Friday, June 18, 2010

Happy Birthday Caden!

(I don't know why it's posting as Friday the 18th since I posted this Sunday the 20th morning... oh well.) Caden turned four on Tuesday! We had a joint party at a park on Monday with two of his friends who also turn four this month. Then on Tuesday he opened presents and played with his new toys and the wii all day, and when Taylor got home we all made his dragon birthday cake. Then on Saturday, we took him to the movie Toy Story 3, that was really fun.

Caden is such a sweet boy, I can't believe he is four already. It's amazing to think about how fragile his life was when he was born, and to look at him now so healthy and enjoying life! What a miracle, we sure love you Caden!!


Sunday, June 6, 2010

Baseball Hall of Fame

So, Taylor made it through his first semester! He did really well, got good grades, and I'm really proud of him. He had about 2 weeks off before his next semester started, so we decided to take a family vacation and see some places that we've always wanted to see. We were really excited to have some fun family time. We started with Cooperstown, New York where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. Taylor was WAY excited for this place, he's always dreamed of going there and we live only 4 hours away.


This is the drive there, I just wanted to show how green and foresty (is that a word?) it is out here.


This is right in front of the Hall of Fame.


This is kind of random, but it's called the "holy cow". Caden really wanted me to take a picture of it.


Taylor had fun showing Caden everything. The kids did suprisingly well through it all, I even enjoyed it!! It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, and I really don't know anything about baseball:)


I'm probably not going to do the description of these pictures justice, but these are the Chicago Cubs' (Taylor's favorite baseball team) original jersey and glove.


This one is great. It's the 756th ball Bary Bonds hit, to break Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record. The story behind the asterisk is that the kid that caught the ball sold it to a sports collector who then held an online auction asking what he should do with the ball. Fans could vote for him to either keep the ball for his own collection, send the ball to the hall of fame in its original state, or mark the ball with an asterisk (Barry Bonds is accused of using steroids and many fans don't think he deserves to own the homerun record) and then send it to the hall of fame. Well as you can see the asterisk won out, and so here it is proudly displayed for all to see.


This is the locker dedicated to the Cubs. Taylor really wanted to get pictures of it. The uniform is Greg Maddox's (according to Taylor one of the best pitchers to ever play) and the locker is full of various memorabilia that apparently means something to Taylor:-)