It's football time...or it was...

We had out big tailgate spread again this year...it was even bigger than last year. Old friends, new friends, family, and coworkers...It was a great way to spend the fall! If the Titans had won more, it would have been about perfect! Well, here it is in pictures...

Gary manning his massive grill with a little help from BillMitch and Megan taking a break from their own football game

Jack and Alex. Not many pictures of them this year. They were too busy playing most of the time.
John, Leiber, and Gary

Me and Erin

Me and Lindsay

Me and Amy

My cousin, Ryan and his oldest son, Cole even stopped by

Jake's ready to go play football!

In the game...Gary having fun with his two youngest boys

Mitch and Gary talking some serious football

The girls...Amy, me, Lindsay

The guys...Gary, Neal (belongs to Lindsay), and Ryan (belongs to Ryan). Let's not forget Mitch and Jake, too.

That's about it for Titans football!

More August 2010

No point in stating the obvious...I'm behind!

Anyway, here's what August held for us, other than Mitch starting Kindergarten.

Mimi and I took Mitch and Jake to the County Fair. I already knew that Mitch shared my love of rides, but this was Jake's first chance. I wasn't sure what to expect when he got on his first ride, but as usual...he didn't dissapoint! He loves them, too!
Me and my little junior farmers.

Jake and Mitch drinking their chocolate milk that they "bought" with the money earned by "working" the farm. Sad to say this was Jake's first ever chocolate milk!

Gary enterred the Music City BBQ Festival with some friends. They didn't win, but they had a great time and got entirely too many ideas! They spent 3 nights on Jeff's boat and days grilling and drinking in the August heat! The boys and I took a trip down to check it all out one night. They loved it, too!

Left to Right: Gary, Stacy, Jeff, Mark

"Two Chefs and Jeff" set up

Jake in his truest form....food on his face and sweating because he doesn't know how to sit still! I love that sweet face! :)

Mitch is serious about his BBQ!

My friend (and partner in crime), Lindsay and I enjoyed the ease of going out with only 2 kids. It's been a long time since we could run man on man defense. You would think that after years of wrangling 4-5 kids, we could keep 2 from climbing on the displays at Children's Place! The worst part is probably the fact that we both got our cameras out to snap off a few before we made them get down!

Aside from football starting, that pretty much sums up August. But football/tailgating is a post all in itself!

I ALMOST feel sorry for them...

I don't know how many of you saw the Bama/Michigan State Bowl game, but it really wasn't much of a game! Bama won 49-7!

These are some quotes from the Michigan State 24/7 Sports forum board. Even if you aren't a Bama fan, you have to love some of these...they are great!

"Julio takin' us to schoolio"

"why are they allowing Alabama to play with 35 players on defense?"

"I think their punter is currently drinking around the world in Epcot." (from the early 3rd quarter) ...just for the record, I don't understand this one...

"If we played 10 times, they would win 15"

"If Cam Newton costs $200,000 for a season, how much is a 2nd half rental?"

"and now Cousins is dead" (referring to MSU's starting QB)

"If I was our QB I would hire an attorney and sue them for negligence or intentional infliction of physical and emotional distress."

"I'm ready to accept MSU boosters paying for an offensive line. If we get caught I can deal with it."

"This is getting out of hand...an Alabama d-lineman just popped out of my TV and threw me 10 yards behind my couch."

"Do you think this is how Custer felt?"

"We're going to have a wing named after us at Orlando Regional Medical Center by the time this game finishes."

"This is embarrassing. So are we officially a basketball school again?"

"I want to know how many times in the history of organized football that teams have punted on 4th and goal"

"So this is what they mean by team speed"

"if i'm Maxwell, I fake an injury on the way to the huddle" (Referring to the backup QB, who was knocked out of the game three plays later)

"good lord. Their 4th string running back just ran through our entire defense and all we could do was swing our purses at him."

ROLL TIDE!