On the Road to OMAHA!

GAMECOCKS GOING TO OMAHA!

It's Returning to Omaha

It's battling for championships

It's a tradition of winning!

IT'S THE GARNET WAY!

FOOTBALL FEVER

For some odd reason I am having a case of football fever this week! I always complain about how I feel like my Gamecock sports life never comes to an end because each sport overlaps. That is with the exception of baseball. After baseball is finished ("finished" meaning the end of CWS in hopes we make it to the end, IF we even make it to the CWS), we have 9 weeks until our first football game against Southern Mississippi! That gives us a decent break to really enjoy summer. However, I am getting excited about football season coming up! We have such a wonderful Gamecock family that we travel to the away games with and great friends that we tailgate with at home! Here are some great pictures over the years...

Clemson 2008 (mine and Brandon's first "date")

@ Georgia

USC vs. Ole Miss (we beat the #4 ranked team!)

@ Alabama (the trip Brandon's mom and my mom made with us)

@ Tennessee

USC vs. Florida at Susie's tailgate

SC Baseball Regional Weekend

What a great weekend for Carolina baseball! Now, all we need is College of Charleston to beat Coastal Carolina today and we will most likely be hosting the super regional at Carolina Stadium! Right now it is tied in extra innings!!! Here are a few pictures from the weekend...

Rhett, me, Kevin, and AmandaMom with Jana and Mr. Payne

Ashley and me Siblings - Rhett, me, Em, and CrosbyBig Kev, Jonie, Amanda, and Kevin

Our baseball family! The Clarks, Paynes, and Queens

My Version of "Proscuitto and Caremalized Onion Pizza"

My roommate and I love to find recipes and take a stab at them for dinner every week. We were joking last night about how we needed to start filming ourselves in the kitchen. We don't exactly have all of the everyday cooking utensils (although we have a good bit), but we seem to make do just fine!

As I have said before, I am obsessed with the Pioneer Woman. I found a recipe that I was dying to try, so I did just that. It was a proscuitto and caremalized onion pizza and boy was it devine! I can only imagine what the PW's tasted like! I didn't fool with the mess of making my own dough or anything like that. I actually tried to get the refrigerated dough from Publix, but they were out. I decided just to use one of those ready made thing pizza crusts. The other ingredients consisted of EVOO, salt, garlic, brown sugar, red onion, proscuitto, and mozzerella.

This is my pizza...

This is PW's pizza....

As you can tell, they are just slightly different, but it still tasted FABULOUS!!!

Hilton Head for the Long Weekend

We were so fortunate this past weekend to be able to go down to Hilton Head, for virtually free! Brandon's friend Buffet, who really looks like Jimmy Buffet, didn't have anyone renting his house, so he allowed us to stay and just pay the cleaning fee! We had such a great group of friends down there! Here are some pictures of the beautiful home we stayed in!

The front of the house.

The kitchen that came in handy for some fabulous meals!

The pool!

The covered porch by the pool.

Some more from the great weekend - Saturday we went to the beach all morning. After the beach, we went on the boat, over the way to Daufuskie Island to go to Marsh Side Mama's. Good times! That night we made a great seafood pasta dinner and hung out by the pool the rest of the night. Sunday we got up, ate breakfast, headed down to the pool then out to eat lunch. After lunch a few of us came back to the house to enjoy the rest of the afternoon in the pool. That evening we made some basil and garlic hamburgers! They were "De-lish!" We spent the rest of the evening playing cards and watching The Office recaps. Sunday we ate some breakfast, packed, and headed back for the dreadful rain in Columbia!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Memorial Day Weekend! Thank you to all of the American Soldiers who give their lives for our country - that is what Memorial Day is all about!

The Gamecocks Sweep the Razorbacks!

What a weekend for the Gamecocks! Now it is on to play for the SEC title this weekend against Florida!!! I can't wait!

R.I.P Kelli Bullard

Saturday, May 1, 2010 a very dear friend passed away. She was involved in one of the boating accidents that occurred Saturday night near Suzie Ebert Island. Ironically, Suzie Ebert was also killed hear in a boating accident many years ago. I woke up to the news Sunday morning and have felt numb ever since. I thought to myself all day long about how much I take my life for granted. I tried to remember all of the wonderful times I was fortunate enough to share with Kelli. The lake is a dangerous place, especially so late in the night. That is something I rarely think about when I am on the lake. This could easily happend to anyone at anytime on the lake. Although, it is very difficult to understand why these things happen, it is comforting to know that Kelli is in such a better place.