Baseball No :(

Our attempt to see a Cardinal ballgame in St. Louis was not very successful because of the rain. :( We sure had fun trying, though!

Mallory enjoyed dinner with her Godfather

Isaiah and Julie - Mallory named her baby 'Julie' when we returned to Wisconsin. :)

OK - let's try it... Note the cloudy sky.

Well, we can say we were here!

And we can say that we saw Ozzie Smith and Vince Coleman!

After the ceremonial first pitch, they pulled the tarps over the field. We tried to stick it out, but nearly two hours later we were getting very strong signals from the kids that they were DONE. So back to the hotel we went. :( BUT, I can still say that I was at Busch this year! :)

- becky

St. Louis Fam and Randoms

While in St. Louis, we were able to meet some of my mom's side of the family for dinner. It's really too bad that we don't get to see them more often or spend more time together when we do have an opportunity to get together. It's always such a good time!

Uncle Neil and Aunt Shirley

Mary Beth

Aunt Steff and Uncle Neil

Isaiah and Mallory holding hands at Incredible Pizza

When shopping in the big city, be sure to leave your firearms at home.

Vacation wipes us out!

- becky

St. Louis Zoo

If you're ever in St. Louis, you should definitely visit the Saint Louis Zoo. It's FREE! (You hear that Milwaukee Zoo? You're really cool, too, but you charge a LOT.) It was a super hot day and the kids were kinda crabby, but we still enjoyed our time there.

Look at that. A cat in the tree. Amazing!

We saw a St. Louis Ram....but not the football team.

Turn around and smile, Isaiah! I suppose the penguins are a little more interesting.

- becky

Have a Six Flags Day!

The four of us visited Six Flags Mid America in Eureka, MO at the end of July. We had a Six Flags Day for sure! I have not been to this Six Flags park since I was a kid. Having grown up in Missouri, this is the park that my parents took my sister and me to. It was really cool to see how it had changed, while some things that I remembered were still around.

Daddy and Isaiah

Ride the train!

As you can tell, it was so incredibly hot that day! We all enjoyed our very own souvenir bottles with free refills all day. Each of the kids drank over 32 ounces of water, so we stayed plenty hydrated. The amusement park side was not crowded at all! Everyone was on the other side of the park in the wave pool.

Isaiah absolutely LOVED riding the airplanes in the kids' area. He insisted on riding several times.

- becky

St. Louis Style Pizza

Crossing the river

Baseball you guys!

I think this is pretty cool. It's tough to get a decent picture from the highway!

On our family vacation, I had the pleasure of introducing Isaiah and Mallory to St. Louis style pizza. yum.yum.yum. I was quite pleased that they were BIG fans of it, too. :)

Tim's sister told me about Imo's shredded provel cheese that you can buy at Schnuck's! Are.you.kidding?! Six bags of shredded cheese later, this girl returned to the Land 'o Cheese with Missouri cheese.

- becky

Kentucky Travels

July 26-27, 2010

Wow. I am really behind in my blogging.

Part of our family vacation this year was a visit to Bowling Green/Glasgow, Kentucky to visit some of my Dad's side of the family. We have way too many extended family members that we haven't seen since our wedding (6 years ago - yikes!), so we're trying to work our way around to see all of them.

First stop - visit to see Grandpa Salyer. He passed away a few months before Tim and I were married.

My parents were able to come up with my two nieces. (Mom, Shelby, and Holly unpacked from their trip to Wisconsin, only to immediately repack and get back in the car.) Monday evening, we went to Aunt Pam and Uncle Mike's house to visit with them and my two cousins, Amy and Kelly! We had such a great time...as always! Though, I haven't seen anyone who was there change their Facebook profile picture to the pictures we were taking of themselves... ;-) (Only if you were there would you understand the hilariousness of that.)

Anyway, Kelly's husband David and all of Amy and Kelly's children were there to visit, too. The kids has so much fun playing together, and we were super excited to meet the newest - sweet baby Hannah!

I guess my mom was a little boring. Hannah fell right to sleep! It was absolutely adorable!

Uncle Mike entertaining the little ones

Night, night baby!

Kelly and David

Hannah and her mommy - Amy

Oh, Dad. You're so silly.

We stopped over at my Grandma's house to see my Uncle Ken. Grandma was out of town, so we didn't get to catch up with her on this trip. We hope to get back down to Kentucky soon to see her.

I always thought I look a lot like my Aunt Pam. :)

We all stayed at the same (brand new!) Country Inn & Suites in Bowling Green. It was really nice! Each room even had a dvd player! I've NEVER seen that in a hotel before!

Family Pictures before we all went on our way:

- becky