Take me out to the Ballgame!

It just so happened that for Kenzie's birthday, we had tickets to go to the Hawks baseball game that night. So, after dinner that day, we headed out for some fun at the ballpark.

That day though, Kenzie opened a few presents. She got some styling sunglasses and also what every princess needs...

...her own crown. We thought it would be fun to be at the ballpark and let all the attention be on her. She loved wearing her crown! The butterfly lights up. Kenzie acted lots older than 6 that night. We put that crown on her and she acted like royalty. Humble royal, though. She wasn't bossy or demanding. She walked around like she wanted to be noticed but didn't draw attention to herself. She just smiled the entire night and was happy the whole night.

Before the game, we had Strawberry Shortcake for her birthday cake. Sorry, no pictures! We scarfed the cake down pretty quick and then hurried into the park so we could get to all the fun things they had to do. They have some jump houses for the kids and a fun little ball diamond to play in.

Austin, Grant, Braydon, Kenzie and Madison waited very patiently in the heat for someone to come and bring a bat and ball to play with.

Here's the scoreboard before the game started. We wanted to document that we went on Kenzie's birthday!

This could be called Trouble! No, they really are good boys but don't be fooled with those smiles. Those smiles are seen more often than not by them. Mischievious!

Aren't we cute? The girls had bright red faces for most of the night because they played hard in the jumphouses for a few hours and it was about 98+ degrees that night. Luckily, we bought tickets so we were along the 3rd base line and IN THE SHADE! It was worth the couple extra dollars.

What can I say? She loves her daddy! If I would have held her on my lap, she would have thrown a fit and screamed most of the time. I did take her down to were the kids played though and she walked around for awhile. She did good at the ball game too!

This was so funny! Mayci saw this bird walking around and she kept saying hi and waving to it. She loves to wave and say hi to everyone that we see. She wouldn't stop looking at this mascot though. After a few minutes of the mascot walking and talking to others around us, it decided it wanted to come and say hi to Mayci. Mayci squealed and smiled and was kind of excited to see him. That didn't last very long though. Once it got right by Mayci, she hung tight to my shirt and wasn't so sure of herself.

We tried to get her to give him "5" and that wasn't going to happen. We even tried to get her to give him a kiss. I had to demo everything and she still wouldn't try it.

She wanted nothing to do with him! Oh well, maybe another time!

Here's the birthday girl hanging out by where the pitchers warm up.

We tried to keep Mayci entertained and she had fun for awhile pushing chairs around by the concession stands. Then Kenzie and I let Mayci show off with some sunglasses.

I think my kids closed the jump houses down. They played in the kid area for almost the entire game.

The Hawks lost the game but it was a fun game. They almost had it won and ended up barely loosing. I love spending time as a family anywhere. The funny thing that kids say and do will be fun to remember later. Oh, Grant and Austin got to go out on the field between one of the innings and sing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' with about 30-40 other kids. I tried getting a picture of it but it all happened so fast and by the time I had Mayci under control and got the camera ready, they were already coming back off the field.

After the jump houses were shut down, the kids sat up by us again and it was pretty dark at this point. We were sitting underneath one of the field light posts and it was swarming with bugs. Mayci was squealing at all the bugs that were all over Justin's back. She would put her finger on a bug and then squeal. She even grabbed one bug and squished it! She didn't get that from me. She must have watched her dad squish a bug before. What fun memories we made that night.