Monday, September 28, 2009

Suprise Trip for the Boys

I have felt like a neglectful parent to my kids, in the sense that I can't focus on them all as good as I would like. My older kids do a lot of work. Not chores per say, but they have a lot expected of them with dad gone. I wanted to do something for the older kids to show them how proud I am of them with all they have been through the last 18 months. We are St Louis Cardinal fans and I realized they were playing in Denver soon, so I put together a weekend with Robbie and Jake (in all fairness I am taking Ellie with me to Portland in October). The boys had no idea this was going to happen. I told them I was checking them out of school to take them to lunch. Robbie asked where we were going to lunch and I told him Cafe Rio and he said he rather stay at school. So we get home and on the table is Cardinal t-shirts, airplane tickets and game tickets. Jake just saw the t-shirts and was like, gee thanks for the shirt? I had the explain, no we are leaving right now to get on a plane to go to the game tonight. It took about a minute to sink in what we were really doing. We had such a great time. The game Friday night was close but the Rockies won in the bottom of the ninth. We got to go down on the field to watch the fireworks after the game. I turned to the boys and said, when you woke up this morning, could you have even imagined that you would be laying in the middle of Coors Field tonight? We got to stay with Garret and Tiffany Anderson, our good friends from college. We stayed up all night talking and laughing! Spent Saturday with them and went to another game Saturday night. Yes the Cards won the NL Central with that win! There were tons of Cards fans there cheering. We all had a great time!


Jake and I in front of Coors Field














Down on the field for fireworks
Robbie and Jake sick of me taking pictures
Jake watching Batting Practice
Saturday night when the Cards won the NL Central!

6 comments:

Dee Dee Cox said...

The pictures are wonderful. I too am a ST. Louis Cardinal fan. What a fun time for you and the boys.

Elder Jack Anderson said...

Of course we loved having you guys! The late night chats were the best. See you in a couple weeks!

Jenandgeoffrey said...

Not that this is a surprise to anyone, but you're such a great Mom. What a secret to keep. It looks like you had a blast!

MakingChanges said...

SO much fun! What an awesome thing to do!

Holly Smith said...

I think you win the cool mom of the year award with that one. Sorry to hear you guys are Cardinals fans though. I have to say that though after living in Denver we are still Rockies fans. I really enjoy seeing how you are doing and think of you often.

KeriLyn and Matthew said...

How fun......what a crazy mom you are!!! Crazy in a good way :)!!! I am sure your boys loved it.....how fun for them, and for you!!!