Take Me Out to the Ballgame….

The whole fam spent the afternoon at the ballpark yesterday for the Twins game.  Many thanks to our gracious friend for the tix!

The kids had a blast.  And believe it or not, it was the 2nd game for each of them (even baby D!) D’s first game was earlier this year at a work even for Daddy-Man and the girls was at the dome a couple of years ago (here).

I was a bit nervous about the seats at first, they are up against a wall and I was immediately worried about how often we’d have to crawl over people to get out.  Luckily, though, the girls didn’t ask to leave the seats once and being against the wall was PERFECT for baby D and I to stand and sway for a good portion of the game.  I know the family behind me appreciated that I wasn’t standing in front of them!

After the game the kids got to go down on the field to run the bases.  Being out on the warning track and down on field level was thrilling for all of us. (I’m just going to go ahead and speak for baby D and say that he was thrilled too!)

Of course, I had to stop to for a photo op in the outfield.

The girls walking out to 1st base.

K has left Little Mama in the dust!

Little Mama rounding 2nd.

K headed for 3rd and then home.

 

I wish I would have had the shot just a little more to the left, I think K might be touching home plate in this photo.

Waiting to meet Dad behind home plate.

Waiting for Mom to catch up after getting behind in the crowd taking photos.
(It really is a shame nobody ever takes this girl’s picture, isn’t it!)

We had a fabulous time at the game.  It was such a great family afternoon! 

4th of July

We hope that you had a great 4th of July! We sure did. We spent the day relaxing at home and that evening we took the girls to their very first Major League Baseball game. The Twins vs. the Indians. They loved it. Kaylee had a great time getting to shout at the players and say "go twins" and "bring 'em home Joe!"

M loved the popcorn more than she loved the cheering, but she still managed to get some applause in here and there.

The girls and I posed for one last photo before we left the game at the top of the 9th inning. We needed to head over to the river for the fireworks show. The girls really were troopers through all of this. They stayed up late and had so much fun!

Here's Daddy and K snuggling and catching the first few fireworks. K didn't like the noise but got used to it.
Shortly before the show started M started to tell us that she wanted to go to sleep. With a little encouragement, she managed to stay awake for the show. She wasn't thrilled with the loud booms that they made but still couldn't look away either.


On the way home the girls both crashed quickly. Unfortunately, they were up earlier than ever the next day. There was no sleeping late for Mommy on Saturday!
This is about 1 minute of the fireworks we saw in Minneapolis:

Untitled from Jen Carriker on Vimeo.