Photo day!

Baseball, Family and Sunshine - it doesn't get much better than that!

Sunday we had the opportunity to go onto the field at the Great American Ball Park and take photos with the Reds players and coaches.  We were all pretty excited to go and check out this event.  Little did we know we would be down there with 2000 of our closest friends, last year we heard there was maybe 150 people who showed up!  Guess that is what a winning season will do - bring out the fans the during the next season.

This is by no means nearly all of the photos that were taken - we have go get those from Papaw Frank, LT and me - but it is a little bit of our continued wonderful weekend that we shared with our family.   Thank goodness Papaw Chris was on top of it to get these downloaded off his new camera for us!



Caden waiting for Scott Rolen!

Maggie with Gapper



Mallory and Memaw Donna with Mr Redlegs

My buddy!

Mr. Redlegs entertaining the crowd

Mallory has her ticket and is ready to go!

Catching a ride

and my favorite from the day!  A little ball player in the making

 It was a beautiful day to spend it at the ballpark even if the Reds didn't win.  Going to the games is something we love to do and will continue to do as a family no matter how hard it is to get 4 kids to the game, sit down and go to the potty at least 3 times during the game.  I grew up listening to the Reds on the radio with Grandma and Grandpa Horstman and there are just so many good memories of the ball games. 

I can only hope that the memories we are creating with our kids and baseball will give them a lifetime of smiles as they think back to being there with us and their grandparents. 

And for those that think we are crazy to take all 4 kids to the games all I can say is look at these faces and the smiles - that is why we do it!