After Graduation

AFter graduation, we played around with Ashton's family.  We went to the zoo for the last time and we even caught one last baseball game.

These 2 really are friends.  

We saw these cute little mustache birds in the aviary board walk.  I just loved them!

Juliette watching her "mingos"

JJ swinging in the gorilla house

Dex with a shark.  He was sad to say goodbye to them. :(

JJ saying goodbye to her upside down jellies.

These are the cookies I made for the BBQ we had with everyone.

Then we went to the new Werner Park to watch the Omaha Storm Chasers.  It was pretty fun.

Dex was patiently waiting to catch a ball the whole time

Crayson even got him a foul ball!

Ashton took Dex and Crayson geocaching, and Dex came home with these flowers.  They were my first flowers picked by my little boy!

"Bay" Ball Game

Oh my sweet little Dexter loves sports. Anything to do with a ball, he is there, playing, watching, he loves it! The title is how he says Baseball game.---cute, I know. :)

Well during finals week, Ashton took a little break from studying and treated Dex and I to a night out on the town. We went to the alumni baseball game complete with dinner and a bus ride to the stadium. It was pretty fun. Dexter got a balloon puppy that partially popped on the grass and then got lost at the stadium. I didn't even get a picture of it with him before the afore mentioned catastrophes happened. Bummer.

We had a fun time. We went in our Creighton shirts, ate yummy chicken sandwiches, enjoyed some company by the Stewarts (some pharmacy friends. He just graduated and they moved a few days after the game to Flagstaff, AZ where he got a job). Then we caught a bus ride over, which I think was Dexter's favorite part. He got a seat all to himself and the windows were really low, so he could see perfectly well outside. He loved it! Then we sat and watched the Blue Jays play in the new AmeriTrade Park Stadium. It is the shmanciest stadium I've ever been in. It was also one of the hottest days of the year thus far. 96 degrees F! Yes, I typed it correctly, no there isn't a problem with your eye site. It was that hot---in MAY! A few days later though it was back down into the 60's. Crazy weather.

Well, we didn't make it through the whole game. The buses back started at 8:30pm or the top of the 7th inning, which ever came first. I think it was the 4th inning by 8:30pm and we had a stir crazy, up past bed time little boy, so we left.

It was so nice just to get out and do a fun outing as a family.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Last Saturday, we had a fantastic day. It started out with a beautiful morning spent at the farmer's market in downtown Omaha. We got some beautiful produce, sourdough bread, homemade root beer, and stunning peonies. I just LOVE farmer's markets. They are so much fun.

Then we chilled at home and had the Bourne family over for steak, and some luscious salad from the beautiful produce, and bread we had gotten earlier in the day. After that, we went to a ball game!

We went to the Rosenblat Stadium and watched the Omaha Royals play Round Rock Express (I think). We had so much fun. Our seats were 4 rows behind the dugout near the third base line. (Thank you Kevin and Karen!) Dexter enjoyed it all too. They had bubble/balloon people that came out on the field during down times and Dexter just loved them. At about the 7th inning, Dexter started getting fussy because it was past his bed time, so I went up in between sections to kinda calm him down, and one of the characters came up by us. Dexter just stared at him. After he walked passed us and came back, Dexter was so excited and kept waving at him. It was so cute.

Ethan

Kevin

Ali, Dexter, Karen, and Alex