A Little More Pre-Back-To-School

Today was the first day of First Grade for Arden and the first day of preschool for Cora, and the first soccer practice of the year for Dax!  I hate doing posts out of order, and I haven't even come close to finishing blogging about all the superfun stuff we did last week.  However, I am way to tired to try and blog about all of it tonight, so I will do one little chunk and then am I off to do a little running and then I shall jump into my wonderful bed.

Last Monday we took the kids to the last "Family Night" of the Salt Lake Bees baseball season ($5 for any ticket, plus a free hot dog, who can beat that?)  I was so excited.  For me, a baseball game on a warm night is one of the essential summertime experiences, and I only wish that we would have gone more often. 

At least in theory. 

We were quite a sight as we struggled to our seats during the first inning.  Daxton and Cora were having a screaming-hitting-drag-out fight over a half-inch long dinosaur toy, and Arden was whining because her hot dog bun had ripped ever so slightly.  Everyone wanted to sit by mom, but mom only has two sides and wants to eat her hot dog and no you can't sit on my lap right now.  The people behind us were probably dying as we made our noisy way down the aisle to sit in front of them.  Preston looked at me as soon as everyone was sitting down, still whining about the seating arrangement and how they didn't want mustard on their hot dogs anymore even though they just said that they really wanted mustard five seconds ago, "Okay, I am ready to go home now!"  I am not sure if we was joking, but I pretended he was.

After the kids finished their hot dogs (with the mustard wiped off) and Preston quickly followed that up with a bag of kettle corn, things started to be much happier, and thankfully, much less whiney!  The sun started to set and things started to cool off.  The mountains were purple behind the outfield, and (at least at this point) the Bees were winning!  Awesome!  It really is a beautiful ball park.

Here is Dax, chowing down on some kettle corn.  That kid can EAT when he gets going.  Not sure he knows much about baseball yet, but he knows that when we are at a baseball game, chances are he is going to get some kettle korn and possibly cotton candy, so he is totally in favor of baseball games.

Here is me and Arden, with Cora taking pictures (she also took pictures of Preston's feet, and a very close up picture of her nose and a few other choice shots that I won't share with you today). 

 Cora was so excited every time the Bee mascot came close.  She kept talking and talking about how she wanted to "swap him five."  Finally right before we were going to call it a night, he came and stood by our section.  A line of little kids quickly formed and Cora wanted to be IN that line.  Preston carried her over and we waited patiently for about 10 minutes so she could give the bee a high-five and get a picture with him.  When it was FINALLY her turn, she decided that she didn't like bees after all and wanted nothing to do with it.   Here is the closest thing we got of a picture of Cora with the Bee:

After that we decided it was time to go.  All the way back to the car in the dark Cora talked about the "monster" we had seen moving around on the Nightmare on 13th haunted house building (if you drive by there you know what I am talking about). She was very worried that big winged monster was going to "hop off the biw-ding and come and get us."  It took quite a bit of convincing to get her to believe it was only a pretend monster.  Everyone was pretty tired by the time we got home, especially since we weren't really recovered from Bear Lake.  But there was no rest for the weary, this was the last week of summer and we had to go out with a BANG!  See more later.