july holiday - baseball

The Rogers family loves to go to a Card's game when everyone is home for the big 4th of July bash.

Here are some pictures of our crazy, funny family!

Me & Kevin

We had to arrive several hours before game start time because it was replica jersey night... I made fun of Kevin for wanting to go sooo early, but the line was crazy long to get in and apparently I didn't understand the dedication of true St. Louis Cardinal fans because if we hadn't gone so early we wouldn't have gotten a jersey!

Since we were early though we had time to go see the 2011 World Series trophy!

We also got to see Carlos Beltran's 2,000 hit... cool!

Claire got a better view than the rest of us!

We're making silly faces!

Our view from the top

The Rogers love us some baseball!!!

cards @ wrigley

Remembers how we just got to see the Cards @ Pittsburg here? Not even a week later we're off the see the Cards @ Wrigley - another new stadium for me! It was a fun day, but I told Kevin, it was too bad we were able to do all this stadium traveling in a year when the Cards are playing... umm let's just say, less than their best.

It rained poured almost the whole drive up, but then it turned out to be a beautiful day!

Unfortunately our seats were right behind this very beautiful pole - which apperently is pretty common at Wrigley. It wasn't so bad though - I got to snuggle close to kevin to see the action around the barrier (awww, sappy.).

our new pitcher

our star player (besides Molina, of course)

Enjoying the game

After the game, I somehow convinced Kevin that we needed to go to Ikea! I've never been before and have been dying to see what all the fuss is about. It was huge and not something you should ever take your shopping-adverse husband to, but it was a fun experience and got me thinking about lots of new house decorating options!

cards @ pittsburg

Wanna know the truth??? We spent a couple of extra days hanging around Pittsburg just so we could see the Cardinals play the Pirates on Monday night... I'm not complaining or anything, just putting the truth out there/

This is how excited I was to be at a new stadium!!!

Here's the view of the stadium from our boat tour the day before.

Here's the view from inside the stadium. We were a little early so there's not a lot of ppl there yet, but it was a really nice stadium and it was smaller so you were pretty much right on top of the game!

Not sure why we're happy at this point b/c the Cardinals definatly lost this game :/

See how close we were we got some decent player pics even with our wimpy zoom!

Go Pujols!!!

Gooo Cornbelters

We finally made it to a Cornbelter's last week. This is the second year the Cornbelter's have been in town and the stadium is so close to our house that Kevin and I talked a lot last year about going, but never actually made it out. It's a really nice stadium and we lucked out with a pefectly beautiful evening for spending it out doors! We bought "lawn" seat tickets which only cost $5 - that's very affordable for an evening out (if you limit the food purchases of course!) and more comfortable than the bleachers!

Here's Corny, the team's mascot

Amy, Ella & J.D.

It was Ella's first baseball game! I'm betting "Let's go Cards" will

be her first whole sentance!

Here's Kevin & I from the lawn chair section

And Klarisa, Erica & Ella ejoying the evening

Every Friday is CEFCU fireworks night so we got to see

our team win and enjoy some great fireworks!

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On Wednesdays you can bring your dogs to enjoy the game too! 

I can't wait to take Mia & Callie to their first baseball game! They're gonna love it!