Opening day...

I never had a clue how busy opening day of baseball would be. First we had to stay up late Friday night to start decorating our float. In small town this is a big deal! The tradition has been around for A LONG TIME and you decorate a trailer that goes with the theme of your team.We are the Cardinals and we are also the youngest team so we decided to be Baby Cardinals. So on Friday night we started the balloons, getting streamers together, hay and all kinds of stuff. It ended up being fun. BUT Saturday morning we had to get up at 6 a.m to get the float to our start point and finish putting everything on. WHAT A LONG DAY! But everything went as planned, the boys were great and we had no accidents or problems.



I am not sure who had more fun...us or the boys. So the good news is we won 3rd place out of 57 floats!! Very exciting for our first year. After the parade then the games start to kick off the season. Along with carnival activities, picture day and lots of running around.


Daddy even got to leave work for a few minutes to come watch. I could see the excitement on his face as Nick went by. He had no idea I was even near taking pictures.


One of the boys "mimi" made the hats for us. Everyone took their hat off as soon as the parade was over...except my baby bird. He was still wearing it at 8 that night.


This is what it is all about...I wish I had been at a different angle when he hit the ball. I can see his happy little face as he hit the ball. By the way it went past the pitcher's mound.

So after these proud moments of running around the ball fields all day I sat down last night and my mind was still going a million miles an hour. Days like this make me so proud. I was teary as the float pulled away. This is what being a parent is all about. The happiness of seeing your kids cheering each other on, parents cheering, little kids having meltdowns from playing so hard. I love it. I have to mention also that Natalie woke at 6:30 to help out. We both ran along the float for what I thought was going to be a slow roll only to find out it was a fast jog! I was also happy that Lauren had to opportunity to go see friends, mall or whatever else new drivers want to explore and instead she was right there cheering her brother on as he passed by!


It is the simple things in life..but sometimes the simple things are what matter the most.