Our First Road Trip

For those of you who don't know, about a week after Landon was born, Mike was offered a job as Director of Football Operations at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He will be working for his former college coach, Bill Curry. This job is truly a gift from God and it came completely out of the blue. When I was in labor at the hospital, we turned on the Atlanta news in time to hear the announcement of Coach Curry's hire.

Yesterday Landon took is very first road trip out of state to to North Carolina to Bill and Carolyn Curry's vacation home in the mountains for our very first Georgia State staff retreat. For those of you who don't know what Coach Curry looks like, that's him in the pictures above with Landon. We all got Georgia State T-shirts to wear when we arrived....even our littlest staff member got one!! The boy looks good in blue! The drive only took about 2 hours, but it was long enough for Mike and I. Overall, Landon did pretty good in the car except for a few moments of seemingly endless crying. The last 20 minutes of the trip were the worst, both getting there and coming home. He did pretty well while we were there and slept only briefly all day. He was so tired that he actually slept all night last night!!!!! It was great to meet our new staff and their families. The Curry's home is amazing! It's a log house on the top of a mountain with a panoramic view from the family room and back porch of Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina mountains. We could stay there forever! It was so relaxing to sit in the rocking chair on the porch, listen to the fountain, and just stare at the mountains! This picture above is actually the back of the house. It was so much cooler outside being that high up in the mountains that we were able to have a very enjoyable outdoor picnic. Landon just sat in his little car seat, kicked his little feet and blew bubbles. He was a hit!!