Rolling with the Tide!

Well, we decided to be the greatest parents in the world tonight and take our children to the Alabama vs. Georgia State game in Tuscaloosa.....on a school night!! Sweet Carson sat this trip out and got to spend some quality time at Doc & G's house. She was so excited to have ALL the toys and total free rain of the house, without her siblings taking things or telling her what to do. In fact, she was so excited that she nearly sprinted to her G and gave her the biggest hug and then turned to me and said, "Bye, Mommy!" Gotta love that!

Stephen & Langston were so pumped to go to the game, it was fun to listen to them talking about it on the way to Tuscaloosa. We left straight from carpool pickup and headed to T-town to take in the festivities on the quad and walk around and see everything. Of course, with it being a later game (6:30 kick-off), it was dark early and one of my little football lovers was dying to get into the stadium. I honestly can say that only one time before tonight (and that was for the BCS Championship in Pasadena last year), walked in to the stadium a full hour before kick-off! But we did and they loved it. We got to watch pre-game practice and pick out all of our favorite players on the field and they got so excited when the team finally ran out of the tunnel for the game.

We were excited for Langston to be at her first Alabama game and she was happy to be there. Stephen tried to tell her everything that was going to happen.....she was just happy to have the $4 houndstooth shaker she just had to have when we saw them selling them on the quad. We had to have a few lessons on proper shaker handling while in your seats. She did pretty well, only one or two near eye injuries! Haha! They both did great at the game, especially considering they are usually in bed reading stories at the time of kick-off. We had only planned to stay to halftime, which we stuck to and which was quite a disappointment to Stephen, he really wanted to see the whole game, but hey...it was a school night, right! Here are some pictures from a most fun evening!

Langston's first time to go to a game!

Of course when we walked up to the quad, wa-la! We came across the band prepping for their pre-game festivities and Langston managed to find a few friends to pose with her! She actually found several....anyone wearing a sparkly outfit or carrying pom pons were pointed out, but she chose to have her picture taken with the cheerleaders because she was wearing her cheerleader outfit too. She was so proud!

This is Stephen with the World's Best Kindergarten teacher in the WORLD!! He loves Mrs. Waud and knows that she sits very close to our seats. He was looking for her the minute he walked in to the stadium and spotted her when she came up the stairs. I think it was nearly impossible for her to miss him as he was jumping up and down yelling her name! She was so sweet and came to sit with us for a few minutes. He thought that was so cool!