VOL Orange

We spent the day preparing for the Tennessee football game later this afternoon.  I cleaned the house, ordered dinner and made a few snacks while the kids helped me by having good behavior and playing nicely together!

I caught a sweet moment between siblings watching a video

 Unfortunately, they heard the click of the camera!

 they have both learned the "I Love You" sign and I love to see it!

 pre-game warm up game

 Cooper loves to play air hockey

 Our friends from Dallas, TX were in  for the holidays and stopped by to watch the game with us.  The dad (Dee) is a Tennessee graduate and didn't want to miss the game!  Cooper loved playing with boys (as our Bible study group is all girls) ~ Cooper, Hooper & Neyland would be T-R-O-U-B-L-E if they lived closer to each other!

 these are the only pictures I took of the gang all night

 Family photo after the win by UT

 Go Big Orange

 V-O-L-S Go Vols Go!

 Vol For Life

 

 It's great to be a Tennessee Vol!

We've had a little too much togetherness over the past 2 weeks...the fighting has begun!

Rocky Top

Our friends from NC came over for the final UT home football game of the year.  We tailgated from 9am until the game started at 7:30pm!!  We had a great time catching up with each other, eating, playing games and watching other football games on TV throughout the day!

our set up for the day!

 no tailgate is complete without corn hole

 of course, the boys had to throw the football around too

 we took a stroll down the strip to walk off lunch!

 then, we headed back so we could watch football, eat dinner and head down for kick off

 the sun went down and it got cool!

 never fear, we had a fire pit too!

 the Power T

 Justin Worley at his final home game - shaking Coach Butch's hand

 the Vols getting ready to run through the T

 Coach Butch looks intense!

 the opening kick off

 Me and my man

Third Down for What?

 Smokey was wrapped up in his blanket again this week!

It got COLD - we had on 2 shirts + a thermal shirt, jeans + thermal pants, fuzzy boots + socks, gloves, a toboggan, and heavy coats!!

 Me and Jessica in our twin toboggans!

Although the score wasn't what we wanted, we had a great time spending the weekend together again.  I'm sure they'll be many more days like this in our future!

Go Big Orange

We've happily fallen victim to the orange on Fridays tradition around here!!

Reagan

 Cooper

 Will there ever be a picture of both smiling naturally while looking at the camera at the same time?

Our Day is Full

Our day was full ~ we started the morning with a family date at IHOP and then ran errands until we could go no more.  After lunch, it was a nap for Cooper, playing for Reagan, grocery shopping for me and mowing for Greg.  More playing and riding bikes for Reagan and Cooper, then haircuts for the boys.  And finally, we went to the Big BAM Birthday Bash for September and October birthdays (and, it didn't hurt that the TN football game was on too!).  

they kids got in a little exercise while we shopped

 The party has begun

 the birthday cake

 Cooper playing dress up

 blowing out the candles

 Happy Birthday to Us ~ Anna, Jennifer, Tara, Kara, Jill, Duane & Greg

 the kids ~ Kara, Eden, Cooper Braden, Jacob, Brandon, Erin, Reagan, Lexi, & Taylor (Anna ran out of the picture)

 (most of) the guys ~ Brian, Matt, Joel, Greg, Neal

 The gang's all here!

 Reagan and Erin playing the drums

 watching the ball game

 today was Kara's 2nd birthday

 Cooper rocked out on the guitar

 having a great time with friends

 Eden

 Getting to be thick as thieves!