A Farewell to Football

I wrote this about a month ago after our last football game.  It should probably be written in past tense now, but I was waiting until after bowl season was over to post it. 

Dear 2011 Football Season - 

You have been real good to me and, decently, good to my team.  We have shared a lot of great Saturdays together (and one not so great Thursday night that unfortunately was aired on national television) and I am extremely sad to see you go.  You make me feel like a kid on Christmas morning every Friday night before Gameday and you have single-handedly stocked my closet full of beautiful red dresses for tailgating.  You have allowed me to see people I don't get a chance to see all year that only venture into my town solely because of you.  You've allowed me to meet new people and socialize with family and friends while we gather (and eat way too much) in your honor. You have caused me to have major anxiety on several occasions and have also taught me that you shouldn't ever give up, even when you are down 27 points late in the THIRD quarter.  I start counting down for your arrival pretty early. Like March/April early.   So until next year and until we meet again, thanks for the memories and I will miss you dearly. (But now maybe since you're gone, my house might actually get cleaned on the weekends...)

Love ALWAYS, 

Jantana

Link-Up with The Belles of Saturday - Week 6

Once again, I am linking up with The Belles of Saturday to share my Gameday pictures from this past weekend.  These will be my last football pictures for a while because, sadly, we don't have another home game until November.   We played Central Michigan and won.  I just hope it wasn't our last win of the season...  It looks like we just might be focusing on our tailgating for the rest of the year. 

 

Baby Will decked out in his State gear! (He, and Ellie below, are the kids of my boss from when I worked at the football office. How cute are they!?)

Ellie!

Go Pack!!

Baby Will's first football game!!!

with Mr. Wuf!

Below are two pictures of things I didn't get pictures of that are noteworthy from our game.

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 Scott McCreery sang out national anthem!

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 In honor of our late women's basketball coach, Kay Yow, and breast cancer awareness, our coaching staff wore pink shirts and they had special jersey's made with pink letters.  I thought this was AWESOME! 

Link-Up with The Belles of Saturday - Week 5

Today I'm linking up with the Belles of Saturday to share my Gameday pictures from our game this weekend.  We played Georgia Tech at home.  We did not win... but at NC State, tailgating is our specialty, so in that respect, Saturday was a good day!

My red flats I got from Target. (They're not that comfortable yet, but hopefully they'll get there soon...)

 

Trying to perfect my spiral...

I am not there yet... 

Me and my favorite little Wolfpacker, Ellie!

Go Pack!

I heart that NC State has police on horses!

 Thanks to my cousin Laine again for her photog skills, I need a fancy camera like yours!

Gameday Picture Link-Up - Week 3

Linking up over at the Belles of Saturday to share a few Gameday pictures from this past weekend.  Good news is we won. Bad news is that even though it was in the 80's on Thursday, by Saturday at 1pm when I got out there to tailgate, it was COLD.  Like see your breath cold.  I had a new, beautiful one-shoulder red dress from Vestique to wear, butttt that wasn't happening.  Instead I wore two coats, a long sleeve shirt, 4 pairs of socks, and my Hunter boots. and I wish I had of had gloves.  I know I am cold natured, but even the guys were talking about how cold it was.  Not real sure what I'm going to do for our games in November...  

I heart Laine's jeans. They are from Old Navy

Stylin' in our winter clothes in September

Promised Payton he would make the blog this week!

I have nooo idea how they were wearing shorts...

Funniest thing I've seen all year. Don't even know what it is, but it's motorized.

Thanks again to my cousin Laine for her photog skills and for taking these pics!

Link-up with The Belles of Saturday - Week 1

Today I'm linking up over at The Belles of Saturday to share my tailgating pictures from the NC State game this past weekend.  I am SO GLAD that football season and tailgating are back!  Being inside of a college football stadium is one of the greatest feelings ever.  Below are some pictures from yesterday.  Thanks to my cousin Laine for taking most of these (she has a fancy camera!)

Our tailgating setup

My black and red Jack Rogers!

Tailgating Flag

 

Boys playing cornhole

Girls playing cornhole

Couple tailgating across from us.  How cute are they?!

Me and Laine tailgating

Me, Laine, and Todd

Mr. Wuf!

Our friend's little girl, Ila Kate, at her first football game!!

All decked out in our Vestique outfits!

me and my Dad in the game!

If you have tailgating or Gameday pictures from this past weekend, hop on over to The Belles of Saturday and link up too!

WILW

I'm loving lots of things this week!

• I'm loving Ashton of Soulshine and I launched our new blog The Belles of Saturday this week!! A blog that's dedicated to our love of football #hurryupfootballseason 

• I'm loving that last night I had dinner with Sarah Elizabeth from We're Just Like You Only Prettier.  We had been trying to get together for a while and then I ended up winning her fabulous giveaway, so we did dinner last night and I got to pick up my painted cooler from her!! 

How awesome is that?!  And there was some EOS lipgloss in there and it's everything that people say and more. I busted open the package the minute I got in the car and tried it and I love it!

• I'm loving that this weekend I'm going to Charleston to see: Ashley of Run With Me, Megan of Fried Green Pickles, and Ashton!! Watch out Chuck Town, there's going to be some fun times had... 

 

• I'm loving that the Panthers looked about 198 times better in their first preseason game than we looked last year. Pretttty sure we got more touchdowns in this game than we got ALL last year... and I am officially a Cam Newton fan now.  He is STUD. (and when I say that, I mean he's a great athlete and a star QB. I'm falling in love with his sports skills, not him...)

 Him wearing those glasses cracks me up...Urkel anyone??

Be sure to stop by Jamie's blog and link-up too!

Friday's Fancies - Fancying Football

 

Today for Friday's Fancies with {av}, of {long distance loving}, I am jumping a few weeks ahead to my favorite season of the year... football season! Our inspiration this week for Friday's Fancies was the color red and with football season being three weeks away, I put together a look that I would love to wear for our first football game.  I WANT that dress!!

You may have noticed that I've been a little MIA on here. That has been for good reason.  I've been working on something new with my pal Ashton and will reveal it to you on Monday.  It may or may not have to do with one of my true loves in life. and I'm not talking about seashells, one-shoulder dresses, or french fries. So what does that leave.... perhaps the theme of my Friday's Fancies today?... You'll see on Monday. I can't wait to share it with you!

Fancying Football by jlmoss721 featuring tahitian pearl jewelry