Monday, June 27, 2011

Chicago Trip Part I - Legoland


I've been wanting to blog about our AMAZING trip to Chicago for weeks, but I've been waiting to get pictures from my Dad. My sisters family was there visiting, so he was a little busy the past couple of weeks. I got them the other day, but now I have to sort through 800+ pictures! There were so many things I loved about Chicago, so I decided to break them up into multiple posts. It will probably take me until Christmas to finish!

The boys were so excited to fly on a big plane to go see Gma and Gpa!


We arrived in Chicago VERY late at night due to delayed flights from all of the tornados going on in the Midwest. My Dad has a video of the boys running down the terminal at the airport that I want to post, but I can't get it to work. Hopefully I will be able to post it later! Day one of our trip included packing up the rental car and heading out to Nauvoo. About a 5 hour drive from Chicago. But first we made a stop in the suburbs to meet one of my Mom's dear friends for lunch. After lunch we hit up Legoland Discovery! We thought it might be a good way to let the boys run around before being stuck in the car for hours. We had a pretty good time.


Entrance

Einstein greeted you just inside the doors. His eyes moved...it was a little freaky

The first part of the museum included a Lego model of Chicago. It was pretty impressive!

This isn't even all of it. It continued around the corner.

The famous Navy Pier

Then you entered the Jungle...



Sister and Elder Beck with Indiana Jones!


They had big Legos...


and small Legos...

{This is one of my favorite pics of the whole trip!}



they even had a ride...
Loved the bathroom sign!




Next up...Nauvoo

Thursday, June 16, 2011

T-ball 2011

I am trying to get caught up on blogging, but it hasn't been very easy. I've about had it with Blogger and how long it takes to upload pictures/videos. I really want to blog about our trip to Chicago too, so let's hope it doesn't take the rest of the year!

The boys played Spring T-ball this year and lucky for us they were able to play on the same team. Beckett barely made the cut off to play and Wesley barely missed the cut off to play in the older age group. It was so fun to watch them play together! Wesley has improved over the last year and would usually make a great hit off of the first pitch every time. Beckett was the littlest (and cutest) one on the team. He's our little lefty and surprised us with how well he hit. He would usually get a hit off the coach and would rarely need to hit it off the tee. We had a fun coach and team this year and I'm grateful the boys enjoyed playing as much as we did watching.

Here are some pictures from the season. I totally slacked and only brought my camera once. Most of the pictures I did take were with my phone, so the quality stinks.


Awesome action shot of Wes. I really wish we had a better camera!

Beckett has the cutest little run




Here is the whole Black team at Closing Ceremonies with their trophies


Classic Beckett face!

I'm hoping the videos below show up. They are being funky. The one time I brought our camera, I tried videoing the boys hitting. Well come to find out, our camera doesn't like to video anymore and it turns out completely blurry. I had taken quite a few videos with my phone, but unfortunately my phone crashed mid-season and I lost all of my videos. I made sure to at least video them one last time and got great videos of both of them. Then Beckett decided to erase the only good one I had of him hitting :(. The two videos below are the best I could find. The blurry sideways one was taken on our crappy camera.


I truly hope the boys continue to love playing sports and staying active!