Football Fun and Friends!!

Since AU played so poorly yesterday, I decided to remember the good times of last weekend's AU vs. FL game. Of course the game was wonderful and we had a great win, but the best part of the day was catching up with family and friends :) We started off the day with lunch @ Cheeburger with my parents and good family friends, The Cruz's (and big Gator fans) that came up for the big game from Tampa.

After lunch we made our rounds to see other friends. My college roommate, Haylea, her precious son Graeme and sweet mom, Jane were in town and it was soooo good to see them. Haylea is due 10 weeks ahead of me with a girl to be named, Anna Chase. If I have a girl, we are hopeful that they can be future AU roomates & sorority sisters and have the same sweet memories we did.

me and Haylea....she looks great as always :)

Graeme....the cutest 2 yr. old boy I know!!

We also got to spend some time with Brooke and Corey. This was Brooke's last and only AU game this year since baby Hudson will be arriving soon. We'll be showering Brooke and Hudson in 2 weeks and I can't wait!!! Brooke and I share so many memories as well growing up together and I can't wait for our children to do the same :)

I was running out of time to see everyone, but had a quick visit with my old co-workers and sweet friends from Montgomery, Rachel and Jennifer (and their husbands and sweet Sydney- Rachel's daughter). They just opened up a new mortgage office in Montgomery and I'm thrilled for them.

me, Rachel and Jennifer

Many of my other friends I like to meet up with our either about to have a baby or just had one and weren't able to be there. Seems to be the season for babies :) After the whirlwind of visits we made it to the game. It was nice to watch one that didn't come down to the wire. I couldn't think of a better day to spend the day- family, friends and an AU win :)

AU vs. ARK....War Eagle- Win or Lose!!

only pic of the trip....sorry battery camera went dead

The only two SEC stadiums I had not been to were Arkansas and South Carolina. We don't play SC that often and Arkansas is just soooo far away. This year, Jason and I decided to make the trip to Fayetteville and I marked off another stadium. Although we are a little closer than when we lived in Montgomery, it is still about an 8 hour trip....wow!! My parents usually fly to that game, but we all decided to make a road trip of it.

We headed out of Kosciusko around 1:30 on Friday and made the 5 hour drive to Little Rock. Although we didn't have time to see much, it looks like a really nice city. We had great steaks at The Butcher Shop and called it an early night to prepare for Saturday. The game wasn't until 6, so we headed out of Little Rock around 11:00 on Saturday to make the 3 hour trek to Fayetteville. The drive was gorgeous...reminded me a lot of NE Alabama/TN...even prettier.

We arrived eager to see an Auburn win, but by the 1/2 our QB problems were evident and our hopes were dwindling. It was hard to see a loss like that having not experienced one in quite some time (this was way worse than the Clemson loss to me). Most of the Arkansas fans were very nice (you always have a few- but every school does). The stadium was great place to watch a game despite the annoying hog calls. Despite the loss, we still had a great time and were happy to support our Tigers on the road!

I'm glad to be back home this evening and hope AU can pull a win over FL next week. I guess it will be the match up of teams w/ QB problems...so it may actually be an even match up...we will see!! War Eagle!!!!

Baby Shower Fun!!!

Speaking of babies.... I recently helped host a shower for my sweet friend, Whitney Pettit. She is due with her 2nd, a little girl to be named Emory Hart in November. I think baby Emory Hart is giong to be the best dressed girl in Kosciusko!! Hopefully little baby Pope and Emory Hart will have many playdates in the future :)

me, JJ, Whitney, Rachel and Lauren

The spread :)

Exciting news!!

Most of you that read my blog already know this news, but we thought we'd make it official on our blog and announce that we are expecting!!! Little baby Pope is due April 11th :) We are beyond thrilled, excited, overjoyed, etc. This is something that Jason and I both prayed about for quite some time and we feel so blessed that God answered our prayers!!


I'm into the 2nd trimester now and my energy has kicked back in. I hope to update the blog more frequently. I found out I was pregnant shortly after our beach trip and bike race (my last blog post) and have felt like doing much of nothing since then. Falling asleep at 7:30 every night doesn't allow much time for blogging (haha).


Below are the shirts Radley and Harper wore to deliver the news to both sets of grandparents. We will see how happy the dogs are when the baby arrives.

Radley and Harper better enjoy the next few months of being our # 1 babies :)