Auburn A-Day

Auburn's A-Day, or Spring Practice, was a few Saturdays ago on April 14th.  We went down to Auburn the night before and had supper with Uncle Jim.  Deena and the girls were out of town, so we hated to miss them, but we had a good time with Jim at Buffalo Connection!

The next day we wanted to be on campus by 10 since they were doing the reveal of the Heisman statues for Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson, and Cam Newton! There was a huge crowd there, of course, so we didn't get to see much of the talking and presenting beforehand, and didn't get great pictures, but we did get up close to see Cam reveal his own statue, and that was very cool!  Jack couldn't believe how close Cam was to us!  He loved it!

Mommy and Jack just hanging out before the reveal of the statues.  Poor guy still had his bad scrapes on his head, nose, and mouth.  Barely looks like himself! :-(

After the reveal, we went over to the fields by the ROTC building where they had some activities for kids.  They had a "jumpy jump" as Jack calls it, face painting, baseball throwing, and football throwing.  We even got to see the marching band up close when they came through and played a few songs!  Jack loves the marching band so he got very excited!

Cute face painting of a football helmet!

Shaking his shaker listening to the band

Video clips of him playing

Finally time to go in the stadium for the practice!  It was pretty hot, so we made our way to a shady spot right on the 15 yard line.  They were pretty good seats!  Uncle Jim came in with us too, so we were glad to spend more time with him.

Practice was interesting for a little bit, but after a quarter, Jack was getting a little bored, so we ended up leaving at halftime.  We were at least glad we got to take him into the stadium since he's always asking to go and doesn't understand when we say it's "closed", especially when they keep the lights on!  He's such a huge fan! :-)

When we left we headed straight for the beach to go see Granna and Poppy (that blog coming soon.)  He hadn't napped yet, so he fell right asleep in the car.  Sweet boy had another great A-Day experience (his third so far), but was definitely worn out!  At least Auburn won that day! :-)