Saturday morning we had our traditional gameday biscuit from Jacks and started getting ready for the day. We peeked outside and found a meeting of the minds. I'm still not real sure what they were looking at but it must have been very interesting.
Nana, Hannah Claire and Mommy did some shopping before all of the festivities kicked off. Since the game was so late, the parade didn't start until 12:00. We headed over to see the parade. It was good but I'm disappointed that the sororities don't do floats anymore. That is the main reason to go see the parade and now they just walk. FYI ladies, we don't really care to see you walk. I need to see some effort put forth in decorating a huge 18 wheeler flatbed truck with lots of chicken wire, pomp and spray paint, like we did when we were in college. Okay, I'm off my soapbox. Hannah Claire was excited none-the-less.
After the parade we went to the quad to meet up with some friends. Alicia works in an office Shane calls on and it was great to see her, her huband Ray and their buddy Scott. We usually see them at least once every football season. Morgan Leigh who works with me is an Ole Miss alum and was in town for the game. HC loves her some Morgan Leigh, although she was getting fussy and sleepy.
We then headed over to sorority row to check out the lawn decorations. This is my favorite thing about homecoming (maybe because I was on the lawn decorations committee while I was in college). I must say, I did not think the best one won this year. Zeta got 3rd. They should have at least been 2nd. Poor HC never saw the decorations this year. She was too busy snoozing and there was no chance we were waking her up.
The Pi Phi house had some cool statues to get your picture made with. Check out the white Mark Ingram!
After a pretty good nap, Hannah Claire needed a little snack. There may have been more cheese puffs on her face and hands than actually got in her mouth.
Nana got all of us matching shirts from a super cute shop in Tuscaloosa. It is owned by a sorority sister of mine and she has the cutest stuff. We didn't all wear our shirts to the game but we did put them on to take a picture.
Now, we may not win parents of the year for taking our two year old to a game that kicked off at 8 p.m. However, we did it and she had a blast! I guess we passed the cranky phase and got to pure delirium. Prior to kickoff we got a family shot.
Hannah Claire was cutting up throughout the game. She and Nana did some serious cheering (and laughing).
Of course we brought some things to keep her happy including ol' crazy suckers and gummies. Gummies make her giddy.
Pappy shared his binoculars with HC. I'm pretty sure her eyes were closed the entire time she looked through them.
As the night went on the temperature started dropping some. We had to pull out the hat. This provided lots of great entertainment too.
Mr. Bob who sits on the other side of Pappy didn't make it to the game because it was so late. The people who came left at halftime to go sit with someone else they knew. It worked out perfect so HC could have her own chair. She kicked back and enjoyed the game.
This picture explains itself. I'm not sure who did it but HC didn't mind letting them know it was "stanky".
She started hitting her breaking point late in the 4th quarter. Some folks in front of us had left so HC & Daddy got down on the rail to watch some football. What a sweet picture!
I was very nervous about how the game would go. Hannah Claire did better than we could have ever predicted. She even did good the following days with very minimal crankiness. We said when we had her that we would not drastically alter our life because we have a child and that she would have to learn to go with us and do as we do. Well, she did and she did great! We don't make a habit of keeping our kid up until midnight but I am so thankful for her ability to go with the flow and enjoy herself wherever she is.
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