Rallyback Reunion

KK and I met up with a former Rallyback, Gina at a Dbacks game.  Gina and I were on the original Rallybacks squad back in 2006.  We were called the "I'm Lovin' it Crew" back then because we were sponsored by McDonalds. Rallybacks is a much better name.

Back in the Day

Now Days

It was nice catching up with Gina and seeing some familiar faces.  Chuck, the stadium announcer, was kind enough to show KK his booth after the game.  I think KK has little announcer written all over her.   I cannot wait until she's old enough!

Thank you Chuck and Gina!

Fight for First

The Dbacks have been playing well lately and with the playoffs right around the corner, they did a "Fight for First" promotion with $5 tickets.  It had been a while since we've been to a game so we decided last minute to head to the ballpark.  It's nice that it's only a few miles from our house.  

Our seats were in the nosebleeds by the play area so when we got there we let KK play.

Then we fed her some yummy ballpark snacks.

My boss and his wife were at the game and had extra tickets so they invited us down to their nice seats.  I love those seats.  Something good always happens to us when we sit in them.  This time Ty caught a shirt during the t-shirt toss and...wait for it...caught a foul ball!  WITH a beer and Dbacks rattle in the other hand I might add.  Now that my friends is talent.

KK loves the idea of Baxter...just not Baxter up close.  Baxter was walking by the aisle and KK was screaming for him (in a good way).  Baxter...PLAY!!!

Then Diane decided to take her down to see him and she flipped out.  No way!  No way! NO WAY!!!

The picture is blurry because I was laughing so hard.  

We had a great time at the game and the Dbacks ended up winning.  Every time something good happened (didn't matter what team) Kaylynn wanted to clap.  Here she is when Parra homered.  Pure excitement.

KK ended the night by saying "baseball game tomorrow?"  Yes honey, you get to go to a game tomorrow too!  Lucky girl!  Sometimes I'm jealous of her.  Ha ha.

Jambo Park

For Parker's 3rd Birthday we went to Jambo Park, an indoor amusement park.  It was such a great time!!  They had a gigantic jungle gym, train ride, carousel, spinning barrel of monkeys, rocket ships and all sorts of arcade games.  They even had a bounce house but KK was NOT interested.  She's not a fan.  KK munched on pizza and cupcakes too and loved them both!  Happy Birthday Parker!

Carousel

 

Parker - The Birthday Girl

Barrel of Monkeys

Friends 

Rockets 

Slide

Delish Pizza

Cupcakes

Goodie Bag Fun!

Ya-kur Practice

KK can't say her "s" sound yet so she calls "soccer" "ya-kur."  She's really enjoying playing lately and asks to play every night before bed.  I hope she continues to like it because that would make daddy so happy!  She is getting pretty good at dribbling and loves scoring goals.

My Buddy

Tiko and KK are buddies.  I'm so glad we decided to get her a friend!  

Tubing

We went to the lake with some friends and had a blast. The weather was absolutely beautiful. Overcast and not oven-like outside with a nice breeze. The water temperature was 85. Perfect in my opinion. I decided to take KK on the tube for the first time and she did pretty good. She laughed and wasn't scared. She didn't enjoy being in the lake water that much, even if we were holding her, so she spent the majority of the time in the boat.

Here we are tubing. (We actually didn't get a picture of KK tubing unfortunately).

KK made a great flag girl. She enjoyed holding it...a little too much. She was very possessive of it.

Family picture!

Even though KK skipped her nap we sure had a great time at the lake. We're thinking of going again next weekend.

Luau

We decided to have a small BBQ at our house to celebrate my birthday and to wrap up summer before Ty goes back to school tomorrow. Anyone that knows me knows that I love a themed party. I went all out. I had lots of Hawaiian themed decorations (thanks to the dollar store) and a bunch of yummy luau themed foods. A party wouldn't be complete without some delicious umbrella drinks...and we had plenty!

We ended up having 12 adults and 5 kids under the age of 3...all girls. We had a great time and all the girls had so much fun playing with each other.

Party People

4 out of the 5 girls keeping KK's room clean. Ha!

Friends

Such a fun night with amazing friends! I'm so lucky. Thank you to everyone who made my birthday so special.

OMG

I've been behind on blogging because I've been having technical difficulties. I'd try to upload pictures onto the blog but my computer would freeze. I ended up transferring all my pictures to an external hard drive after my last computer issue and have been using that hard drive ever since. Well sure enough, after 4 months of having this external hard drive, it decided to kick the bucket. I thought we'd be able to recover the photos but the geeks at the Genius Bar said we are SOL. So just like that *poof* every single picture I have ever taken is gone. All of them. I guess that is what I get for keeping all my pictures on a single external hard drive and not in several places. Lesson learned. Back up your computer to more than one external hard drive. I can't believe they are all gone. KK's birth. Our vacations. Our family photos. Everything. Gone. I'm super bummed to say the least.

Charley, Avery and KK

KK loves meeting up with her friends on the weekends. This weekend we got to meet up with Charley and Avery. I used to work with both of their dads but now find myself to be good friends with their wives too. We all have girls. KK is the oldest. Avery is about 7-8 months younger than KK and Charley is about 9 months younger than Avery.