.  You see, when my cousin Jason and I were about Andrew and Raegan's age, someone took a picture of us holding hands as we walked down the driveway.  A local artist turned that picture into two paintings.  One is hanging in my Grandma's house and the one that was in my Great-Grandparents' house is now at Mom and Dad's.  Since Jason and I both have children now, I thought it would be neat if we did the same thing, so they could have a similar picture.  I need to take a picture of the oil painting of us and put on here, so you can see what it looks like.  But in the meantime, here's the picture I got of Andrew and Raegan.

I'll keep you posted as to when we have that turned into a painting!

Now the kids were super tired and at first they didn't want to cooperate, but it was nothing that a little bribery couldn't handle!

After Raegan left, Andrew spent the rest of the day playing with his second cousins, Will and Sam.  They had SO much fun!  It was a great day.  I love it when the family gets together and I look forward to our next "gathering."  

War Eagle Hey!

On Saturday we woke up early and got ready to head to Auburn for the big game!  We had been talking about it for a couple of weeks so we were all pretty excited.  Andrew had been walking around the house for days with a shaker saying, "War Eagle Hey!  The big day finally arrived and we packed up our tailgate goodies and Andrew helped Paw-Paw put a tiger tail on the car.  

Andrew and Paw-Paw in their all Auburn all orange shirts.  

We had a nice drive down there.  Annah and I were singing at church on Sunday so we practiced our song and then sang a little Lauren Talley on top of that.  Andrew slept for about half of the drive.  When we made it to Auburn, we found a sweet tailgate spot!  It was even in the shade, so we didn't have to set up our tent.

About 3 hours prior to game time, we started walking around campus.  I wanted to go see the new student center and some other buildings around campus.  Auburn has changed so much since I was there.  Then it was time to go get a spot for Tiger Walk!  There were tons of people there, as always!

Andrew had the best seat in the house!

When Tiger Walk was over, we headed toward the stadium.  We still needed one ticket so Andrew held up one finger.  A nice man walked by and asked if he was just going to sit in our laps.  We said yes and he just gave us the ticket for free!  (Auburn people are nice like that)  Our seats were in the North end zone on row 62 (of 63).  We had a great view.

There was a nice sunset too.  Of course I think sunsets look better in Auburn! :)

Me and Mom

Me and Annah

Me and Andrew

He had so much fun at the game.  He loved it!  

He got really silly with his Aunt Gracie toward the end of the game.  

He kept asking me to take all kinds of pictures of him.

"Get some....WHAT?....Yardage...OH"

Dad took a group shot of us by the scoreboard...or at least half of it!

Obviously, Auburn WON, so it was a good night.

We told Andrew that it was now time to go to Toomer's Corner and throw toilet paper in a tree.  He got this really confused look on his face and said, "What?!"  After a quick lesson from Gracie, he was a pro!

His first toss!

He kept saying, "Mama, this is AWESOME!"

CHEESE!

We walked back to the car and Andrew fell asleep before we made it out of the parking lot.  Annah and I fell asleep shortly thereafter. We finally made it home at 2 am.  It was a LONG day, but we had so much fun and we all enjoyed ourselves.  I had not been to Auburn in 3 years and it felt good to be "home."    WAR EAGLE!