This weekend, we headed back to Athens for another Georgia game! We had such a fun time!
This time, we took my family- Gigi, Granddad, Greg, and Jillian. Katie Anne also made her annual trip to Athens to see the Dawgs!
We went over Friday night and spent the night at the condo. We weren't able to get the cable hooked up (don't ask... long story), so we brought the Wii and we had a great time playing that.
We had a big Wii bowling tournament... Katie and Jillian vs. Thomas and Greg. Needless to say, Jillian and I kicked tail!
Katie Anne loved everyone running around, relaxing, and playing. It is a surreal feeling to see your kid running barefoot and playing through the same rooms where you spent your college years.
Saunders and I kept saying to each other, "Did you ever think 6 or 7 or 8 years ago we'd have a kid playing in the condo one day?" She loved it because there's not much furniture there anymore, so she had tons of room to run and run.
She and her Daddy played football, which he just LOVED. Katie Anne learned a new word... "Fumble!"
We were amazed at her this weekend... she's grown up so much since last year when we took her to Athens. Last year, she did enjoy the dog walk and Wild Wing, but she cried a lot while doing the walking that's a major part of the Athens experience, and we didn't try spending the night with her. This year, she was just a champ and rolled with it all day. She was in a pleasant mood from the minute we left until the minute we got back, did great in the car rides, and just had an amazing time. Anybody who has spent any amount of time around Katie Anne knows how obsessed she is with UGA, and so she was in heaven to be surrounded by all that red and black. She kept saying, "Georgia!" and "Uga!" and "Football!" (or as she says it, "Uttball!") everywhere we went. She had such a good time and enjoyed everything. She even fared well in the extreme heat while we were out and about downtown. Saunders has definitely got his little Georgia fan here... we joked all weekend that we packed all the UGA fan-ness into one kid, and our son will probably be a Tech fan!
On Saturday morning, we got up and went downtown. We did our traditional Wild Wing visit a
nd ate wings for lunch. Then, we strolled through North Campus,
let Katie Anne play in the "Family Friendly" area, and made some pictures. (My mom's pictures are
better than mine, so I'll post those later... my camera lens fogged up from being in my sweaty pocket!) We went to the Dog Walk, and Katie Anne loved watching the band
play... we were much closer to the band this year, so she really got to hear them this time. She clapped her hands, swayed to the beat, and said, "Yay!"
After that, she was exhausted and fell asleep in the stroller, so Jillian and I pushed her back up to the condo for a nap while Saunders, Greg, Gigi, and Granddad went to the game. They had a great time watching an exciting UGA win, and we finished the night with more Wii, yummy Pokey sticks and pizza rolls from Gumby's (Katie Anne's first taste of an Uncle Carlton tradition), and then a late-night drive back to C'ville.
It was a great weekend!
If you'd like to see more of the pictures (plus check out the black and white versions), click on this link to the Facebook photo album. You can view the album even if you're not a Facebook member.
This time, we took my family- Gigi, Granddad, Greg, and Jillian. Katie Anne also made her annual trip to Athens to see the Dawgs!
We went over Friday night and spent the night at the condo. We weren't able to get the cable hooked up (don't ask... long story), so we brought the Wii and we had a great time playing that. 
We had a big Wii bowling tournament... Katie and Jillian vs. Thomas and Greg. Needless to say, Jillian and I kicked tail!
Saunders and I kept saying to each other, "Did you ever think 6 or 7 or 8 years ago we'd have a kid playing in the condo one day?" She loved it because there's not much furniture there anymore, so she had tons of room to run and run. 
She and her Daddy played football, which he just LOVED. Katie Anne learned a new word... "Fumble!"
We were amazed at her this weekend... she's grown up so much since last year when we took her to Athens. Last year, she did enjoy the dog walk and Wild Wing, but she cried a lot while doing the walking that's a major part of the Athens experience, and we didn't try spending the night with her. This year, she was just a champ and rolled with it all day. She was in a pleasant mood from the minute we left until the minute we got back, did great in the car rides, and just had an amazing time. Anybody who has spent any amount of time around Katie Anne knows how obsessed she is with UGA, and so she was in heaven to be surrounded by all that red and black. She kept saying, "Georgia!" and "Uga!" and "Football!" (or as she says it, "Uttball!") everywhere we went. She had such a good time and enjoyed everything. She even fared well in the extreme heat while we were out and about downtown. Saunders has definitely got his little Georgia fan here... we joked all weekend that we packed all the UGA fan-ness into one kid, and our son will probably be a Tech fan!
On Saturday morning, we got up and went downtown. We did our traditional Wild Wing visit a
nd ate wings for lunch. Then, we strolled through North Campus, 
let Katie Anne play in the "Family Friendly" area, and made some pictures. (My mom's pictures are
better than mine, so I'll post those later... my camera lens fogged up from being in my sweaty pocket!) We went to the Dog Walk, and Katie Anne loved watching the band
play... we were much closer to the band this year, so she really got to hear them this time. She clapped her hands, swayed to the beat, and said, "Yay!"
It is the ultimate nature vs. nuture question... did I create this little OCD monster, or was she born this way? Either way, Katie Anne is obsessed with cleanliness, order, and organization. She loves to clean and straighten up. She wipes under her high chair with a damp paper towel after dinner, cleans up her bath toys before she'll get out, and loves to help me "organize" my shoes in my closet and the cans in the kitchen cabinet. (Her "organizing" is getting everything out, examining it carefully, and putting things back in an order only she understands.) One of her favorite phrases right now is, "Put back!" If anything is out of place or not straight, she tells us, "Uh-oh... put back." A few recent examples...
*This morning, as soon as she woke up, she saw that her Diaper Champ was slightly askew from where Saunders changed the liner last night. She immediately told me, "Down, Momma, down... [I put her down and she walked over to it]... put back, put back." She tried to straighten it up, and she wasn't satisfied until I'd gotten it perfectly parallel to her dresser.
*In the kitchen, we'd left the dog treat container pulled forward to the edge instead of pushed back against the back of the red hutch. She pointed to it and said as soon as we walked into the room, "Uh-oh... put back." When Saunders pushed it back, she said, "Yay!"
*Yesterday, when she went to my parents' house, she saw they'd piled up some things where they'd cleaned out a cabinet in the living room. She told them, "Nasty, Gigi, Nasty!" She said the same thing about our dining room table this weekend when Saunders piled up all the old VHS tapes we were throwing away!
We did some work in our living room this weekend (another post to come later), and I was going around dusting furniture and Swiffer-ing the floor as we moved furniture. These pictures all come from that day, when Katie Anne did her own cleaning... she got baby wipes and wiped down everything she could reach! She literally cleaned for 20 minutes without stopping. Here's a little video of her cleaning, too.
