Father's Day 2007

Father's Day was beautiful weather!
We went to Uncle Garry's and Aunt


Julie's to have a cook out and celebrate Great Grandma's 80th Birthday! The kids had a great time catching fish (AND FROGS!) Alyssa and Elyot caught some fish and put them in Aunt Julie's little pond that she has on her porch-One of the Blue gills kept jumping out! Elyot thought that was AWESOME! Later he tried to catch them in the little pond by hand! What a boy!


Alyssa had a great time on the 4-wheeler. She even got to drive it a little. The making of a SPEED DEMON? They are growing up too fast!

Chicago Cubs Game

Yes we went to Chicago again. It seems we have been going there a lot lately. This time we went to the Chicago Cubs game. Not my choice to go, I love the White Sox, but we couldn't pass up a chance of a game. Plus they were playing the Atlanta Braves which just happens to be Greg's favorite team! He was very excited.

So Greg, Doug, Jennifer, Mike and I took the train into Chicago very early in the morning. We hopped on the "L", again everyone should ride this, and took it to the Addison stop. We met Christy at her apartment which happens to be a couple blocks away from Wrigley Field.

It was great to be so close. We walked up to the game and found our seats in the bleachers. We were right under the scoreboard which is the only scoreboard that is still kept by hand and not electronically.

Wrigley Field is a very old staduim. The bleachers were concrete and very steep. Not ideal if you were going to drink a lot! Which we of coarse did not do!

It really was a great game. Lots of action. I got to see my first GRAND SLAM home run! Couldn't tell you who hit it, but it was AWESOME! Greg wasn't too happy his Braves were losing. He got a lot of looks from people for wearing a Braves jersey and Ohio State hat. Cubs won 10-1. The town was going crazy! There is an awlful lot of bars around the stadium too. Everyone was celebrating. Lots of young college-age kids pretty much. You can really tell the difference between the Cubs fans and the Sox fans. Its like 2 different worlds!Sox are still my favorite.

Well the rain held off until we went to get to the train. We all got soaked and decided to cram into a cab back to Union Station. Holy cow taxi drivers are insane. I think they are NASCASR rejects! We could have died at least 3 times. But we made our train!

It was a very long day but it was fun. Loved spending it with the family!