Love and baseball

Last Friday was opening day for Razorback baseball and this year it fell on Valentine's Day.  You couldn't ask for a more perfect day in my opinion.  Chris and I took the day off so we could enjoy some time off together.  Chris did have to go to a work breakfast so I got to have breakfast with my parents.  After that we met up at Brandon Eye Clinic to get Chris some new hipster glasses ordered.  He's wanted new frames for a while now.  We meet up with our baseball crew at Sassy's for some lunch before heading to the game.

My annual opening day picture with Ribby.

The game was pretty cold and since we were winning we decided to leave in the 6th inning.  We spent the night shopping and eating at our favorite fried chicken place.  We really didn't want to go somewhere fancy since we were going to Melting Pot with friends Saturday night in Tulsa and Chris had just booked our vacation to Rivera Maya, Mexico that day. If you've never been to Melting it's totally worth driving over to Tulsa to eat at. Just make sure that you haven't eaten a lot that day so you can enjoy all of the food! All in all it was a perfect way to spend Valentine's weekend.

May can't get here fast enough!!

Baseball recap

Well the baseball season for the Razorback Baseball team finished last Sunday.  We didn't make it out of regionals. But the last home series was actually last month.  I just never got around to posting pics from the final series.  Friday night was fireworks night but it really wasn't fun because we lost the game.  I'm kinda glad that baseball season is over with.  Normally I'm really sad about a season ending but it was really strange this year.  Maybe it was because we were crazy busy and didn't have a lot of spare time.  Hopefully next year we're better and we can at least make it to super regionals.

We couldn't pass up having our picture taken with Ribby in a suit.  The guy who actually plays Ribby graduated this year so it's my last picture with this Ribby.

Tusk was so happy to be at Baum Stadium.

Last game of the year.

February Recap

February went by with a whirl of activities.  Our friend Valerie came back from Germany to visit some local universities to recruit for Black Forest Academy.  We all went to Hugo's one of her favorite restaurants.  She stayed the night with us so we got to visit with her for a little bit longer.  We definitely miss them!

Chris surprised me for Valentine's Day with an antique picture frame from the Cellar Door Antiques.  One of my coworkers owns this store and they have great antiques.  If you love to go antique shopping you need to stop by her store.

We printed off a picture of the Bridge of Sighs from Venice, Italy.

We also decided to replace the other pictures on the mantel with pictures that we took in Venice.

The other thing that Chris got me for Valentine's Day goes along with one of my favorite things, Razorback Baseball! You guys have probably noticed I have an obsession with a particular mascot called Ribby. I just can't believe that it's baseball season again.  If you want to know where we'll be for the next several months you should probably check Baum Stadium.

Opening Day was pretty cold!

Poor Stephen was so cold that he wore his ski mask!! 

You know I had to have my picture taken with Ribby for opening Day!

Greg & Becky

Pretty good crowd for it being so cold.

Game 2 was pretty chilly too.

Chris wearing his hog hat his mom got him.

Thankfully game 3 was warm enough so that I could wear my new Ribby shirt.

College World Series

When we found out that the Razorbacks were going to be playing in the College World Series we decided we needed to go Omaha and support them!  We debated it for awhile and I'm so glad that we finally decided to go because we had an absolute blast.  I wish that we had more time to spend there but everyone to go back to work today.  We left Saturday morning at 4 in the morning and we got to Omaha around 10:00.  When we made it there it started raining and we weren't able to go see the old College World Series Stadium, Rosenblatt.  They wouldn't let anyone in since it was storming and we didn't have time to wait around for it to stop.  We got some pictures from the outside but I'm a little sad we didn't get to go in.  I've always wanted to go to Rosenblatt stadium and it's really sad that they are going to be demolishing it in a few days.

Beautiful sunrise on our way to Omahog

Bridge right outside of Kansas City

Rosenblatt Stadium

After we got done viewing Rosenblatt we headed over to the new stadium and found some parking underneath an overpass.  Since it was still raining we went to a local sports bar and got some really good food.  By the time we were finished with lunch it had thankfully stopped raining and we were able to go to the fan zone and then to the game.  The new stadium is really nice and our seats were awesome.  We paid more to have seats in the shade but I'm so thankful that we did.  I walked around a little bit during the game and it was so hot in the sun.

Bases loaded!

The view from our seats.

There were close to 24,000 people in attendance and the majority of them were Razorback fans.

The two Greg's who we went with.

I'm so glad that the Razorbacks won their first game and we play again tonight against South Carolina.  I'm hoping that we can pull out another win!  I can now say that I've been to the College World Series before!  After the game we went to a local Italian steakhouse and eat some really yummy food and then drove back to our hotel room which was two hours away.  We made one last stop at Rosenblatt to say goodbye to Omaha and the College World Series. WPS!

Rosenblatt Stadium at sunset.

I think this is how we all felt on the way home!

Baseball Windup

It seems just like yesterday that Razorback Baseball started but sadly the last home game was almost two weeks ago.  I'm kind of glad to see baseball season wrap since we'll have more free time but at the same time a little sad.  If we host a regional this year we won't be buying tickets since we are saving for our trip to Europe this September.  I love baseball season it's my absolute favorite sport to watch, so here's looking forward to next season!

Dwight's first baseball game.

St. Patrick's Day

Beautiful night at Baum Stadium!

Ribby giving me his best pose.

The last two games were so hot that I had to wear shorts!