A blog post - hooray!

So much has happened since I've last blogged, so I'll try to get everyone up to speed. Going all the way back to January, we celebrated Luke's 2nd birthday. We had friends and family over to our house for lunch and then headed to the firestation! The firemen gave us a tour of the station and even let us hop up on the truck!

Then, everyone came back to our house to help Luke open presents and eat cake.

As if that wasn't enough in one day, we squeezed in an Auburn/Kentucky basketball game. Although Auburn gave the Wildcats a close game, we ended up losing. We did see Ashley Judd though. Pretty cool!

Happy New Year from the Outback Bowl!

Tim and I were fortunate to take a trip to Tampa to ring in the New Year and watch Auburn play in the Outback bowl. With a second baby on the way in May we know this is probably the last trip we will take by ourselves for awhile. Paw Paw graciously watched Luke while we traveled. We had so much fun meeting up with Walt and Cat. These pictures are from the parade through Tampa's Ybor City. Auburn and Northwestern's band played and there were tons of floats tossing out candy and beads. We rang in the New Year with Mike and Debbie in downtown Tampa. We also walked on the beach. Can you believe we were able to put our toes in the water in January? The temps were in the mid 70s. However, notice our gear in the next picture. Yes, the weather was less than cooperative during the game. It was chilly and rained intermittently throughout the game. No fun! But, thankfully Auburn won the game (of course, it only took three times) and it was well worth it!

Tampa was a fun city for a bowl game. We felt like the bowl game was the "big" event in the city for the day. We've been to Orlanda and it seems like the bowl game gets lost in the city with Disney World and other events happening in the city.