Halloween 2009

Lucy had a lot of fun this October with Halloween. We did a lot of fun things and got plenty of candy.

We made it out to Firghtmares at Lagoon for one last time this year, we went on a night when Aunt Alison was working so we could see her to. Lucy had a great time riding rides, going to the kids spook alley and watching the "Monster Mash" show. She even got to have her picture taken with the cast which she thought was great. Funny story about this. Lucy and I were standing there watching the show when one of my supervisors spotted me and came up to me and started talking with us. He asked how I liked the show and I made some joke about wanting Catwomans number. He then went up to her and the rest of the female cast asked them if they were interested in going out with me. They were all under 20 so a little young for me, but I was thoroughly embarrassed by the whole thing.






Lucy did pumpkin carving with myself, Grandpa and Aunt Alison





Of course we also went Trick-or-Treating. Lucy went as a skeleton. We stayed out in the neighborhood for over an hour. Her bucket got to heavy for her to carry so she had me carry it. This idea that the whole neighborhood is handing out candy was wonderful to her, I like it to since I go through I pick out what I want from her stash. She liked it so much she asked the next night if we could go Trick-or-Treating

Baseball 2009

Well its the end of October which also means we are nearing the end of the baseball season. It was a pretty good season for me, the Cardinals won the National League Central Division, but then went and got swept in the first round by the dodgers, disappointing? Yes, but it could be worse, I could be fan of the Nationals.

What really made this season great was that I went to four games in three different cities and got to see St. Louis play twice. I didn't take Lucy to any of these games, I don't know that she's ready to go to a baseball game yet, mostly because I think she would get bored fast and I would end up entertaining her most the game instead of watching it. I did however get her shirts from the games. So here she is showing off her MLB pride.


The Kansas City Royals


The San Diego Padres


The Colorado Rockies


The Saint Louis Cardinals


I am also picking the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series in six games. I like to root for the National League, unless it's the cubs, but that shouldn't be a problem they haven't won a World Series title in over 100 years.

Wyoming

Lucy and I went up to Wyoming last weekend for my cousin Sadie's mission farewell. She's going to the same mission I did, Columbia, SC. What are the odds two people from the same family would go to the same mission, of course I was there about 10 years ago but how much could have changed in that time.

I think Lucy enjoyed this trip more than any other we've been on in the last 2 months. There was dirt, sticks, dogs, rivers everything a two year old could ask for. My cousin Abby was even nice enough to take Lucy on a long horse ride around the coral, not sure exactly how many laps they made. She even went out and lent a hand putting fence posts in.

We had a great time up there and it was really good to see my cousins, aunts and uncles again.

Denver

We went to Denver CO last weekend to visit my Aunts family. My Dad, Lucy and my self traveled out across the open frontier. We had a good time and did a lot of fun things, baseball games, golf, eagle court of honors and museum's to name a few.

We took Lucy to the living faram in Littleton. Lucy saw all kinds of barn yard animals and other farm stuff.

Here's Lucy playing in the farm kitchen.



My Aunt Nancy, Lucy and I with the sheep.


And us with the pig, probably Lucy's favorite animal there.


She got to climb on some of the farm equipment.





I spoke at my cousin Tolans eagle court of honor. Which was the other reason for going to Denver, not just that the Cardinals were in town to play the Rockies.




My Dad and my cousin Tolan out side the stadium


A view of Coors field from our seats


Tolan and I in the stands. Our seats were way up at the top, but it was still a good game.



Albert Pujols, reigning MVP at the bat




My Dad and I


The Cardinals clinched the NL Central Division that night, it was great, I was so excited to be there for it, maybe not as excited as the St. Louis players were but pretty close.

San Diego

I've been under some pressure the past week from friends and family to put some thing up about our trip, so here it is. I've put it into several different posts instead of one huge one. Maybe that makes for easier reading.


We had a great time, we went to the San Diego Zoo & Wild Animal Park, Sea World, a Padres Baseball game and the Maritime Museum. We also ate seafood three out of four nights since our hotel was right across from one of the major harbors, the fourth night was hot dogs, soda, pop corn and peanuts at the ball game. I hope you all enjoy the photos.

Wild Animal Park

The Wild Animal Park was fun, but hot. It's farther in land then the rest of the stuff we did so you loose that nice ocean breeze.




The shows were fun for our family. My Dad and Alison got to go on stage for a couple of them and Lucy got close to a few animals which was thrilling for her.





Lucy found a way to beat the heat in this kids play area where they spray water.


The petting area was a big hit with her. They had these dear from Africa that she got to feed and pet.



The carousel was so much fun she had to go twice in a row with out getting off.
Even then she still wanted to ride it more.

Zoo

The world famous San Diego Zoo was a lot like the Wild Animal Park only a little more up close. We saw all kinds of animals like zebras,giraffes and tigers.



You probably can't tell but there's a panda bear in this tree behind us. Had to go see this since you can only see them here and in DC. They were like a lot of the other animals, asleep and boring.


Even more exciting than real animals are statues of animals you can climb on.



The petting area was still popular for Lucy as was the "Skyfarie".

Padres

My Dad, Alison and my self went to a Padres game one night, they were playing the Colorado Rockies. It was 9/11 so they did a lot of cool things like have some of the navy officers bring out the huge flag that covers the outfield and the teams wore red hats with white and blue team logos. The Padres were winning 1-0 when Colorado scored 4 runs in the 9th inning to beat them.