Ranger’s Game

Jeremy took the boys’ to their first Ranger’s game when they were 3, we decided they were old enough to go again and maybe enjoy it a little.

We rode a trolley/bus so they wouldn’t have to walk very far.  (Great idea --- until you read the end).

Hagen singing the National Anthem, I just love this little boy to pieces!

Our seats were perfect, row 1, so we had no one in front of us.

We had high hopes… the Rangers were doing great – This Ranger’s player:

hit 4 homeruns in the game the night before our game. 

Nope, it wasn’t our night.  Thankfully, one homerun was hit, so the boys got to see some fireworks.

Guess we will just have to go again and see if some more homeruns are hit.

The trolley/bus broke down on our way back to where our car was … it was a little crazy and Jeremy and I shared some ‘panic’ looks.  But, we ended up getting back to our car and eventually home late, really late.  Thankfully the boys thought it was super cool they got to ride on 3 buses in one night!

My Birthday Celebration

I love how excited the boys get about a birthday – anyone’s birthday!  The other day we celebrated my birthday at Gran’s.  The boys were super excited --- not sure if it was because of cake or singing ‘Happy Birthday’, their two favorite things to do.

We started with this picture:

When I saw it… I said, wait a minute… we are missing someone!!  HA!  Here is the picture with our little hide and seeker.

On a different night the boys (all three) took me to my favorite restaurant.

Mason super excited to take a silly picture with me.

My boys

Also, Aunt Beee had a present of her own.  He decided to make an appearance the day before my birthday, but that is okay… it just means we get to celebrate for 2 days!!! 

We are SOO happy for Aunt B and Uncle H, they are going to be ah-mazing parents!

Is this NOT the sweetest picture ever???

Family Reunion: Part 4, Final Wrap-up

The whole family -

Our core family:

Leah and I relaxing

Mason and Mommy

Paucci and Mason

Sleeping in the tent.

My favorite part of the trip, laying in our tent – glow stick dangling from a hook above us, we talked about our favorite part of the day. 

Mommy: What was your favorite part from today?

Mason: the gator

Hagen: the gator

Daddy: my favorite part was fishing with my boys

…giggles…

Mommy: my favorite part is right now.

So much fun, no matter what we do, as long as we are all together…. I love it.  It made it even more special that we could do it with family.  The icing on the cake was how smooth everything went.  Thank you to Uncle Mike, Aunt Cheryl, and Aunt Pat for making some of the best memories we will ever have.

Family Reunion: Part 3, The Amazing Race… (more)

Each team had to rotate through the different challenges.  Each challenge had a ‘character’ at the station letting the team know what they needed to do in order to complete that challenge or leg of the race.

Woody (Uncle Mark), Mother Nature (Aunt Pat), Tabatha the Tennis Player (Aunt Nancy), Fountain of Youth (Kristin), Sacaquajea (Gran), Uncle Fester (Paucci)

Here are the challenge routes.

Teams getting their clues and checking the maps (they only had two minutes to study the map and return it):

All the teams lined up.

Woody’s O-K Corral, with Uncle Mark, Teams raced through the pins to find the animals and put them in the correct pins.

The Fountain of Youth had the teams drink from the fountain of youth and then the team had to push the team leader around the fountain wearing a diaper, bib and pacifier – getting younger at each turn.

Umm, Travis…. where is your diaper??

Tennis Challenge had a bunch of tennis balls at the tennis court.  Each ball had a letter on it.  The team had to find the letters to spell out Conner Reunion and balance it on the tennis racket as they brought it back to Tabatha (Aunt Nancy) to check their work.

Mother Nature (Aunt Pat) had animals hidden in the forest.  Each team had to find the animals along with different types of trash.  They had to take the trash and put it in the appropriate bucket (plastic water bottle in the ‘plastic’ bucket, etc.).  Last they had to identify what each animal eats.

The teams had to wear hats with moss, feathers and ?? all over it.

Can you spot the animals?

Sacaquajea (Gran) cracked me up… leave it to Gran to to take her role very seriously.  Jeremy said when Mason saw her, he said, Grrra-uuhh -nnnn!  Ha ha ha…. She had all kinds of requirements, they had to build a fire, make music, and paint their faces.  If you didn’t see the video posted yesterday, check it out, there is a whole part in there to see Gran’s Sacaquajea’s part.

Uncle Fester told the teams about the haunted Hoola Hoola fish in the pond.  They had to put on ghosts costumes and run around the lake making scary sounds.  Then they had to feed ??? to the fish in the pond (I think it was a brownie, but I’m sure it was called something else).  I could see this one from my post and it was hilarious to watch all the teams run around the pond in their ghost costumes.

The clue hut where teams checked in after each challenge.

The ‘staffers’

Okay… one more post and I will be finished.