Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Baseball Birthday

Two weeks ago we celebrated my nephew's 2nd birthday. We all wore baseball gear, ate hot dogs, peanuts and popcorn. We even had a little baseball action!

My girl...

 Matt & Lil Ethan
 Papa showing the birthday boy how it's done.
 Running the bases 


 Cub's fans...

 Uncle Mario giving pitching lessons...

 Avery's turn.
 Love these two!


 Don't hurt yourself, Mom! haha Actually, she did really good.
 My dad showing us how it's done!









Happy Birthday Baseball Boy!!!


Business Trip~Part 2

We arrived in New Orleans and checked into our hotel. We were starving! I asked a guy at the hotel where we could get some authentic New Orleans food, he sent us to Johnny's for a po-boy. This was a first for me and it was DELISH!


This sandwich consists of fried shrimp, mayo, shredded lettuce on a fresh french roll. Oh my! Forget counting calories, but we did split it =)
We walked around the french quarter during the day. I liked all the old buildings and all the decorations for upcoming Marti Gras.










We had to try a hurricane and holy moly they are huge and don't skimp on the booze.


Good times in NOLA with my man, but boy I missed my kiddos.
We still had one more stop in San Antonio for the day. We left at the crack of dawn (almost missed our ride) and landed in the morning and got a rental car. I dropped off Matt at his customer's and drove around the city looking for something to do. I ended up at Target. I go all the way to Texas and end up at Target. Sad.
 I picked up Matt and we headed to The River Walk in downtown. We had lunch outside next to the little river and walked around. Very cool place with lots of shops and restaurants.

Overall, we had a great trip!

Business Trip~Part 1

Back in February, Matt needed to take a little (6 day) business trip and invited me to tag along! I couldn't let him go alone. haha! So thanks to wonderful Grandparents we were off to Nashville (I LOVE country music), New Orleans and San Antonio. All places that I have never been to, so I was pretty excited.

We stayed at the Opryland Hotel which was amazing. The hotel has over 2500 rooms and 16,000 employees. They were greatly affected by the Nashville floods in 2010 and had just undergone a big renovation. We loved the hotel and would definitely recommend it.


Our first night we went to Downtown Nashville...

One of the things I loved about Nashville was all of the live music. We saw some really good bands.

On Valentine's day we got massages and really relaxed outside and then went to Old Hickory Steakhouse that was in the hotel.
After dinner there was an amazing water show that went on forever.

The next day we made a trip to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Did I mention that we LOVE country music, so it was very interesting to both of us!




 Our last night in Nashville...

Goodbye Nashville, now onto NOLA =)