Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Home of the Braves!!

We just got home from spending a wonderful 4th of July weekend in Atlanta! I hadn't seen my cousins and their babies since Christmas! There was about to be trouble if I didn't see them really soon.

Friday night I got to experience my first Braves baseball game!! It was wonderful. Wonderful! We had good seats on the right field line. Too bad their star rookie, right fielder was on the injured list. But Chipper Jones was back!! I was so excited to see him play in real life, I've had a crush on him since middle school. He may be 39 years old be he can seriously still hang with those younger guys. He's the third baseman so I didn't see him that well but I could still cheer very loudly for him! ;) Actually, he's a real crowd favorite. The whole place erupted EVERY time he got up to bat. They went into 11 innings and finally scored the winning run!! And of course we stayed for the fireworks! I loved my first MLB game, I really wish we lived closer and we would go to so many more games!

Saturday we had a nice relaxing day with salon time and shopping. My cousin Holly is a cosmetologist and since she had to work that day she wanted us to come for a visit. Fine by me! She always wants to do my hair every time we are together! So my sissy and I got a haircut! And of course some shopping time afterwards. The men stayed home and played with the new grill and got in a few tournaments of red-neck golf (ladder ball!) We also squeezed in a little pool time. That night we had a fun cookout and the best part was.... homemade Reese cup ice cream!!!!!!! It was amazing.

Sunday we loaded up everyone and headed to the lake for the day. The weather was perfect the whole weekend. It was hot, but not miserable like it has been for the last month. Kyle and I stayed on the boat most of the day and did some tubing and a lot of laughing. My Mom and aunt tried the tube too, that was pretty funny! After about 5 hours or so the babies were exhausted and we were all hot, sandy and tired too. I was in a car with the one baby who doesn't sleep on car rides. The poor dear cried, no actually she screamed the whole hour drive home. She didn't want anything but her Momma, who was driving. It was pitiful. I know she slept great that night though, haha. We got home and had pizza and did some small fireworks out in the yard. It was such a fun day and a great way to celebrate our nation's Independence Day!

Monday morning we were up way too early to head back home! Fun times and great memories!

*Sorry about the quality of some of these pictures, some were taken with a cell phone!*

Dad and Kyle at the lake


The parents (oh yeah, we were all super cool in our patriotic shirts)


Joli


Turner Field


GO BRAVES!


the cousins: Kip, Jessica, Holly, Me, Kyle and Leah


me and Holly


me and Nevie not looking at the camera :/


Princess Nevie

2 comments:

Michelle said...

It's amazing how much babies grow in 6 months! Looks like a really fun time. Super cute bathing suit, by the way ;-)

Courtney said...

Looks like you guys had a great weekend!