Hokie Football & lots of Turkey Days

November

November went quickly with lots of small road trips and not a lot of pictures.

It started with a quick trip to Duke in a nail biter kind of game where I had to pace the top of the stadium for the final 5 minutes before the game went final, 24-21.

Duke's campus made me feel like I was somewhere in Europe. It was so pretty!

The next weekend Meredith & Antonio made the trip to Blacksburg. It was great to see them and catch up but we were bummed to watch Tech fumble again Georgia Tech.

Even Willie Mac stopped by the tailgate.

The big football trip for Derley & I was heading to Notre Dame for the weekend of November 19th. We ducked out of work a little early and headed towards South Bend. Along the way, we learned about United Dairy Farmers. Oddly enough, it was warm enough that we were excited to stop in for some ice cream.

Our final stop of the night was at Oakwood Resorts. Derley found this absolutely adorable place that we loved! We ate dinner in the restaurant and met up with my family to plan out game day.

The day we drove down it was warm enough to eat ice cream, Saturday morning we woke up to cold & snow. We caravaned the final way to South Bend with my mom, Tom & Caity. Once we found parking, we layered up and headed to explore campus.

We had a great time seeing all of the unique, must see places around campus.

The Grotto

Basilica of the Sacred Heart

Inside the Golden Dome

God Quad in the snow

Outside the Golden Dome with Notre Dame tour guy

Touchdown Jesus!

Trumpets Under the Dome

We even accidentally ended up at the Notre Dame walk to the stadium. We got some weird looks from the players and coaches as they were trying to high five the Notre Dame fans and saw us.

As the game started, the sun was setting and it wasn't long before we were all freezing!

It was a super exciting game, a great experience in South Bend and a big win for the Hokies, 34-31.

The month ended with the traditional Video Thanksgiving, Traditional Thanksgiving and our biggest game of every season.

Video Thanksgiving has grown so large that we can no longer host at our house. Thankfully we were able to find a location and a menu that would work together. This year was Breakfast for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Traditional Thankgiving this year we had my mom, Tom, Ryan & Caity come into town. With the UVA game in Blacksburg on Saturday, they decided to make the trip a little early and it was great to have them.

An evening outing to White Barrel Winery

The UVA game was just as exciting as it is every year. It was a great Senior Day, we had my cousin and his family come for the game & the 13th straight victory over UVA 52-10.

With the win over UVA, we punched our ticket to the ACC Championship in Orlando the following weekend so there was lots to celebrate.

Birthday Celebration & Football

October 22 - 25th

This weekend we invited as many friends and family to celebrate Jed's birthday. Since Jed's actual birthday was on a Thursday the celebrating started pretty early in the week. For a while, Jed had talked about wanting a birthday party in the glass room in the movie theatre. For a while it was so funny to laugh about it but after a while, I realized that it would be awesome to surprise him with a little kid birthday party in the movie theatre glass room. But that part of the birthday will come later.

Jed started his morning with a huge surprise when we walked into his office. A bunch of people from work thought it would be hilarious to aluminum foil his office!

Jed's next surprise, we had a group of friends over to the house for pizza from Giordano's before we headed to the movie threatre. He was so surprised and it was so much fun!

After celebrating in the glass party room, we hopped into the movie theatre and watched The Martian.

It was a great way to celebrate Jed's birthday and we were excited to continue the celebrating as friends and family started to arrive in town on Friday evening.

Everyone got here by the time we were out tailgating on Saturday afternoon. The tailgate was a great time for everyone to hang out and catch up. It was so great to see everyone and just hang out.

The game was great and very stressful. We still can't believe we lost the game 43-45 in 4 overtimes! What a crazy game.

On Sunday, we had one last party for everyone to celebrate Jed's birthday since he spent most of his day yesterday working and didn't get a chance to hangout with friends and family.

 It was such a great day. We couldn't have asked for a warmer, prettier day. We all had a great time running around the park and stuffing our faces with pizza, cake and candy from the pinata!

After celebrating Jed's birthday for the last 4 days, it was time to change focus as everyone headed home and we headed to a wedding renewal service. It was such an honor to be a part of this service and it was a great way to end the weekend.

Congratulations Robyn & DR!