Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

Northern Cal is definitely into baseball, and we're working on becoming fans. Brady's work was able to hook us up with box seats at the Giant's game last week, but other than food and good company, it was a bit of a disappointing game. It was fun being at the Giant's stadium, though!

These are two of the guys Brady works with, and their wives. We all piled into one car to save on parking at the stadium. It was squishy, but entertaining.

Friday night, our ward went to the A's game, with 85 of us in the group. The kids in our ward were hilarious, popping out some hip-hop to the music in between innings, and running up and down the stairs. I'm not sure any of them actually watched the game, but they sure had fun eating their Cracker Jacks.

As you can tell by our apparel, we are quickly becoming A's fans.

We were a little late getting to the game because of work. We were both uptight, pulling in during the 4th inning, but that ended up playing to our advantage. We still saw 8 innings (as well as 4 homeruns), and most importantly, the last play of the 12th inning--Mark Skootero's base hit that drove in the man on third. Afterwards, we all went to the field to watch the best fireworks we've ever seen. (And you'd think that out of 6 pics, we'd have something better than these fireworks...but I'm a firm believer in experiencing the event, and not just getting great pictures.)

Our New Toy

We decided Labor Day was as good a day as any to bleed money, so we went out and bought ourself another piece of furniture for our one-bedroom apartment.

We always said we weren't the kind of pianists who would resort to a keyboard, but what choice do you have when you live three stories up???

And if you ever want to invite us to your child's birthday, you may or may not get a present this spectacular. (Cory and Kristen around gave us props for this, but this pic is just higher-quality. haha)