We made our yearly trek down to the ATL for some baseball over the Memorial Day holiday. Being on the heels of Cade's birthday bash it turned out to be a pretty fantastic weekend for him! We passed Lanie off to mom and dad and headed down for a Sunday night and Monday day game.
As always, the boys were thrilled to get a hug and an autograph from their favorite MLB player. Watching baseball is so much more fun when you have a friend hitting homers! Grant challenged him with, "Hey, Daniel, I've got something for ya. If you hit a homerun then I'll give you five bucks. If you DON'T hit one then you owe ME five bucks. How 'bout it?" Daniel said he'd take that deal all day long. I'm glad he signed a big buck contract though because he now owes Grant ten bucks. Surely he's good for it!
Watching professional baseball players take bp is a little boy's dream.....
or is it more for the big boy?? I think we all know the answer to that one!
The boys filled their hats with autographs this time. We're now running out of room. Cade finally decided that it's time to retire his hat to the bookshelf so the signatures don't fade off. He's finally understanding this stuff :) We were lucky to get Michael Borne and Martin Prado to come over.
Tyler Pastornicky found a space on the bill for his name. Too bad he's been sent back to AAA :(
Cade got up close with teenage phenom Bryce Harper. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that he's 19 and playing in the major leagues.
Sunday night's tickets had us sitting behind the Braves Dugout. Pretty good seats if there weren't a big, big man in a red shirt for me to have to look through :/
Midway through the game I noticed Rhett was using his ice cream collector's cap as a real cap. Goof ball.
We all decked out in our Brave's gear for Monday's game. A nice old man stopped and asked if he could take our picture and I'm quite surprised that he actually got us all in the frame! It's always funny to see people try to use my camera. The results are usually a disaster!
We caught up with Brandon Beachy to round out autographs on our hats. He was nice, heading down a very, very long line of people wanting his autograph.
We got tickets further up under the overhang so we weren't frying for Monday's game. It was quite nice up there with a cool breeze and we didn't need sweat bands and sunscreen. What I DID need was a box of tissues! Turner Field had a special Memorial Day presentation and I nearly almost had an emotional breakdown. The kicker was when a soldier father was reunited with his family (without them knowing that he was there). It was truly awesome to see. I hope my boys will remember this part of the game as well. I hate that it takes some years under your belt and quite a bit of maturity to appreciate the price of our freedom.
It was another great family weekend at Turner Field. We can't wait to get back!
