Thirteen

Roll Tide!  Alabama won their national championship game Thursday night!  That makes 13 National Championships!  It is an awesome feeling and you can imagine how excited our family is.  We've been waiting awhile for this win.  Our family was at our last win in 1992 in New Orleans and we had a great time, although I have to admit I don't really remember it!

I'll go ahead and give a shout out to my very own Dad who actually has a National Championship ring from his playing days at The University under Bear Bryant.  I guess I never really understood how big of a deal it was growing up because Dad always wears it.  It's a neat ring and I'm glad he has it.  He's always had neat stories for us while we were growing up about The Bear and how he and Mom met on campus.  Fun times!

Back to the game....

At first, Matthew was kind of upset at how we were playing...

 

But then both boys (and Jordan) got happier toward the end of the game!  We let John Michael stay up a little late so that he could watch some of his first National Championship game and he enjoyed it.  He did his touchdown arms and yelled "go go go go go!" quite a lot!  If you're not from the south you probably have NO idea why this is even a big deal at all, but if you are then you get it.

The next day both boys wore their football outfits.  JM's is red with a football on it.  Here he is modeling it at breakfast.  He kept looking at the football during the day and saying "dutball!"

Matthew also had on his football gear the next day.

 And speaking of football players, by the looks of Matthew's size it looks like we may have a future football player on our hands.  What a big guy!  We don't care what he does one day, as long as he's happy!  We're already in size 2 diapers and wearing 3-6 month outfits! 

Tonight at dinner while JM was stuffing tons of pizza in his mouth we talked about how in a few years these two boys are going to eat us out of house and home.  Good thing we're doing Dave Ramsey now so we'll have a ginormous food budget one day!

 And just for fun, (I totally copied this off of someone on facebook) I thought it was a neat video of some of the highlights from the game.  Enjoy!