7th Annual Red Sox-Rangers Weekend: The Game

In August, we made our 7th Annual Red Sox vs. Rangers trip to Arlington. (Click here for last year's trip.) The biggest weekend highlights for the kids are the hotel swimming pool, the shuttle that carries us to and from the game, and peanuts and cotton candy. Can't get much simpler than that! Jeremy's aunt and uncle from Delaware (they are also Red Sox fans) and his sisters joined us this year, so we had a lot of fun hanging out with them, and the kids liked seeing their cousins again. And we only got one call from the front desk telling us to keep the kids' noise down, so we considered it a successful weekend! However, the weather was extremely hot this year, so we figure Elise's main parental-related complaint when she's 20 years old is going to be "You took me to a

 baseball game--where it was 106 degrees--when I was FIVE WEEKS OLD???" Well, she may have a point there. But, in our defense, we kept a cool wet washcloth on her the whole time and she was constantly being fanned. Throw in someone feeding her grapes, and she could have been confused with a Greek goddess. (And actually, the temp had probably dropped to a chilly 101 by game time, so why is she complaining anyway?) :)

The game goers

Our usual Daddy and kids picture--this group seems to grow larger every other year :)

The shuttle was crowded so big brother had to hold little sister on his lap. I thought it was too cute and couldn't resist taking a picture of such loving siblings.

First order of business: LARGE bottles of water for everyone! (Sloane LOVES wearing her hat. She asks for it regularly...when playing outside, going to school, going to the grocery store. Jeremy loves it!)

Can't go to a baseball game without playing games. Unfortunately, we left our seats after the 3rd inning and never got to return to them.

Home Run!! (You can see the white speck of a ball above the picture of the crowd.)

Even Sloane got to play games this year. She likes hitting the ball so maybe we have another little ball player on our hands!

Our annual family picture at the game.

Cute little Blair enjoying some cotton candy. Aunt Amy's poor pig tails are barely hanging on by this time of the night. 

Reid with a cotton candy mustache. This boy can never take a serious picture.

Wow, are they actually sharing nicely???

"Matchers" as Blair likes to call them.