The Agony and the Ecstasy

Happy Monday to all of my internet friends! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. We certainly did...until Sunday evening that is...

We'll start out with the fun stuff first. On Friday evening Tay asked - well, it was really more like begging and pleading - to attend Parent's Night Out where she takes gymnastics. So we dropped her off around 6:30pm and headed out for Mexican food. It was super yummy!

We then continued our date night with a trip to good ol' Wal-Mart. It was grocery shopping time after all and can I just say it was much cheaper without small hands asking for every other thing she saw on the shelves?

Saturday morning Dave headed to work while Tay and I slept in. After working out and doing some laundry, we hit the nail salon and then I got a long overdue haircut. Trim, actually. 

Then we donned our green and gold and headed out to Floyd Casey Stadium. I shall now share a few pictures from last week's game that I never got up...it took me a few days - or a week, can't rightly say - to come out of my funk after losing to UConn.

Miss Taylor standing next to #10 in her #10 jersey. This girl loves Robert Griffin III (RG3)!!

This tent in Touchdown Alley gives away yellow bracelets (like the Livestrong ones) that say 'Baylor.'

After getting her BU tattoo.

Last year the Baylor Line had a Waldo and it was so stinkin' funny to try to find him among all of the gold jerseys. This year they've gone with another classic - The Koolaid Man!

The picture above was taken at this week's game. Isn't she cute?

This wasn't the final score but it was close. NWLA actually scored 3 more points before it was all over. And we took a knee many times to keep from running up the score. Classy move by Art Briles, in my opinion.

BUGWB - some of you know that I was a member of the BUGWB color guard for two years. It was an amazing experience and their shows remain one of my favorite parts of the game.

Being silly toward the end of the game. Many fans had already gone home but my girl was intent on staying until the very end.

Taylor took this picture herself. She said "there just wasn't anything else to take a picture of." Yeah, ok, Taylor, there wasn't anything in the entire stadium? Methinks she has a crush on #10.

Apparently she got bored at this point and just started taking self portraits.

She was very proud to find a double peanut M&M in her bag. Oh the simple joys of life...

BUGWB again

The players praying together after the game

Now you may be asking what happened yesterday to turn such a great weekend into a melancholy mourning period. Well, friends, RG3 was injured on the first drive of the game and will be out for the rest of the season with an isolated ACL tear. We also lost one of our cornerbacks and our backup QB has a shoulder contusion. On his throwing shoulder.

So we may be looking at #11, Florence, to lead the Bears to victory this weekend against Kent State. He is cute as a button if I do say so myself. Then again, I've been told it's not a beauty pageant. 

So we're praying for RG3 and Mikhail Baker as they have surgery to fix their injuries. It's a definite blow to the Bears' season but they still have a great deal of talent and we have a great deal of confidence in Art Briles. (On a side note, I hope the color has come back to his face after it went ashen on Saturday evening when Robert went down.)

We did get a bit of good news today - RG3 will be granted a medical red shirt if he does not play in another game this season. You might be thinking, "how could he possibly play?" He actually played the entire first half of the game. After. Tearing. His. ACL. 

Can you say tough?

And I shall now return to my football prayer vigil...

Sic 'em!

P.S. Steph, it was awesome to see you and your adorable family at the game - a fabulous surprise :-)