At the Helms': Spring Game 2012

The UNC Spring football game was on April 14th this year. It was the same day as the Chapel Hill Garden Tour. My mom, Deda, and I met up with my friend Amy for the tour in the morning. I lugged my camera around all morning and didn't take a single picture. I hate when I do that! We saw some beautiful, inspiring gardens that were WAY out of my league. This one was a favorite, but they were all amazing!

The last house we visited was on Gimghoul so we ladies only had to pop across the street to campus to meet up with the fellas (Charlie, Grandaddy, Arlo, Casey, and Gus) for some pre-game festivities. It was such a gorgeous (GORGEOUS!) Spring day so we found a nice spot with some shade and some sun and some grass and just hung out for a while.

We played a little football...

Collected a few sticks and rocks...

...which we then gave to Grandma.

We sat in the lush green grass...

Watched a little basketball...

...and dreamed of playing with the big boys some day.

We had a picnic with Grandaddy and Grandeda.

Ate birthday cake in honor of Liz.

Ate more cake.

And a little more.

After a lovely lunch al fresco, we headed into the stadium. (Could the sky be any Carolina-bluer?)

Arlo was into watching the game for a good 3 minutes.

Then, he discovered the seats. Oh, the seats. Look at that face. Pure glee.

We also did lots of clapping.

And some dancing.

And some more playing with the seats. He could not get enough!

On the way out, we collected some more rocks for good measure.

Don't you love how, when you're one-and-a-half, whatever you're doing right now is the coolest thing ever? Rocks, basketball, cake, football, folding seats, more rocks ... it doesn't really matter what. It's all the BEST.

Here are a few more gems donated by Casey - a far more gifted photographer than I. Obviously.