The family M, in the booth.
Julia in the broadcast booth, wearing their actual headset. She took the role quite seriously, as usual.
Jules loves her some baseball. She stood for almost the entire game, bouncing up and down and making her scrunched nosed face of delight.
Luke and Julia, on a cloudless night, getting MLB baseballs while standing on the field during batting practice. Who could ask for anything more?
Watching batting practice from the Phillies on deck circle.
Sitting directly behind home plate.
The whole family. The stair step height set up thing is 100% accidental, and made me laugh when I looked closely at it.
What a night. We went to the Phillies game to celebrate my Dad's birthday. It was planned months ago, and was a night out that was offered as a fund raiser for my high school. We decided to treat Mom Mom and Pop Pop to a game, bring the kids, and have a great night at the ballpark. Due to a long story that involves luck, good friends, and good timing, we ended up last minute moving from our mediocre seats into VIP seats and a tour of the field, the broadcast booths and front row seats right at first base. Giant thank you's to the family friend who made this possible.
It was a perfect, cloudless night. The kids were fabulous. To see my 2 and 1 year old standing on the field at Citizens Bank Park being handed balls from major league managers was a treat that I never thought that I would experience. To see Jules sitting in the actual broadcast booth with the headset on her head and the city skyline and the ballpark at her back was surreal. To be able to celebrate in such style with my parents, husband and kids ~ beyond belief. We got to meet the entire broadcast team, and got to say hello in passing to the Phillies hottest two prospects Michael Taylor and Kyle Drabek right before they received the Paul Owens Award, given to the teams minor league players of the year. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Last night, thanks to a friend, we won. Last night, the Phillies did too, as Cliff Lee pitched his way to a shutout. Go Phills.
Happy birthday to Pop Pop (whose actual birthday is tomorrow) and Grandpop, whose actual birthday was yesterday. We love you both so much!
Wow...what an incredible experience! Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteHow awesome! Looks like a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed at how well your kids behaved. The only time we took Julian to a soccer game, we had to leave half way through because he was really upset that he couldn't go on the field and play, and kept rushing down the stairs toward the pitch.
happy birthday mr d!... melis, can you rub some of your good luck off on me?
ReplyDeletejen
(NOT that i want to see the twins up close)