SONG OF THE SOUTH
This house is across the street for my parents (it doesn't show it very well) but I'm in LOVE with Louisiana oak trees and I want SOO bad to have one in my yard one day! True southern setting!
This past weekend Kent was going to Utah/Idaho to do some recruiting for work. So I decided I was going to head home for the weekend to go to the LSU VS. AUBURN GAME!!!!!! My weekend seemed like it was busy but it was VERY fun:
Thursday: Drove in with Boston crying majority of the trip. I think he was part constipated and part feeling bad from his little cold.
Friday: Mimi, Boss and I went shopping...ALWAYS FUN, we had lunch at my favorite mexican restaurant with Papa and Mimi at NINFA's, my uncle Mike and Aunt Jill and their girls came in that afternoon for the weekend and visited with them and their family.
Saturday: GAME DAY!!!!!!!! Kristin, Chad and the girls (AND baby BOY to come!) had driven through the night and arrived around 8 that morning...SOOO glad they came even though it was a quick trip. Then I went to an early lunch with my best friends from high school Bethany and Tina. SO fun to catch up with them for a little bit! My friend Katie was back in Louisiana to bless her baby and they came over to Baton Rouge for the game. Left for the game at like 6ish (game started at 8) and LOVED hanging out in Tiger Stadium for the night watching LSU beat Auburn in the last few seconds of the game!!!!!!! This night we got home around 1 am...TOTALLY worth it though!
Sunday: Woke up at 6:30 am to get ready to head to Thibodeaux for Katie's baby blessing in their ward. I got to visit with old friends in their ward which was really nice. I headed back home and got a shocking call from Kristin letting me know that in Jackson,MS on their way back to Kansas (yes TRUE LSU fans coming for gameday then heading back 12 hrs the very NEXT day!) they got in a bad car accident! I was VERY freaked out but luckily everything was okay with them. SOOO this meant that Mom and I dropped Boston off at Grandma's, who was SOO sweet to watch him last minute for us, and then headed 2 1/2 hrs to Jackson, MS with an extra car for them to drive the rest of the way to Kansas. We got back late that night, picked up Boston and again got to bed one more night.
Monday: This was a little more relaxing. I was supposed to leave this day but I was so tired of driving I wasn't about to drive back to Dallas just yet. S0 instead I finished posting some of my mom's old furniture items on Craigslist, finished painting her bar stools, went to Baby's R US to get toys for Boston for the trip home to avoid the crying, hung out with Mimi and Papa, and watched Dancing With the Stars.
Tuesday: I was planning on leaving when Boston woke up but somehow I hung around until noon...oh well. I got on the road and headed home to my husband! Boston did better...still had a few moments of screaming but it was better. We only had to stop once and I felt like we got home quicker than expected.
Ok so you're probably sick of reading about my little trip to Louisiana! But all in all it was a fun little trip! I'm gald I got to see my Uncle Mike and Aunt Jill and their girls since they haven't even seen Boston since he was born! And most of all I it was GREAT going to the LSU game! There is NO PLACE like TIGER STADIUM on a Saturday night!!!!

Mimi took the grandkids on a walk around the neighborhood--she's so sweet to them.


Hangin out in the stroller Sweet Rylee with Boston--he LOVES her!

TIGER STADIUM ON A SATURDAY NIGHT

Mike XI making his rounds around the stadium Kristin and I sportin our lucky LSU T-shirts (they have won everytime I wore this...that's every week...minus the UK game and I totally blame it on me not wearing my shirt!)

Tailgating is HUGE..I MEAN HUGE at LSU! These were two of the million RV's down there showing their true LSU pride! Crazy LSU fan...yes this is a MAN sporting an LSU cheerleading outfit. He was also sporting cowboy boots...he may have been a little tipsy but I'm not sure.....
Going home, as well as everytime I go home, makes me really miss the southern feel of Louisiana. It really is different than any other place! Being at the LSU game made me miss it SOO much! There is TONS of energy and everyone around you becomes your friend! I LOVE IT! I always tell Kent that ONE day we're going to move back and have our big French Chateau house with a beautiful oak tree, having a crawfish boil with our southern friends (I guess those who aren't southern are invited too...), with season tickets to the LSU football games!