College World Series 2009

These pictures are not in order. But we took Andrew's mission friend and family to the opening day of the College World Series and were watching the teams practice. Then the boys thought it would be cool to go and try catching a fly ball. So we stroll to the outfield bleachers with two kids and two babies (I'm sure people thought we were terrible mother's putting them in harms way.) Andrew and Erik both tried catching one, Erik was close once. The ball came flying right at us girls with the babies. I covered Benson's head and ducked down when Erik went flying in front of me, the ball hit his hands, but he hit a bar in front of him and someone else got the ball. Finally Andrew picked Tanner up and Tanner yelled, "27, 27... my dad can't catch me a ball, throw me one!" It worked and the guy brought over a ball he caught and handed it to Tanner. He was so excited! Both boys got balls... no one got hit, (except Erik in his hands), and everyone had a blast. It was a little scary with flying balls coming straight at us though. They hit so hard!

Andrew has been able to go to one game Texas vs. Arizona? It had 12 innings and he didn't get home until about 11:30. Texas and LSU are the last teams to play so I think Andrew is hoping to go to another game. We'll see!

Benson actually had a really good time... if you couldn't tell. We'll have to do it again next year!

Benson, Andrew, Tanner, Eric T. and son Mckoy

Mckoy and Tanner were sitting about ten rows in front of us by themselves just dancing to the music playing. It was so cute to see their little heads bobbing. I got a little video of it I will hopefully add later.
Trying to get a ball with Tanner's tiny mitt.

The boys after they each got a ball.

The family!