Day in College Station

Matt's best friend for the past 15 years has been Jeff, or now, "Uncle Jeff."  They played football together in high school, roomed together in college, Jeff lived with us for awhile, and now both coach football.  While Matt has been at Katy his entire career Jeff has bounced around and is now coaching at our alma mater, Texas A&M.  This is his first year moving from high school football to college football and he is absolutely loving it.

In college, coaches move around more than they do in high school (and across the country, not just across the state) so we knew we had to attend a game at A&M this season if we wanted to be sure to see Jeff coach.  Add in the impending arrival of the girls, and we will probably never go to another A&M game for at least 5 years, haha.

We haven't been to an A&M game since we graduated in 2006, so we put a few on the calendar this year.  The first game we got tickets to we had to back out of because of my hematoma.  The second game we could go to was against Auburn and our Katy game got rescheduled from Friday night to Saturday, so we had to back out again.  Finally I MADE him leave work last Saturday so we could attend the very last home game of the year, which ended up being against Mississippi State.  It also happened to be the very last game at Kyle Field before they start reconstruction, and likely Johnny Manziel's last college game at home.  I'm so glad we got to go, even though I felt awful the entire day.

We went with Mrs. Joseph and Julie (I miss our road trips we used to take!) and parked in Jeff's staff parking lot.  We ended up parking right next to the head coaches wife, Mrs. Sumlin, and she invited us to the coach's family tailgate going on in the practice facility.  I wish we had something like this to do at Katy because all of the families were there and brought something to eat, and all of the kids were just running around the football field.  We met a bunch of the other coaches families and had a great lunch.

Our seats were on the 6th row so we had a great view of everything.  President Bush was there and Governor Perry did the fly-over before the game.  We sat near a lot of high school recruits so I got to talk to them about high school football playoffs and college; hopefully I convinced a lot of them to attend A&M! The game was great and we ended up winning!!

The best part of the trip was seeing Jeff so happy and seeing Matt and Jeff together.  We sat back at Jeff's house after the game with his roommate and just "talked ball," one of Matt's favorite things to do.

Thanks to Jeff for the tickets and to Nana and PawPaw for watching Carter for us.  We had a great "date" away to our favorite place! Who knows when we will be able to take that trip again!!