All Star—FanFest

MLB All Star
Fan Fest
Was the best we could do to Celebrate the All star game in Arizona. There was no way we were gonna spend $350 a ticket for nose bleeds to the game or home run derby. So we decided to just go to Fan Fest. It's where they have tons of different baseball booths, free stuff, lots of stuff for the kids, Autographs by past players. Anyway there was a lot to see and do.

In line to do the Baseball Combine—they time you to see how fast you run around the bases, how fast you throw the ball etc...

Of course Ava will pose for me, and Gavin was to busy preparing mentally.
He took it very Seriously!

Even Ryan got to play!

Everything Gavin did, the workers would say "wow that kid is amazing for only being 2"
"He has such a great Arm" everyone was asking how old he was.
Most kids his age couldn't throw a ball, hit a ball or was as serious as Gavin was!

Coolest thing for Gavin—combine baseball with cars... couldn't be better!

Stealing bases

The Commissioner's Trophy
They had a lot of different trophies like the home run derby trophy, most stolen bases trophy etc.. but they were all in glass cases. But they had this one out so you could take pictures with it. But it was surround by guards. Making sure you don't touch it, break it, steal it whatever. So of course Ava had to touch it, and boy did those workers gasp, and say "don't touch it" like she was trying to steel it. Now Ava can always say she touched The Commissioner's Trophy !


Lots of Fun...
Maybe someday we'll be able to go to the All Star Game!

4th of July

(Ava's cute FLAG poster she made!)

4th of JULY
Was filled with lots of Swimming, Tacos, Fruit Pizza! Homemade Root beer and very sad to say NO fireworks! I know... Lame!

the 2 crazy kids!

My yummy Fruit Pizza!
Looks so Good... I think i need to make another one very SOON!

Eric made
Homemade Root Beer
with the kids! The kids loved it of course!
And it was way good... and very Slushy! Just the way I like it!

Happy 4th of July!

underwater camera

We didn't use all the pictures from our awesome
water camera
we got for the river. So we used the rest of the pictures at the pool with the kids.
Here are the ones that turned out.
enjoy!

Pretty AWESOME!

tubing salt river

The 4th of July Weekend Mimi, Papa and Rachel, Braden came to AZ to visit...So we had to find activities to do to stay cool.
Tubing the Salt River
happened to be one of them.
I have to say we were a little nervous at first. But it actually was really fun. It was a mixture of exciting, scary and relaxing.
Not everyone got to come— or wanted to come. the little kids being the ones who didn't get to come and Mimi being the one who didn't want to come.

Here are some of the Pictures we took with the cheap water camera we bought for this special occasion—hence how terrible they look.

Eric with his Awesome cut off Jeans!

Ryan with the tube holding the cooler.

Me with my awesome cold sore. Rachel and Braden in the background doing work.

Eric and Olivia

Next time we do it, we definitely need to tie our tubes together, we kept getting separated. Amy was by herself for the most part and rob kept joining other groups. I think cause they had better drinks then us!

Seth baseball tournament

A couple weeks after my family came to AZ to Visit. Seth came back to AZ for a
Baseball Tournament
It was so much fun being able to see Seth play...
The tournament was at Diablo Stadium (The stadium where the Angels play for Spring training)
Too bad it was 110 outside! It was so bad. As you can see in these pictures... we just look hot!

Love this picture!

One night he had a game at 7:30, and even with the sun down it was still SO hot! We were spraying the kids with water and had to take Gavin's shirt off. We didn't last long that game.

But even with all HEAT it was still so much fun having Seth so close to us. It was so much fun going to the games (they ended up taking 2nd in the tournament) going swimming and just being able to hang out with him.

mini golf

So a little bit ago we went with the Nielsen's
Miniature Golfing.
We went to Golf Land one night before it got really hot outside!
lets just say it was fun, a little crazy and not so much a serious round of golf.
OK it was serious for Gavin. He was the only one that really took it serious. Savvy probably knew that he was trying to be serious too, because she kept steeling his golf ball and running away with it. Made him so mad.

yeah, miniature golfing with with 5 kids and one of them being savvy was very interesting!

I don't know why i didn't take a lot of pictures... maybe cause it was hot outside and humid because of the water park right next to us, or maybe just trying to keep up with all the kids and trying to stay focused on my golf game—couldn't let Ryan beat me! (which he did-of course)
Very Fun... definitely have to go again—Because Gavin Loved it!

Real Cars

Cars, Cars and more Cars
is one of Gavin's obsessions right now.
He loves watching cars... ok he loves the beginning and the end of the movie. The middle of the movie is too boring for him. he only likes the "tar race" parts.
When the Real Cars came to AZ we had to go see them.

The Cars were at Tempe Market Place (an outdoor mall) so after we saw them we went and got something to eat and went into a few stores. when we walked into a store, i looked behind me and Ava and her friend Kate weren't behind us. i started to get a little worried, i walked outside the store yelling for them. Then i turned and what do i see in the store window...
Ava and Kate posing.
Of course that's where Ava would be!

I tried so hard to get Gavin to look at me to take a picture, but i got nothing. he only wanted to look at the cars! this was the best picture i got! So cute trying to look at me and the Cars!

PS. The car in his hand goes everywhere with him. It makes this loud noise when he rolls the car on the ground. It is so annoying! We've hidden it, purchased cars that don't make noise, and everything else you could think of to get rid of that loud, annoying car. It's still around.