Roll Tide and Poor Little Bullet!

Saturday was such a fun day!  We picked up Emma Taylor's friend K.K. and Heather, Harrison and I headed to Tuscaloosa to do some tailgating before the Alabama game.  We met Karen, Kaydee and Luke at the tailgate spot and set out the food.

We had quite a spread!  I think we need a bigger table!

The boys played football in the adjacent field while we got everything ready.  Harrison was in heaven playing football with Jake, Ty and some of Courtney's friends.

K.K. and Emma Taylor were their cheerleaders!

Justin, Jake and Ty joined us shortly after we got there.  I snapped a few photos before we ate.  By this time Courtney, Paige and Morgan had joined us.

We have a photobomber in this picture!

We didn't have tickets to the game, but we hopped on the shuttle bus and headed over to the Quad for a little pre-game excitement! 

K.K. and Emma Taylor were ready with their Alabama "A" on their face!  Everybody was an Alabama fan today!

The kids were waiting for the band to go by.



There comes Big Al!

ET and K.K. with one of the beautiful majorettes.

The band came by chanting "Roll Tide."

It was really cool to see them...the Million Dollar Band!  Wish we could have heard them play!

On our way to the stadium, there were lots of people selling tickets.  Karen very generously bought two tickets so Harrison and Heather could go in.  Harrison really wanted to see the game, or at least part of it!

How cool was that??

The girls wanted a few pictures taken on campus.  K.K.'s family are Ole Miss fans but her uncle is an Alabama fan.  Her mom wanted her to have some pictures taken and text them to her uncle so he could see she was on the Alabama campus.

Here they are in front of the Bear Bryant statue.

Karen, the girls and I were sitting on the wall here and a man came along and gave us two free tickets to the game.  Wow, that was nice, though I'm sure he was ready to go in the game, couldn't sell the tickets, and dumped them.  We sure appreciated it!

We gave them to the girls so they could go in. 

Doesn't that look fun?

None of them stayed too long.  They said it was hot.  Actually it was an absolutely gorgeous day...perfect for football. 

On our way back to the tailgate spot, we saw a pig on a leash.  You just never know what you'll see in the Quad!  The girls wanted to stop and pet it.  Its name was Pickles.

It was such a fun day spending time with family.  Cameron had a football game Saturday morning so he missed all the fun, though he got to spend the night with his friend Russ so he was happy too.

We headed home and on the way the girls pulled off their Alabama stickers only to find they had a little suntan which left the "A" on their cheeks.

What a nice souvenir of a fun day!

We had to have Bullet's eye removed yesterday.  He had an eye infection and Doug took him to the vet last Friday.  He's been putting antibiotic in it since then but his eyeball ruptured over the weekend so it had to be removed.  He seems fine and is adjusting to it.

His stitches will come out next week and hopefully the cone can be removed at the same time.  It breaks my heart for him but I know he'll be okay.  It probably hurts Doug and me more than it does him!