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This past weekend was the opening game for football and if you know anything about me you know that I am not necessarily the world's biggest fan. Now don't get me wrong, I love some Mississippi State football. I can scream and ring that cowbell with the best of them but as far as knowing what's going on, I should be on the sideline coaching I ain't gotta clue! Nonetheless, the game day was splendid. Here is how it went…

First of all, we (me, Ash, and Chrissy) bought a tent. We searched and searched for a good deal on one of those tailgating tents. Well we thought we found the perfect one at Big Lots in Tupelo so I loaded up and went to get it. Well all was great. I was so proud of myself for finding it, getting it, and I just knew we were going to be the envy of the Junction. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I was wrong.

This is our tent, we affectionately call her Little Green.

Contain your oooh's and ahhh's please people. She can't take the attention. When everyone else around us ran out to set up their tent at five 0'clock, they had their frame which oh so easily pulled apart. We had our roof. And were we cool. So, needless to say, we went that night and bought a NICE tent. We hated to bring shame to Little Green but our pride was at stake. So we bought a fancy new tent but didn't get a picture of her. She thinks she is royalty. And to us she is!

Here is me and the best. Can you believe this is our first picture together in months! This is us dry. This is also her first time to tailgate. And we decided that the motto for our first Junction outing in which we had our very own Tent (she requires a capitol letter because she is that good) was Live and Learn. Whew we forgot some things which made out time out there a little less convient but we laughed the whole time. Here is our Live and Learn lesson #1.

If you bring a grill, bring a spatuchula. We had to rig something out of a aluminum pan and a plastic. Poor Chrissy burnt his little fingers. But man was it funny!

Lesson #2, if you are a Mississippi State student, bring your id to the game. This is totally directed at me because mine was in my car. So this led to being separated from the group. Me and Chrissy ended up having to sit with Nate's boys. Which wasn't bad at all but it wasn't my best or my fiancé.


Lesson #3, if there is a rumor that it is going to rain, bring some sort of shelter. This is Derrick. He is one of Nate's groomsmen so we had fun together. I would have cried if I didn't see him in the stands to sit with. We battled the rain together, he put my engagement ring in his pocket so it wouldn't fall off…we are officially going to be lifelong friends.

Then I found Nate and my day was all better.

So that was our day. It was too much fun and too wet but at the end of it we survived. We Lived and Learned and our Tent stood strong and proud through all of it.