UGA (1-0) 55 LA. Laf (0-1) 7

WOW! I'm not sure that there is much more to say about today's game. I really didn't know what to think coming into the game. We have a freshman QB and a freshman back up QB. We have a new Offensive Coordinator. I was nervous. Yes, even though it was LA Laf (or LA LA for fun). Well I was pleasantly surprised. Young Aaron Murray is pretty darn good. He made some freshman mistakes like throwing the ball to a wide open Ragin' Cajun in the endzone. Luckily he dropped the ball. LOL Murray made up for that one by running for a TD. He passes and he runs. Fun!!! Just hoipe he's careful when he takes off running. Don't want him to get hurt. As for the other QB, well his very first college pass ended in a TD. I'll take that too!!

As for the defense........................all I can say is.................................HELL YES!!!!! They were aggressive and swarming to the ball. They had 3 interceptions........................in ONE game!!! I think last year they had all of 10 for the season. One of the ints today went for a TD. Gotta love it when your O AND your D are scoring points. At one point BR got beat on a play. The D seemed to get a little complacent and LA LA (heehee) went for a long TD. Todd Grantham (our new DC) went ballistic!!! He was all over BR on the sidelines. It was great to see. He brings fire to the sidelines and to the defense. It's been too long since we've had that. In the 1st half LA LA had only one 1st down and that one was given to them due to a penalty. Our defense only allowed them five 1st downs the entire game. I LOVE that!!

We are still having penalty problems. Today we had 6 for 35 yards. This needs to be taken care of. There is no excuse for it.

Over all I am very happy about today's game. Granted it was a game we were "supposed" to win, but it's always nice to win those like we did today. It's been a long time since that's happened too. I've grown accustomed to squeaking by the teams we should be running over. I like this much better. LOL

Next week we travel to South Carolina to take on the Gamecocks. This is always a tough game for us. I'm not overly confident, but I do feel better about it than I did a couple days ago. I needed to see our defense and our new QB in action. I'm still nervous, but no fingernails have been lost so far and I'd really appreciate it if my Dawgs keep playing well so none are lost. Thanks!

Until next week..............................

GOOOO DAWGS!!!! GATA boys!!!

Oh LOOK!!!

IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!

Is it football season yet?

Just asking....................................

Nashville flood May 2010

Wow. It's been quite a weekend to say the least. Luckily we are all safe and dry at my house and the family is all good. I wish I could say the same about the rest of Nashville. It's incredibly sad. So many people have lost everything. We've had over 13 inches of rain in just 2 days. The rivers and creeks around Nashville are overflowing. As of right now the Cumberland River still hasn't crested and it is already up to 2nd Avenue. I am going to share a few pictures I've found online. I didn't take any of these pictures. I will also share a couple videos from the local tv station and a Flickr slide show. Apparently the National Media is not really paying much attention, but folks it's BAD.

Here is the link to the Flickr slide show of downtown Nashville.

http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=riverfront+nashville&s=rec

This one is actually the road leading to my school.

Sammie picture!

We've had a busy few days. First there was Bon Jovi. Then the Kids' Marathon. Plus we took pictures of Sammie. Well I guess I should say that my friend, Lisa, took pictures of Sammie. She got some really good ones. Here are 3 I can show you now. I'll post more when she finishes touching them up.

My marathon boy!!

For the last few weeks Joshua has been running after school with the Stoner Creek running club. They would run 1 mile everyday. Finally on Friday they ran their last mile at the Country Music Kids' Marathon. I was so proud of him.

Here is a picture of him after the race with his medal.

Bon Jovi in Nashville!!

Wow, what a night!!!! We had the most amazing seats. We were inside the circle on row 6 which is the last row. Our seats were on the aisle. Jon and the band walk down the aisle to get to the outside of the circle. During Loves the Only Rule he walks down singing with fans. Unfortunately he didn't stop on our side to sing, but we were able to touch him!! Did you hear what I just said??? I TOUCHED HIM!!!!!! OMG!!! I've never been that close before. It was absolutely amazing!!!!!! My friend, Lisa, took some great pictures that I am sharing. Plus there is a picture I found online where you can see me as Jon is singing on the outside of the circle.

Here are the Jovi Southern Belles. We all met up before the show for dinner at Past Perfect.



This was taken by some unknown (to me) person from outside the circle. Can you find me?? Look right up against the stage on the left. My arm is in the air.


Ohhh!! KISSY LIPS!!!


More kissy lips. Heehee!


*sigh*

He just makes me smile.

Here is a video of Loves the Only Rule. You can see the back of my head and me touching his arm at around the 8 min mark. ;)

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Plus, if you join through this link I could win cool stuff. Including being tour manager for a day!! Umm..................if you know me at all you know how much I would LOVE that!! LOL

Backstage with JBJ

1st ever trip to the ER

So yesterday we spent 4 hours at the zoo. We walked around. We ate lunch. The kids played on the playground. All with no injuries. Then we get home. Joshua wanted to go running (he has joined the running club at school and is.........or should I say WAS..........all excited about it). So he gets his running clothes on and Michael takes him running. A little while later I get a call. "Joshua ran into a pole at the tennis court. He is bleeding. I don't know how serious it is, but you might want to have the first aid supplies ready." Yeah that's a call every mom wants. GAH!

They get home and this is what he looks like. :(

I cleaned him up to get a better look at the cut only to determine that this one required a trip to the ER. He was not happy about that. Up until that point he had been very brave. Only crying when it first happened. He didn't want to go to the hospital. He didn't want to have to get stitches. He didn't like needles. I tried to calm him down assuring him that he might NOT have to have stitches that they might be able to glue it. He was OK with that. LOL

Luckily when we got to the ER there was no one there. They took us right on back. He looked so pitiful lying on that gurney though.


The nurse came in first and they put some stuff on it to numb it just in case they did have to stitch it. He looked really pitiful then.
He fell asleep soon after. He was cold so they brought him a nice warm blanket and he immediately went to sleep. He slept until the dr came in to take a look. To our great relief they decided that glue would do the trick. With the nurse's help they got him all fixed up. The dr checked his eyes and ears and asked him some questions to make sure he didn't have a more serious problem (concussion). He checked out fine so they brought him a Popsicle and let us go home.


This is him a few hours later. Looks like he's going to have a nice shiner. He is very excited about going back to school on Monday now. He wants to tell his friends all about his injury. He still looked pretty pitiful. He had a bad headache as you can imagine.


He doesn't look as bad this morning as I thought he would and we have been told by several men that "chicks dig scars" so its all good I guess. LOL

Sammie is ONE!!!

Happy Birthday baby girl!! I love you!!!

Not so sure about this thing!

Let's see how it tastes.

Siblings celebrating

Hiyah!!

Mmmmm........................cake is GOOD!

This birthday stuff is FUN!!

Ok Mom, I'm done. Time for a bath.

We went to Disney!!

Over Spring Break my mom and I took the kids to Disney World and Sea World. We had a blast. Here are some pictures from the trip.

A princess and a superhero!


On the carousel.

Ari's princess transformation!


The Princess meets HER princess!!

Sammie's first Christmas

Typical day with the 2 big kids

My poor blog seems to be dying a slow death

I'm sure I'll get back into it one day....................hopefully anyway.

Until then, here are a few pics you might enjoy. :)


Here is all of us. A rare occasion for sure.



My big girl and me.


They can be sweet...............sometimes! LOL


All my kiddos together.

My tough guy!

UGA 20 (3-1) Arizona State 17 (2-1)

Well, we survived another one. Just barely. My boys are killing me this year. One loss and 3 very close games with last second plays to either keep the lead or take the lead. Ack! I've said it before, but dang boys I'm too old for this. I'm going to have a heart attack before the end of the season at this rate.

Talk about a nasty night for football. It was nasty in Athens last night. Rain rain and more rain. That group of kids who paint themselves every week were all washed off almost before the game started. (Oh and on a side note...........someone really needs to tell them that the Speedo thing just ain't attractive. Thanks.) Anyway, I knew that it was going to be an ugly game because of the weather. I can't blame all the bad play on the weather, but I'm going to give the team the benefit of the doubt and say a lot of it was due to all the rain. Yes, I can be delusional if I want. Its my blog! LOL

This week it was the offense who didn't have it together. Too many turnovers and penalties..........oh wait............that's been an ongoing problem. Crap. But even considering that the numbers weren't all that horrible. Well, rushing yards were not good, but Cox passed for 242 yards. Not bad for conditions and supposedly a pretty darn good defense we were up against.

The defense played pretty well this week. They held Arizona State to 116 passing yards. Which is a heck of a lot better than the 400+ yards of last week. We had a harder time stopping the run this week though. Arizona State's leading rusher had over 100 yards. We did block a field goal too! Thankfully!!! Otherwise we'd have gone to overtime and Lord help us then. The stress would have been too much for this fan. LOL

Oh and I have to say thank you to Blair Walsh for your clutch kicking! Whew!!


This week's stats:

1. Cox was 17 of 31 for 242 yards with 1 TD and 2 INTs (ugh!)
2. Total rushing yards 102.
3. AJ Green caught 8 balls for 153 yards (he was also the one who blocked the field goal!).
4. 7 penalties for 55 yards.

Up next week LSWho................I mean LSU. They are ranked #4 (Speaking of ranking.........there are 3 SEC teams in the top 5. And we have to play 2 of them!!! ACK!!) I'm expecting another nailbiter of a game. Oh fun....................NOT!!

Until next time.................GATA DAWGS!!!

I promised you pictures!

Joshua



Sammie



Ari

UGA 52 (2-1) Arkansas 41 (1-1)

Holy roller coaster of emotions Dawg fans! For the 2nd week in a row my Dawgs have just about given me a heart attack! I'm getting too old for this boys!! There was a lot going on last night for sure. Our offense looked fantastic (well except for some turnovers!)! Joe Cox..........wow! He proved he can lead this team. I said I would reserve judgment after that first horrible game because he was sick. Some fans weren't so forgiving. They aren't calling for his head today though. They are thanking their lucky stars he was on the field last night!! I hope he has shut them up for good. Oh and by the way, Joe Cox was named Walter Camp Football Foundation National Offensive Player of the Week. He had 5 touchdowns which ties him with Stafford, Shockley, and Greene for touchdowns in a game.

While our offense kicked it last night our defense was a completely different story. They looked sick and not sick in a good way! Arkansas' Mallett threw for 408 freakin' yards!! What the hell??? Really, how do you leave eligible receivers so wide open all night? Even I know better than that! They were able to stop the run so at least we have that, but we've got some damn good QBs in the SEC and if we continue to leave receivers wide open like that they are going to light us up every freakin' Saturday!! Now I'm not one to jump on the "Let's fire *name your coach*" bandwagon, but enough is enough. Martinez needs to go. Our defense definitely needs an overhaul. They cannot continue to count on the offense to bail them out. They have their own issues (turnovers and penalties) to work on.

Speaking of penalties............ummm, yeah I lost count of how many we had. I'm sure I could find it somewhere, but lets just say we had WAY TOO MANY on both sides of the ball(and it wasn't even Penn Wagers out there!)!!! We gotta take care of that boys. There is NO excuse for that. None. Pay attention to what you are doing!! Ok, looked it up...........we had 14 penalties for 93 yards. Ridiculous!!!!

Ok, now onto special teams. *sigh* As much as I loved them last week they left a lot to be desired this week. This directional kicking thing? It AIN'T working! How many times did our kickoffs go out of bounds last night? Geez! Kick the damn ball deep and trust your kickoff coverage team to do their jobs for crying out loud. That said, Butler had an amazing 64 yard punt at the end that helped keep Arkansas from rallying.

Here are the stats from the game:

1. Cox was 18 of 26 for 375 yards and 5 touchdowns and 1 interception.
2. Samuel carried 16 times for 104 yards.
3. King carried 11 for 59 yards.
4. Green caught 7 balls for 137 yards.
5. Moore caught 6 for 91 yards.
6. 530 total yards

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Next up Arizona State.

Until next week.....................GATA Dawgs!!!

So how much does the Tooth Fairy leave these days?

This is a very important piece of information. Joshua has his very first loose tooth!! He came out of the bathroom last night after brushing his teeth and his eyes were HUGE! He says, "Mom! I have blood on my tooth!!" He was a little bit freaked out I think. LOL I checked his tooth and sure enough it was a little bit wiggly. He is so excited now. I've lost count of how many times he's asked when his tooth is going to come out. His first question to me this morning was if his tooth was still there. So, I'm new to this whole Tooth Fairy thing so how much does she leave these days?

UGA 41 (1-1) USC 37 (1-1)

OH MY GOODNESS!! What a game!! This game was absolutely amazing! Talk about ups and downs in emotion! Geez, I didn't know if I would survive this game. I knew I was going to have a heart attack before the end. And I was completely exhausted by the end. The poor kids and dog. I scared them a couple times with my yelling at the tv. I have got to find my tv brick!! Or my splash ball to throw when needed.

We had a little bit of everything in this on folks. Fumbles. Interceptions. Reverse for a TD. Kickoff return for a touchdown. Fake punt. Safety. Blocked extra point. Penalties. Last second heroics. It was crazy!! And I loved it! I haven't seen such an exciting game in a very long time. Wasn't it Corso who said it was going to be a boring game? Ha! Keep talking Corso, just don't pick my Dawgs to win thankyouverymuch!

My phone was going nuts with all my Twitter friends. Heck my Twitter feed was going nuts too. I have to say that I was using some horrible language A LOT last night. LOL But if you know me at all you know that UGA football brings that out like nothing else. I'm sure I need to apologize to some of my non-UGA followers.

The stats from the game:
1. Cox was 17 for 24 for 200 yards 2 TDs and 1 interception
2. Samuel carried 15 times for 65 yards
3. Smith carried twice for 65 yards
4. Thomas carried 6 times for 22 yards.
5. Green caught 6 balls for 86 yards.
6. We threw to 6 different receivers.
7. 352 total yards (not counting sacks)
8. 257 kickoff return yards (Boykin had 4 for 189 with a 100 yarder for a TD, Smith had 2 for 60 yards)


At the end of the game I was on the floor on my knees praying! With 22 seconds left USC was on the 7 yard line. They had to have a touchdown to win. A field goal would do nothing for them. It was 4th down. Garcia stepped back to throw the ball. All I have to say is THANK GOD FOR RENNIE CURRAN!!!! He batted the ball down and the ball was ours. Now did I see all that live? Heck no! I was on the floor praying as I mentioned. I had to watch the replay. LOL All that was left was for my boys to kneel down in the victory formation. My favorite play in all of football. Well, when WE do it. ;)

Oh and I have to mention the kicking game! Our kickoffs were going into the end zone! OMG! Can you believe it? We actually had a touch back! Unheard of!! LOL Not only that, but Blair Walsh had a 50 yard field goal! I was loving me some Blair Walsh last night! (that was for you Rex! ;) )

It was an incredibly fun game. Now if we had lost it I'm not sure I would be saying that. LOL But to make it all the more fun was the fact that it caused Spurrier all kinds of frustration. Look, here he is at the end. Note the GSP fist bump right behind him. That makes me giggle! Heehee



Next up Arkansas.

Until next week...........GATA Dawgs!