Aggieland Adventures

Well I seem to be in an on again off again relationship with blogging...not sure what the deal is but I'm back to trying to catch up again!

Several weeks ago we took a trip to Aggieland and it was quite a bit of traveling for a weekend trip but it was so worth it and we had an absolute blast!

To share our love for Aggieland with Riley and have her take to it was awesome...I can officially say the brainwashing is in full effect and we wouldn't have it any other way!

We spent a lot of Friday traveling but made it into College Station around 8:30 that night. We stayed at a family friend, Larry's, beautiful home with my parents. As soon as we arrived we had Riley tell Grammie and JoePa that she was going to be a big sister! My mom screamed and it took a few minutes for my dad to catch on but we all celebrated! Larry had made dinner for all of us and we sat down to a great meal and relaxed a bit before we headed to Midnight Yell!

Riley was a trooper and due to the time change Midnight Yell was only 10:00 on her time so it wasn't quite so bad!

Here's all of us on our way to yell!

We watched the band march in and they were all dressed in costumes for Halloween so that was pretty funny to watch!

We found our spot on the 22nd yard line for Gator 2 and started to explain all things Aggie to Riley!

We met the Walkers at Yell and had so much fun seeing them!

Riley started to get tired during Yell but once it was over and we were down on the field she got her 4th or 5th wind and decided to run like crazy all over the field with Grammie!

We called it a night and all headed back to get some sleep. Riley didn't sleep too well and Jason ended up in her room in bed with her for several hours...that was after I nudged him and said "it's your turn" since she had woken up several times before. He ate up the snuggle time with her!

Saturday morning we got ready for the big game vs. Texas Tech and Riley played in the bar area. We couldn't get her out of here and she roped every single person in the house into coming in and playing with her...the ice machine was her fav!

Me and Jason before the game!

Our Aggie girl...stylin' and ready to go!

We headed to the Quad which brought back so many memories...remembering Jason getting yelled at all the time his freshman year to him wearing his Senior boots and yelling at all the freshman!

We met up with the Walkers and the Camerons before the march in!

The girls!

The guys!

On our way to the stadium Riley got her face painted...so cute!

She also got to play on some awesome bounce houses and had a blast!

We watched the Aggie Band march in and then headed to the Gator 2 BBQ...Riley and I snuck across the street to see the Hanlons....here's me and Whitney!

Aunt Whitney filled Riley's belly with all kinds of treats...I was honestly concerned she might get sick from all the sugar but she survived!

Here she is with a container of Candy Corn and a huge cupcake...which one to eat first?

After all that fun we headed into the stadium for the game and boy was it a great game! There is not much better than beating the hell outta Texas Tech!

Riley had fun watching in the binoculars with JoePa...I can't wait until she's a little older and JoePa can tell her all about the days when he played football at A&M!

Riley caught on to all the yells and she learned how to "hump it"...for all of you who aren't Aggies you just won't understand!

During the first half Riley needed to use the potty and while she was on the potty she completely passed out laying on my shoulder...it was the funniest thing! I promptly cleaned her up as she cried "I don't want to get off the potty...I just want to nap". Once I picked her up and laid her head on my shoulder she was out...imagine how I looked walking out of the bathroom stall with my kid completely passed out. We had a tired girl on our hands. I took her into the Zone Club and let her sleep for a bit but she woke up when the Aggie Band came out for halftime so we went to watch them!

After watching the band we headed to the other side of the stadium to hang out in the box of some of my parent's friends! Riley got to watch the game with John Byron and they were a hoot! He was enamored with her!

We watched the rest of the game in the box and left with a victory..whoop!

After the game we spent quite some time with Paul and Jenn trying to get to our car that was parked off campus...the traffic was CRAZY! Eventually we made it and then we headed to the Gator 2 50th reunion!

There were quite a few people but not as many from Jason's class that we would have like to have seen...it's so hard when they are scattered all over the world and lots of them deployed!

We did get to see Scott and Laurie and that was such a treat!

Riley loved having Scott chase her all over the place!

We got to meet sweet baby Logan...such a miracle!

Me and Laurie!

After the reunion we headed to a Halloween party my parents friends were having and when we walked in I got the biggest surprise. My sweet friend Kaycee, whom I met freshman year at Fish Camp and who was in our wedding, was at the party and I had no idea. She just walked up to me and I screamed and gave her a huge hug...fun times!

This Halloween party is the real deal and while we had planned on coming in costumes our day was just too full to make that happen. It was already late when we got there but we had to say hi to everyone and I knew Riley would love seeing Finooga ("Fiona") and Shrek! Phoebe was a great Fiona!

My parents dressed as a Budweiser and the Budweiser dog...what a great idea!

Riley had to show Fiona that Shrek was at the party too...she was so cute because she really thought Dale and Phoebe were Shrek and Fiona!

We headed back to Larry's after the Halloween party and the Walkers met us over there to hang out...we finally had a minute to just chill and catch up with them.

Sunday we slept in as long as Riley let us and Larry had fixed a great breakfast for us. Once we ate and packed everything up we hit our favorite stores to shop for some Aggie gear!

Here's Riley riding Bevo!

After shopping we headed to La Bodega for lunch and then headed back to Houston for our flight home. A whirlwind trip to say the least but it was so much fun!

Here's some video of our Aggieland adventure as well!

Our Aggies have been making us proud this year and we can't wait to go back!