Baseball and Boy Stuff

When Christian found out that the Yankees were playing in Chicago this year, he immediately started hatching plans to watch a few games. When he realized that they were playing three games in Chicago over Father's Day weekend, it was a done deal.

Christian and Carter left on Wednesday {June 15th} to spend the night in Salt Lake and be ready for their flight on Thursday morning. After spending most of Thursday in airports they arrived at their hotel and got settled in for a weekend full of baseball, sons, fathers, and brothers.

On Friday they met up with the rest of their party. Carl flew from SLC with them, Dustin came from Texas, and Carson drove up from Marion. According to Carter, the Cubs won and some old man robbed me of a ball. C.C. Sabathia threw a ball in Carter's direction during batting practice, and an old man reached over his shoulder and stole it. Very traumatizing for a five year old. He later asked Christian if he could wear all green and hide in the ivy in the outfield and wait for another ball... good plan, but sadly not feasible.

Here are a couple of handsome Yankee fans {Roz, I know you will gag when you see the words "handsome" and "Yankees" in the same sentence}.

All Yankee fans with one Cubs fan thrown in there. Luckily for their brotherly bond, the Cubs won on Friday and the Yankees won on Saturday.

The highlight of the trip, and of Carter's young life, was when Carter was picked to go down on the field during batting practice and stand near the team. While waiting to get into the field early on Saturday morning, the person in charge of choosing the kids saw Carter patiently waiting and gave him a field pass. Christian was so jealous!

Carter was a little nervous without his dad with him, but they allowed the parents to sit in the row of seats behind the kids. Carter got very close to some very famous Yankees, but with all the Cubs fans {and being a little nervous}, he didn't push his way to the front. He did, however, get Joe Girardi former player and current manager to sign a ball for him.

You can see the Yankees stretching out just feet away from one of their biggest little fans.

There's his ball. He was very proud, and had a great time. It was fun for Christian to spend time with his dad and son and brothers. When he got home he said, "I can't wait until I can take Caleb too." Me too...