Weekend

We are still very busy in this life of ours...

We started the weekend with my parents coming into town for Bama's Homecoming. I always enjoy them coming to us. Saturday, my dad put together Baker's new bouncey rocking horse (thank you Hank and Regina). Its SO cute. I don't have a picture yet, but I will have one soon. Its just too cute. Nathan, Amy and Hayes came for the tailgating festivities and to celebrate Nate's birthday. We headed out around 1:00 to tailgate with Brent's family and mine. Again, Jeremy and Heather brought the bouncey house and TV with 4 tents, food, kid tents ect..It was perfect for all the kids with us! They all played so hard.


Auburn won in a fun and high scoring game! It was better than I expected for sure.

My dad, Brent and Glenn went to the game and we all packed up and headed home with the babies. I was asleep before halftime of Bama's game.

Sunday, we headed to Birmingham to see baby Alexis, born Thursday.


Lauren and Brandon are great parents already! We were glad to see them too.
Baker Man had fun running around their house.


Brandon and B Dozen


Then, we came back to Tuscaloosa and Baker and I went to our church Fall Festival. It was alot of fun. They had lots of boothes, food and "acts" on the stage. The kids I teach dance actually performed as well. I was very pleased with the festival.
This guy is hard to keep up with these days...hence the lack of pictures in all of our weekend activities.


Someone has a birthday on Thursday! I am so excited. I feel like I don't have enough planned for them (since Brent has the same birthday) but I have high expectations anyway.

Lunch Date

Sunday we had a lunch date with Elizabeth and Olivia! Elizabeth's mom hired me right out of college which I was very greatful for. She even opened her home to me when I was "homeless" in Birmingham for about a month. We have been friends ever since. Olivia is a couple months older than Baker and very sweet! We met half way between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.



Neither of them have the best facial expression in this picture, but its still cute.


Other than that, I have had strep AND tonsilitis this week and a little out of commission. We are preparing for my parents to come to Tuscaloosa this weekend for Bama's homecoming and Nathan's birthday. It should be a good time.

Easy Recipes

I rarely post recipes because I just don't consider myself a "cook" but if it is easy, I am all about it. These are a few of my "tailgate" favorites since we seem to be doing a lot of that lately. Seriously easy.

Mexi-Dip

1 lb ground beef
2 8oz. packages cream cheese
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can rotel (Lime & Cilantro flavored)

Brown meat and add to pot. Turn pot on Medium heat and add both cream cheeses. Stir until cream cheese has melted in with the meet. Add corn and rotel. Mix until all are heated well.

I think its best served with fritos, but tortilla chips are good too. Its SOOO good to me!

Heath Bar Cake Cookies

1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
chocolate chips (amount is flexible)
heath bar toffee pieces (amount is flexible)

Now, I kind of made this up, but it totally works and they are delicious. I got the cake mix cookie recipe online but you can add whatever candy you want to the cake/cookie mixture. I have also used M&Ms and loved those as well.

Mix cake mix, oil and eggs together in a bowl. It will have a cookie consistency, not cake. Once it is all mixed well (will be very thick) add the chocolate chips and toffee pieces. Spoon out small amounts onto cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Sometimes the bottoms of these will get browner than the rest so be aware of this and don't leave them in too long.

Company

"Oh, great, now they are going to score too soon"- Brent Jones

This is Brent's football strategy for close games that come down to the end and there is only like 1 minute left on the clock and your team is behind but close to scoring to take the lead. I think its total crap. SCORE NOW! Don't wait.

Anyway, this was a fun theme for our weekend for some reason. We had Betsy, Gavin and Elise come visit for the Florida v. Bama game. Betsy is a sorority sister of mine and her husband Gavin and Brent have bonded over football taunting since they met. Gavin is a huge Gator. So, it was fun to have them here.


They have baby Elise who is 1 month younger than Baker and so sweet. She was just calm and smiley the whole time. We can certainly appreciate that. B was feeling under the weather with a stomach virus and was pretty whiney for the most part. He was a champ at the tailgate though (this was before we knew he actually had a stomach virus)
Baker found some adoring cheerleaders to flirt with at our tailgate. Betsy said he looks like he is telling a story "And there was only a minute left on the clock, I went back to pass, but I didn't want to score too soon". Perfect.


We also got to see a few other college friends that were in town for the tailgate including Jeremy Adams!
Jeremy & Betsy

Jer was our neighbor at good old Eagle Point and we have been friends with him ever since. We got to hang out with him pretty much all weekend. We are thrilled about his recent engagement to Meredith!
The gameday twins (Brent really wants a matching jersey to be like Baker)


Storytime with Uncle Brent



I had to end with some non-Bammer stuff to combat the nausea. Speaking of nausea, B Dozen gave us ALL his stomach virus. I went down on Sunday, joined quickly by Brent. On their way home Elise threw up the whole way followed by Betsy that night. Apparently Gavin's stomach started hurting yesterdsay. So, not the best way to say goodbye to our guests, but at least we had fun before that!

War Eagle by the way! 5-0 and ready to go. I'm stupid.

AUsome!!

We could not have picked a better game to attend in Jordan Hare Stadium this season. There must be something about being there that makes me feel optimistic about the game as opposed to my usual gameday pessimism. See, here is my logic: If I go into it with pessimism, I will not be disappointed regardless of the turnout (well, still disappointed, but at least expecting it) That way its not such a blow.

South Carolina was the favorite going into this game which is how I like it. I also prefer games like this that don't have a ton of hype. The Clemson game was hyped to the max and you see what happened there. Anyway, I think for the viewers at home, Auburn fans were having another heart attack. I was feeling VERY confident the entire time which is SO unlike me.

It was such a back-and-forth game which is really what makes them fun. Stressful, but very fun! What a great surprise for Auburn to pull out a victory! It was worth every penny. My husband was even supportive throughout the whole game. I was nervous he would just sit there. He did draw the line at wearing anything remotely Auburn looking. Thats fine.



The feeling of being in that stadium on gameday is euphoric to me. I just love everything about it. The sea of orange and blue, tons of shakers, Aubie, the smoke and fireworks that do for the team to run out. The jumbotron of multiple highlight videos, the band ect...

I even got to see Lenzie & Susan/Mike after the game! Susan let me know that the players walk by their tailgate after the game at different times so I got to see several of them walk by. The funniest part is that Cam Newton doesnt walk, he rides his scooter. This cracks me up. I know the picture is blurry, but you get the point.
Sidenote: People bake the players cake and hand it to them as they walk by. Random.



It was great fun! Baker got to hang out with his Aunt Barbara and Uncle Rick and had a great time.

Quick Stats

The B Dozen hit 11 months yesterday and I am without camera..again. So, I will make this quick to re-cap his stats at 11 months.

- 21 lbs. 4 oz. (35th percentile)
- 6 teeth (4 on top, 2 on bottom)
- Skilled walker and picking up the pace every day
- Has a new rotation of "tricks" he does on command. For example: If we click our tongues, he will click his. We change to blubbering our lips, he follows, and so on. He has about 4-5 in the rotation and its precious to see that he knows how to follow what we are doing.
- Still cannot clap. This concerns me and I don't know why. Why won't he clap? He should have been doing this months ago.
-Throws large tantrums on the changing table.
- Just started not letting us feed him with a spoon. I am sad to say the baby food days might be behind us. I sure loved the baby food days. They were just so easy for us. Now I am going to have to plan, cook, prepare, and be creative to get him to eat.
- I have started the bottle-weaning process. He already drinks well from a sippy cup, but I have never denied him any of his allotted bottles per day. I asked his teacher to put all of his milk in sippy cups from now on. Sniff*
- His new thing is pointing. He likes to point at anything and everything he sees.
- If we would let him, he would like to hang out by the toilets or the transhcans all day. I HATE THIS. The germaphobe in me is just not ready for this kind of challenge. Sick me out.

I am getting very pumped up for this 1st Birthday Party. I have been planning this for waaayyy too long for a baby that won't know whats going on, but it should be cute anyway.

It's a party, its a party!

We spent last weekend in rehearsals and in Birmingham! I have a lot of busy stress right now. I know I mentioned that I am choreographing Secret Garden, but I am also teaching a dance on Sunday nights to kids at my church. They perform it for the big group on Sunday mornings.

Saturday we went to Birmingham where I redeemed my Groupon massage that I have been waiting for since February! It was an hour and 1/2!! Pure heaven I tell you.

Then, we kept Hayes for Nathan and Amy while they hosted a baby shower. Hayes slept the entire time so we didnt do much. I was pleasantly surprised when she woke up and I walked in her room to a very cute Auburn cheerleading uniform. War Cam Eagle Daisy!
I really really wish I had a picture of her in uniform.

My friend April that lives in Austin (along with Meg and Lauren) even came by to see B Dozen.


My friend Katie turned the big 3-0 and we celebrated at Zydeco for her party! All of our college friends (well, minus Susan, Betsy and Katherine) came in town for the event. The party was mainly a big Auburn v. Clemson game watching party with a lot of frustration from our side. Crazy game with a super fun ending. However, I will be having a nervous breakdown before this season ends.

The Birthday girl


My friends don't come in town without hitting up Starz!



Sunday morning we raced home to get to church for the dance performance. Then, to SG rehearsals, then back to church for more dance teaching. I was EXHAUSTED.