Take me out to the ball game...or two!

This past Thursday (April 10th) was my darling husband's 30th Birthday. I decided to whisk him away on a Mini Manly Birthday Vacation to DFW. (By manly, I mean, doing manly things...not girly things like spa treatments or Celine Dion concerts)
So we got up on Thursday morning, picked up our favorite car trip buddies (Isaiah & Amanda) and hit the road to the Texas Rangers Ballpark.
The game for the night before got rained out, so our tickets turned out to be good for 2 games that day! (one at 4:00 and one at 7:30) Yes. We stayed for both games. The whole thing. Both games. Like I said, Manly Vacation.

It was SUPER fun though! Here are a few highlights of the games.
1) It just happened to be $1.00 Hot Dog night, so we probably scarfed down 27 hot dogs between the four of us! :)
2) We all got new Rangers T-Shirts
3) The first game was pretty empty so we ended up sitting 15 rows behind 1st base. (SUWEEET!)
4) I got Josh Hamilton's autograph (he actually asked me if I wanted to come hang out in the dugout, but I told him no...)
5) I learned the art on how to correctly eat sunflower seeds...
6) The Rangers won both games

and the highlight of the entire game:
7) We got to see a streaker. Yes...it was hilarious...and yes we cheered him on. He actually make it all the way from 1st base side to the end of center field before he slid on his knees with his arms in the air and let the security dudes take him out. It was great.

So after 8 straight hours of baseball, we headed over to our hotel in Downtown Dallas. We stayed at the Shereton on the 29th floor. Amazing view.

Friday, we SLEPT IN!!! And then headed over to a nearby mall and shopped till we dropped. Thomas, Isaiah & Amanda all got Chinese Acupressure Massages. (I declined....because something about the way they were slapping people on their back and twisting their arms around their face, looked quite uncomforable. ) They all loved it though...

The last activity of our Manly Vacation was stopping back in Arlington at a Movie Theater where you can order meals while you are sitting at the movie. We had pizza. Yum. What a great concept! A restaurant and a movie at the same time. It was fun. Oh yes, and we watched the very manly blackjack movie called 21. (It was pretty good...a couple of typical Vegas scenes...but other than that, we really enjoyed it!)

THEN....we headed home and got back around 10:00pm.

Baseball. $1 Hot dogs. Sunflower Seeds. Streaker. Classy hotel. Shopping. Guy movie. Food. And numerous hours in our car with some fun friends.
It was a good trip.

Pretty Flowers!

Today we decided to add a little splash of color to our front yard!!



It was so much fun....I never knew how much I enjoyed planting flowers.