Bright Lights Red City, part Two!

Today was Homecoming Day- and FULL for the Pate family! Whew! But it was also a wonderful day.

It started with Griffin sleeping until 8 am!! What?!! I am not sure of that has ever happened before, but it was awesome. To celebrate, he and I watched Madagascar 2 when we got up, which was cuter than I expected.







Then we headed to the BCM's Alumni vs Students Flag Football game. Mr. Pate helped start this event last year and didn't even have enough to really play. This year there were tons of players on both teams AND people there to cheer them on! Yay! Griffin was a little shy at first, but he played a little and had a good time.



















Then Griffin and I headed over to tailgating with my work. Griffin was in a great mood and just ran all around happy as could be.

Then Griffin took a nap in the van while daddy and uncle d spent some time at the BCM and headed to the game (and mommy played on her phone in the van!). He actually took a 1 &1/2 hour nap in the van surprisingly! Then we met daddy an uncle d at the football game. It was pretty windy up there, but we still had a good time. Wish WKU would get it together and start winning more often though!







We left after halftime and came home to thaw out and get dressed for our last event of the night- the Monster Dash. Daddy had the idea for the boys to be "ketchup, mustard, and a hot dog". So stinkin cute!! I was a part of Gammy Becky's Bunko Party. We got to walk around and trick or treat, which Griffin ended up really enjoying. Yay!










It was quite the busy day, but really fun too! And I must say that Griffin Pate was the best behaved, most fun to be around kid all day long! AND he used the potty all day and kept his pull up dry, even with all the running about. All day people. So awesome!!

- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone

Bright Lights Red City, part one!

It's Homecoming Week once again on the Hill! After work today, Mr.Pate and Griffin met me on campus to watch the Homecoming Parade. We figured Griffin would absolutely love it, considering his obsession with all things Big Red. And he did!

It was quite chilly, but it was beautiful too. Griffin loved all the different Big Reds he got to see on the floats, as well as other random animals. The chick-fil-a cows walked through, the WKU Barking Band went by (with lots of dogs), and there were some very large tiger stuffed animals.

It was a great little short treat, and Griffin came away with a bunch of candy... Just what we need around here.... :-(

Oh- and apparently we have a new mascot??? A white squirrel named Wally.










- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone

WKU HillllllllllToppers!

Mr.Pate hosted a Continuing Education class for Insurance Agents today for Servpro. They decided to do it at WKU, and picked today because we had a televised home football game tonight. So after the class was over, we got to tailgate and go to the game as a family! (I also got off at 3:30pm because of the game- just one more reason why working at WKU is awesome!)











Griffin was in a people-watching daze most of the time. He was just taking all the commotion in. But he seemed to love it. He cheered for the Toppers and was just the cutest thing there!

Daddy, Griffin and I stalked Big Red around the stadium for a good 20-30 minutes trying to get close for a high five, but of course once we got close Griffin did NOT want to touch him. Oh kids!





Haven, Griffin and I also had a mini photo shoot in the stands, which was very entertaining!





















It was a wonderful night- other than how they actually played football!

- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone