BU Homecoming

It's fitting that once I finally get all caught up on the blog that I then get bombarded with activities, thus falling behind again. I just haven't made the time for my blog, much less anyone else's blog in the last week. My google reader has been sitting in waiting, and at this point, I am almost too scared to check it. No telling what the count is up to right now.

So we went to Waco the weekend before Halloween for Baylor Homecoming. It turned out to be a weekend that we just spent with the family. I kept missing my friends at different places, but in the end it was refreshing to just hang with my family. Derek and I couldn't remember the last time we were all three in Waco, so it was nice to not have to run around so much. We got to out traditional spot at the parade and my mom had a fun twirly toy for Justin to play with. Turns out the kids next to him wanted to play with one as well. We also had Leal's breakfast tacos and donuts with BU colors.


The sun was so bright, so taking photos was a challenge. I'm trying to embrace the sun versus run away from it. I played around with the sun beams by putting my F-stop really high. Not my fave photos but it was fun nonetheless. The sky was blown in the background, so I bumped up the blue in the photo to bring the colors back.


Justin tried a donut hole...and didn't like it! Just like his momma - makes me so proud!


Mean green fighting machine. Derek's parents gave Justin this airfighter jacket a long time ago, so we brought it along to wear our green now that we are big enough to fit in it. And I didn't even make my hubby wear green (I think it was an accident).


The whole fam at the parade. It was so nice that the morning had cooler weather - fun to bust out the coats.


The lovely Noze brothers. Most people love the floats - the Smiths, on the other hand, love the dry humor of the brotherhood. I don't know if Justin was making the face because of the funny looking man, the fact that I was telling him it was Pinocchio, or the fact that Papa Snuf was telling him that it was Coy Blevins. (And Coy, I have no idea what he meant by that)


Lot so floats of floats, though I only took a photo of this one.


There was this cool demonstration with these monster cars who drove up on the tire of the car in front of them. Pretty cool for all the little boys.


Justin had some sweet time with his aunts Elise & Kaki. They helped fill his bag full of candy throughout the parade. Quick story - Derek told Justin about 3/4 through the parade to offer everyone at our corner a piece of candy. Justin gave him this look as if he was clearly out of his mind. My brother, Shane, overhears Derek talking to Justin about having a happy heart in this, and then yells out, "Just take the spanking, Justin, but don't share your hard earned candy!" Thanks Shane! Way to offer only the best advice an uncle can give. Hey, gotta love the fam.


We somewhat took this photo for our overseas buddy, Brooks. He doesn't love the Chick-fil-A cow, but my boy sure does. So here's to hoping that Brooks will someday love the advertising to our favorite kid diner. The basketball float photo with my fellas didn't turn out so great.


Parade - success! Game - not so much.

Sic 'em!