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Georgia Picture Day

Saturday was picture day at UGA.  Since the Bulldogs are #1, all the freaks (or maybe it's the rednecks) came out.

Oscar & Big Daddy walking to Sanford Stadium. Oscar wanted #24 for Knowshon Moreno.


Michael & Matt Cerione. Matt is the centerfielder for Georgia. Michael watched all of their post-season games and knows most of their names (though he did call this Matt by the name of the rightfielder, Matt Olson). Michael would have stayed there and asked them questions all day. He had the biggest grin on his face.


Sanford Stadium (minus 95,000 fans)


Oscar & Knowshon. This is as closed as we could have gotten to the running backs. The line for the running backs was several hours long.


All we wanted was for Michael to meet Matthew Stafford, but it didn't quite work out that way. We arrived at 1pm, 2 hours before the players arrived. The players signed autographs for 2 hours. So, we waited a bit over 4 hrs so that Michael could meet Matthew Stafford. We were 5 people from the end of the line when they told the players to leave. It's been a long time since Michael cried this hard. He didn't care about getting Stafford's autograph; he just wanted to meet him.

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Michael got over it pretty quickly though when Beth told him he could take a bath with Henry.

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