It's Football Time....

We are very excited to post that this week begins one of favorite events of the year - college football season!!   Our family has taken quite a journey in our loyalties with college football teams.  Chris & I went to TCU for college & Chris' master's degree.  We were loyal fans, I even cheered my sophmore year for the Frogs.  At the time, we were not a winning team.  They did well, but nothing of the caliber they are today.  Winners of the 2010 season - Rose Bowl.   We remember our roots & say with pride - Go Frogs!

We graduated from TCU, and moved on to Dallas where Chris worked for a few years at ATT & I taught school in Plano.  As we began to dream of who we desired our Blocker family to be - we began dreaming alongside God & asking what he desired and where he wanted us to be.  In 2003, we packed up all of our belongings & moved from Dallas to Knoxville, TN, for Chris to begin a four year business doctoral program at the University of Tennessee.  We fell in love with Knoxville, and as I've written previously, the beautiful seasons.  It was a joy to experience Chris living out a dream of one day becoming a professor.  For family time, we would hang out with friends, take walks or have picnics in the beautiful trees or Smoky mountains.  In the fall, we were most definitely faithful watchers of the Volunteers.  It is hard to escape the contagious spirit of 100,000+ screaming fans shouting Rocky Top at the top of their lungs.  My degree may be signed with the TCU emblem, but the Blocker family most definitely bleeds orange.  Passion is contagious (in all aspects of life).  But in this case, our 3 year old daughter that never lived a day in her life in TN - sang every word of Rocky Top in the backseat of the car.  So in honor of the 2011 season -- "It's football time in Tennessee"  "In to the checkerboard!"

Even though our time in Tennessee was limited to four years, we continue the tradition of flying the flag proudly for football games & running laps around the living room each time the football enters the checkerboard.  We moved our family from Knoxville to Waco & are now Baylor Bears where my husband in a professor.  So in honor of showing local spirit & creating new traditions.  Here's to the Green & Gold - Rise Up & Sic' em Bears!

So if you are needing a little taste of fall, turn on the tv next weekend to your favorite college football team.   Crank down the A/C, make a crock pot of queso, & enjoy what has been a celebrated tradition across the nation for hundreds of years!!