Rollin' with the Tide!

Due to the television schedule the Alabama/Auburn game was moved to Friday this year instead of Saturday.  This was looked upon very poorly by everyone from us to Coach Saban.  Since the game was scheduled for a 1:30 PM kick this meant that we had to miss part of Thanksgiving to drive to Montgomery so that we wouldn't have to get up before dawn on Friday to make the drive.  We were so thankful that we got to get that extra sleep but we were sad to leave Charlotte for an extra night.

Friday morning we woke up and got on the road to try and avoid as much traffic as possible.  It was a fairly smooth drive until we were trying to get off the interstate into Auburn.  At that point traffic got pretty heavy but it still wasn't the worst that I've ever been in.  We got a pretty close parking spot at a church that only cost us $15 as opposed to the $40 that some people were charging to park in their front yard! See, we got a great deal on Black Friday! :)

Coach Saban before the game

If you watched the game you know that it wasn't the game we were hoping for.  We were pretty tense all game afraid that the trick plays that Auburn was throwing out would cause our guys to not be able to rally.  I think my Dad was the most worried of all since I didn't want to go to the game at all (if you know me at all you know that I AM NOT a fan of Auburn and I wasn't relishing a trip to that town) and he promised me that it would be a great game and we would win.  So when things weren't looking so good he wasn't sure he was going to be able to face me since I had to leave Charlotte to come!  Thankfully, it didn't come to that! :)  (But, if it had, Daddy, I still would have appreciated the opportunity to go so thank you.)

After a breathtaking final drive we finally got what I came for.  A win in Auburn.  I'll tell ya, it was sweet.  Rammer Jammer has never tasted so good.  Here are some of our celebration pictures from after the game!

Our family and my parents friend Lyn

With the scoreboard in the background!

Some of the Seniors and a few other players

We made pretty good time back to the hotel and enjoyed a fun dinner with my parents.  Then, this morning we got on the road early to go and get our baby girl!  It was fun to wake her up from her nap and see her smiling face!!  She did great with her grandparents.  Thank you so much Kay, David, and Kevin for keeping her!  It helped knowing that she was in such capabale hands!