Mudcats 2010

John and I have played slo-pitch with a great group of friends for many years. This was the first year that we did not enter a team into the Red Deer league. This year too many of the people on our team either have kids or are pregnant, so we decided to enter a weekend tournament instead.

We found one in Rocky Mountain House and decided to camp. I was a little (okay a lot) nervous about taking the boys out camping, but we had SO. MUCH. FUN!

We got out the coolers on Thursday night after the boys had gone to bed. When they woke up and found them on Friday morning they were in love! The coolers may even be more fun than the vacuum!

Here is Matthew helping us with the cooler.

When we arrived at the campsite Bennett came in the Acadia to say hi to the boys. He then went down the row, licked each of their feet, and then their faces! HAHAHA!!! He was playing kitty!

Here was the inside of one of the coolers...different bottles than coolers in previous years!

Here are the fellas playing inside the trailer when we first got up.

Each time we got to the diamonds the boys would sit in their strollers and watch for about 10-15 minutes before they wanted out to play...such a bonus because usually as soon as the stroller stops they want out right now!

Some of the kiddos out playing.

Little Luc

Matthew and Nathan playing with the stroller.

Mr. Matty eating a clover.

The boys have been walking for a little while now...this weekend they started running. SO CUTE!

Sammy showing Matthew some neat stuff.

Shawn and 2 of the boys just chillin!

Here are the boys cheering on the mudcats!

Daddy and Luc, I love this picture :)

Uncle G was a huge help with the boys when our players were out in the field! Thanks G!

Matthew and Curt sitting around the campsite

The boys also loved the broom! These guys love cleaning supplies as much as their Daddy! We are going to have the cleanest house on the block!

I wasn't going to put this picture up but look at how many kids are in that one little corner of the shot! You could always figure out where our team was playing by all of the strollers and kids on the sidelines.

Lucas ready to play ball!

The boys climbed in and out of this stroller for probably half an hour. Here is Bennett helping Nathan get out.

This is how you turn a double stroller into a triple :)

Nathan in the jumper, check out those jibs!!! (teeth hahaha)

Lucas and Aunty K cooking up some Sunday Breakfast.

Friends Forever!

We ended up losing by one run in the semi-finals and then the third place game got rained out. All in all we had a FANTASTIC time with some FANTASTIC friends!

Take me out to the ball game...

Saturday was a fun filled day for the fab four and five alive! We started off our day with a tour of Seattle on one of the "Ducks". The tour was a ton of fun, music pumping, people dancing, and a very fun transition from land to water...that's right it drove right into the water and became a boat!

Here are all 9 of us packed into two seats!One of the cool things that we saw on the water part of the tour was the house that they used for Sleepless in Seattle!
The boat used for Pirates of the Caribbean!

Another neat thing that we saw was the buliding that they used for the outside shots of Grey's Anatomy. You have all heard of McDreamy and McSteamy...but have you heard of McScreamy??? Because we had three of them at one point of the trip!!!

Out on the Water

Captain Matthew

Captain Nathan

Captain Lucas (trying to read the manual so he can figure out how to drive the duck himself! hahaha)

After our duck ride was over we grabbed some lunch and had a picnic at the bottom of the space needle.

Here is Daddy and Matty

Daddy and Lucas

Daddy and Nathan (this is a great optical illusion because he was not actually 1/4 of the way up the space needle)

In Seattle 1% of bulding costs has to be spent on public art, such a fun idea because it is really fun to see all of the sculptures around the city. Here we are posed in one that is at the bottom of the space needleé

After Lunch at the space needle we headed back to the hotel to get ready for the Mariners game. Here are the two proud papas pushing the strollers to the game.

Mel, Adam and Johnny enjoying a ball park hotdog!

Me and my boys at the game

The Roths

Daddy holding two of his boys (and if you look close you can see the third in the front seat of the stroller behind the gate)

Here we all are at the game! We were one seat short of filling up our entire row!

Safeco field had an AWESOME play park for the kids. John and I found a spot in the back where we could feed the fellas!

One lap around safeco and Nathan was asleep, he slept in the stroller through all the cheers and boos!

Lucas and Matthew took 2 laps to fall asleep but then were out like rocks!

Bottom of the seventh and it is the first pitch that we actually get to watch!!! hahaha

The boys were awesome at the game. We ended up leaving during the bottom of the eighth...Mariners were down one nothing. As we were making our way out of the stadium we heard a GIGANTIC cheer and when we looked to see what happened they had just hit a GRAND SLAM!!!

Since it was our lsat night in the hotel I thought that I should take a picture of the boys in their pea pods. So here they are, the blanket was just over top to keep all the light off until we were ready to go to bed. (and John sleeps in a bed, he was just kissing Nathan goodnight)

We left Seattle Sunday morning and made it home by 10:30! We had an AWESOME time on the holiday but we are all happy to be home!