MSU vs. LSU

It's officially football season!  This past Thursday, our family loaded up from all our different towns to tailgate at our first home game of the season!  Russ and I spent the entire day in Starkvegas.  First on the agenda...new clothes!  We were completely unprepared for the chilly and fabulous temps.  A quick stop to the Lodge cured that real quick!  Ha!

Me and Jamie

The Square Cupboard nearly shut down as Jamie and I both attended the gameday festivities.  Not really.  Her sister-in-law covered for us, and I'm so glad Jamie was able to FINALLY come back to a football game!  I think she and Charlie had a great time.

Charlie and Jamie

In case you can't tell by looking at the pictures, the LSU game was a WHITE OUT!  That means all the fans were to white out the stadium!  I think it's safe to say we contributed.  I heard Kristin pretty much put this week's tailgate together, and she did a great job!  Mama may start stepping back, and let her takeover if she's not careful.  Ha!

The women of the family

Of course, around 5, we all walked over to the Dawg Walk to watch our Dawgs enter campus and make the walk to the field house.  We even managed to get one of those "Black Bears" to ring a cowbell! 

Andy and Dustin

We enjoyed the afternoon visiting with family and friends.  We had lots of visitors, and I'm sorry that I didn't get pictures of everyone.  Hopefully, everyone will be back next week and I can grab a picture then.

Jeff, Jeff (a radiology resident with Russ), Scott (one of Russ's attendings), and Russ

Mama and Sherra

I had a fabulous surprise too!  Two of the greatest blog friends stopped by!  I was so excited to actually meet them in person!  Abby from In His Time and Joy from Confessions from a Southern Socialite have been such a precious support during our journey to parenthood.  Not to mention they are both full of personality!  The funniest part was they recognized our tailgate from pictures on the blog!  Too funny!  I wasn't even there when they first walked up.  We hope to see Joy and Abby stop by again...or stay awhile for that matter!

Me, Joy, Abby, and Jamie

As usual, our tents were full of talking, laughing, visitors, and silliness!  We only set up half our "normal" setup.  So, next week, I'm looking forward to the rest!

Kristin and Russ...no telling!

Of course, none of our tailgating fun would be a success without our matriarch and patriarch of the crew.  These two get all the credit for raising us right!  Raising us from the days of literal tailgates...off the tailgate of Daddy's Explorer.  We plan to pass the legacy down to the next generations.  It's all about the raisin'!

Mama and Daddy

We made it to Davis Wade Stadium in time to join the sold out white out in cheers of "Hail State!" and "Marooooon!  Whhiiiiiite!"  The energy was contagious!  Cowbells were ringing!  It was a True Maroon game day!

The band performed before the team ran out from the smoke led by our always faithful Bully!  Ahhhhh!  Heaven on Earth!

Team spirit is high over in Starkville these days! 

Although we didn't pull off a "W", I must say that I'm proud of the effort.  I have a few questions about time managment though.  We can say that we held the #1 defense in the nation pretty well and managed 6 points.  And, I can also say that we held a #2 team to only one touchdown...only allowing a couple of field goals.  The ending was rough.  But, I'm still "Grindin' for my STATE!"  Go Dawgs!