Kick-off Tomorrow against the Hogs... Will I be watching?

Probably not. I used to adore football season and never missed an Auburn game. Every weekend brought the opportunity to see something great happen. I've spent time on the edge of my seat watching AU games long before I knew Clint. So marrying an Auburn fan just seemed appropriate. So you would think.

Clint and I love watching the games together, but from separate rooms. Ha ha. I'm a very quite person while watching. Nervous, but quite. Clint is a VERY charismatic fan while watching. He claps his hands [hurts my ears], jumps up and down [FYI - 6'1" 230 lb guy jumping up and down will shake the house, no matter the house or the support], paces... etc. 

So basically, Clint makes me a nervous wreck while watching the games together. Since Dax arrived just in time for football season last year, guess what, I cared a lot less about AU. I still payed attention, but noticed myself staring at him throughout the whole game no matter where we were watching them. After AU lost to Vandy I'd all but given up on them - for the season that is. 

This was in September of '08 watching games at a friends house amongst the frenemies (BAMA fans).  Totally despicable I know! But this pretty much says it all.  I couldn't have cared less about what was going on around me, much less football.  Ha ha.  Not much has changed.

From The Powells

This year since Dax is very mobile I'm missing a lot of the games and seeing most of them in replays. Well, whatever Dax allows me to watch. Unless they are big games, I don't even bother.

Ask me if I care?  no. I suspected this is how it would be and I'm totally fine with that. 

Every Saturday the fun is still there of course. We have our ritual of getting up and starting on the cheese dip and pigs-n-blankets. On days we have company watching with us we cook a pig and pretty much live off of that for the next day or so. The noise in the background is sometimes exciting enough in itself. The most I've watched of a game this year was AU v. West V. The only reason I got to watch it then was b/c we were at Duck and Nicole's and their two children Braden and Kayla (KK) keep Dax preoccupied for some of it. Will I ever get to watch Auburn games by the edge of my seat again. Probably not for a really long time. But that's okay. Clint is fanatical about AU football enough for both of us. Sometimes I think too much. ;o)

Even though I care less and less about football each year, guess what?

That's right - I'll still ONLY wear orange and blue. My stomach still turns when thinking of mistakenly donning a red shirt during football season.   In this household, red is only allowed during off-season Christmas  - I kid you not.  ;o)

From Autumn 2009

From Autumn 2009

Whoa!!

Can't believe it but the former baby of the family is yet another year old!!  


Happy Birthday Ashton!  Uncle Clint and Aunt Teri wish you a very happy Day!

From The Sparks

Aunts and Uncles make the World go round!

If I'd have had the chance to pick my family, I'd pick the same Aunts and the same Uncles that I have. As happy as Dax is around them I'm pretty sure he feels the same way too. This weekend Dax got to get by his Great Aunt Sheila and Uncle Alan's as well as Great Aunt Sherry and Uncle Merrill. He also got to see Aunt Misty as well. 


Which by the way I'd like to give a big kudos to Misty and let her know how proud the family is of her. She's going back to school to get her Masters as well as become a nurse. As intelligent as Misty is she could have done well in any field she picked. I always thought she'd follow in my dad and brother's footsteps and become an engineer with her impeccable math skills. She's been my human calculator for years. Ha ha, I've always called her while out shopping to ask her how much ___ will be with ___ % off. ;o)


She has a God given talent to work with people more specifically children and teenagers (ministry) so I know that she'll be an excellent nurse when she finishes.

Dax with Aunt Sheila

From Autumn 2009

Dax with Aunt Sherry's

From Autumn 2009

Interesting...

Since I'm just now getting back into the kid's toy grove, I noticed that Holly Hobby had gotten a face lift.  Actually the new Holly Hobbie is the Great-Grand Daughter of the old Holly Hobbie from the late 70's early 80's.  You do the math... ;o)

A cake my Aunt made me for my 2nd B-day - What Holly Hobby used to look like.

From Old Photos

This is the new Holly Hobby.  I'd like to point out that in my opinion the new Holly Hobbie would have been way cooler back in the day as well.

From Miscellaneous

Got Beta Carotene?

I started to notice that Dax's nose had a yellow or orange tint to it in photos.  He's always had such a pretty complexion, but here lately his nose looks orange.  So, of course, I went straight to the computer and Googled it.  Lots of info came up all pointing to the same thing.  Too much beta carotene.

That makes perfect sense.  Dax refuses to touch greens and his favorite vegetables are (in this order) sweet potatoes, carrots and squash and he has them everyday.  When I first started feeding him solids, he loved green beans and peas.  Not anymore.  Well, he'll still eat the pureed peas and green beans.  But when it comes to trying to feed it to him in it's original form he politely spits it back out.  Or shakes his head and sweetly says "nah nah nah."  Like he's saying "thanks, but no thanks."

By the way let me express the one and only thing Dax has given me a hard time about so far.  Eating!!  Dax is still on pureed food (some I buy - lunch, the rest I just blend up myself), aside from eggs and berries and the rare occasional dish [pizza].   He'll eat any kind of bread in it's usual form; crackers and what not.  But, that's about it except for berries.  It worries me and frustrates me.  The frustration is obvious.  The worry part: I'm afraid of him losing weight if go through the process of how the experts say to correct consistency or refusal of food problem (if they don't eat it, don't feed them anything else or etc.).  I'm having a hard time executing that.


Anyone went through this same thing?  If so, I'd love some tips.  I've heard of food therapy for consistency problems but don't know where to start with that.

My mom says it's payback.  She said I was extremely finicky right up into my teens.

In the meantime I don't know why we spent money on pumpkins for decorations... we could've just dressed Dax in an orange jumpsuit and sat him on a bail of hay because at the moment he's living up to his nic name of pumpkin head.   ;o)

At least it's not this dramatic anymore...



The Orange nose

From Autumn 2009

From Autumn 2009

By the way, I'd like to acknowledge the man in the picture (My Uncle Alan; my mom's brother) as the man who single handedly brainwashed my brother and I, who came from an immediate family of UA fans, into becoming AU fans.  And we are so glad he did!!!!  ha ha.  This is a man who was fanatical about AU as Clint maybe more so.  He's wonderful.