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.