It’s Memorial Day weekend, and I plan on taking some time to reflect on why this weekend exists. I also plan on going to the baseball game on Monday.  I like going to ballgames on Memorial Day.  Thumper’s first baseball game was on Memorial Day 2013. It all seems so long ago now….

When we went to our first Mariners game this season, the giveaway that night was the now-famous Mariner “beard hat.”  After Tad had borrowed one from Auntie for Crazy Hair/Hat Day at school, he wanted one of his own.  However, because traffic was so fantastically hideous that evening, we missed the giveaway. Lucky for us, […]

Take me out to the ballgame…. Because despite hideous traffic and barely making it there in time, we got to our first baseball game of the season on Friday!  And it was quite an intense game.  It was a pitcher’s duel, through and through. The Mariners were no-hit through 5 innings, but that changed when […]

We are going to our first baseball game of the season tonight!  Hurray and thank goodness for Auntie’s free tickets! All three of the older kids were excited about going – especially Ane, as she is kicking off her standardized testing today, and feels that a baseball game is a perfect payoff for having to […]