Keeping up with the Manns: 2 Week Recap...

So I know I didn't technically blog all week last week due to the giveaway, and last week I didn't even mention a thing about Thanksgiving or the incredible football game, but I'm making up for it now!

Thanksgiving was fun spent in Houston with my family. We were all able to be there this year, which is pretty rare considering where everyone lives! Unfortunately I didn't take hardly any pictures while we were there, and I don't know why... so here is my sister's post about the Turkey Frying that Brandon did, and it includes a lot of pictures!

The Friday after Thanksgiving we left Houston pretty early to make it up to North Richland Hills for the Abilene High football game, and boy was it worth it! The traffic was terrible around the stadium and we ended up just parking in the Taco Bueno parking lot which turned out to be a better solution because the spot we were in was actually closer than any of the ones in the actual stadium parking lot, AND we didn't have to pay the $5 parking cost, which was especially nice because we didn't know they were charging for parking and neither of us had cash.

I've tried to narrow the pictures down for both of these games so I don't overwhelm you. Cedar Hill was the number 1 ranked team in the state and number 2 in the nation up until November 27th, when the Abilene High Eagles dominated them. Take a look at the fans in this picture, both sides were completely full and I know the Abilene side was standing room only!

Just to give you an idea about these men (not boys) that were playing for Cedar Hill... they had two players that were 6'-5" and weigh 340 lbs and too many others to name that broke the 250 mark. Also, Deion Sanders, Jr. plays for Cedar Hill, as in... Deion Sanders who played in both the NFL and the MLB... yes, they were huge and good.

Now look at their fans... the stands are over half-way empty. There was still a good 7-8 minutes left in the game, but they were sore losers and didn't want to stick around until the end... so we scored another touchdown and it cleared out even more.

Victory stance taking a knee.

All of the boys were so excited, and you should have heard how loud all of the cheering was the entire game.

Lindsay came!

Family photo after wards for the Christmas card.

Lindsay and Lirkyy

You'll start to notice this is a re-occurring theme

These two guys are going to be famous, Herschel Sims and Ronnell Sims (they're cousins and they're both awesome!)

He's a local celebrity and doesn't even know it.

Now for week two! This past Friday, Abilene High played Arlington Bowie at Bowie's home stadium, UT Arlington. I didn't really know what to expect out of this team, I mean the last game everyone was nervous because the team we were playing was ranked as the best in the state, but this team's claim to fame was their nearly 4,000 yards passing from their quarterback.

Everyone in town was talking about the fact that there was not enough seating on the visitor side of the stadium, so they told AISD that if needed, they would open up a section on the home side for Abilene High fans. Who wants to do that? NO ONE! So everyone left early, and that's not to be taken lightly.

We pulled out of the driveway at about 12:50 and we were at the stadium before 3:30... the game didn't start until 7:30, and it was 30 degrees. We beat the team bus, but we weren't the first people there.

At about 4:15, when the parking lot was halfway full of Abilene High fans, Connie decided it was time to go stand in line. The rest of us joined her in the front part of the line about 45 minutes later for no other reason than we were tire of being in the car, and we wanted to go talk to friends.

I took this picture about 5:20 or so, and they weren't even letting us in the stadium until 6:00. By the time 6:00 rolled around, the line was well beyond the limits of this picture.

Here's Connie all bundled up and waiting in line...

Carly's ready to get her cheer on..

Just a few of my babies all bundled up!

Carly's sister Christen!

I should probably add in there that Arlington Bowie had no people in line until right at 6 when they were letting us all in, but thankfully for them, they had their own line.