So, I am a little behind on blogging, which is funny to say since I am not very consistent anyways. However I have a lot of stuff to catch up on. On July 19th was Mary Kate's 4th birthday. I made cupcakes for her sunday school class and we spent the afternoon with some good friends of ours who live near Burleson in Fort Worth. Other than that, we held off on too much celebration until this past Saturday when we had a big party for her with a bunch of her friends. That Sunday night however, Mike's sister Liz flew in from Boston with her husband Paul. We haven't seen them in almost 2 years. It was great to see them. It was very different from when Mike's parents come to visit. When his parents come we usually spend more time hanging out around the house so they can soak up the babies. It was actually really nice with Liz and Paul because they wanted to go see things in the area. We normally aren't as motivated to go sightseeing and check out stuff in the area just because we are so busy with work and school and church and kids and etc. Anyways, it was ALOT of fun. On Monday we went and took a tour of the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. Oh My Goodness! 
It is amazing! Huge! Everything is the biggest (fill in the blank). Biggest tvs in the world, biggest covered building in the world, biggest beer cooler in the world, biggest arches in the world, I am sure there is more, but I can't remember. IT was neat though. I guess for 1.4 billion dollars I could build a pretty neat building too!
So, that night we had dinner at Tom's diner in Arlington. It is a great little diner on the corner of Cooper street and I-30. Mike found it and we love it. On mondays, kids eat free which is even more enticing. That night we took the girls to the Rangers-Red Sox game.
It was Bria's first Red Sox game and first game ever, and it was my first game in 4 or 5 years that I wasn't pregnant for! Needless to say, I enjoyed it more than others. The Red Sox lost despite Bria's rally cap in the 8th and 9th! Mary Kate passed out and never made it past the 7th inning. It was a lot of fun! On Tuesday we went to see the stockyards downtown and treated Liz and Paul to BBQ at Risky's at the Stockyards.
It was amazing as usual. And MK enjoyed showing off the cows to Aunt Liz and Uncle Paul.
I also tried dublin Dr. Pepper for the first time and fell in love. That night we got a babysitter for the girls and we took Liz and Paul to the Red Sox again only this time we bought tickets ahead of time. They were GREAT seats-in between center and left field, right next to the Red Sox bullpen, front row. 
We were literally 10-15 feet away from Manny Del Carmen! I talked to him. And he let me get a picture of him!!!!
Alas the Red Sox lost again and we were sad, but we had a great time and they really were UNBELIEVABLE seats! On Wednesday we headed back out to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington only this time it was for a stadium tour and to see the museum and children's learning center. 
It was a lot of fun. The museum there has the largest collection of baseball memorabilia outside of Cooperstown. It was cool to see. 
And, the children's section was awesome. MK loved it! Very interactive and educational and fun!
Liz and Paul went to the game that night with some other friends that they wanted to catch up with and so we had a night off. Thursday was their last day here and we just hung out together. MK really loved playing softball and freeze tag with them. It was a really nice visit and even though we stayed busy it was nice to be together and for Mike not to have to work. He was able to take mon-thurs off. I will blog later about MK's party and having my sisters up for it!
It is amazing! Huge! Everything is the biggest (fill in the blank). Biggest tvs in the world, biggest covered building in the world, biggest beer cooler in the world, biggest arches in the world, I am sure there is more, but I can't remember. IT was neat though. I guess for 1.4 billion dollars I could build a pretty neat building too!
So, that night we had dinner at Tom's diner in Arlington. It is a great little diner on the corner of Cooper street and I-30. Mike found it and we love it. On mondays, kids eat free which is even more enticing. That night we took the girls to the Rangers-Red Sox game.
It was Bria's first Red Sox game and first game ever, and it was my first game in 4 or 5 years that I wasn't pregnant for! Needless to say, I enjoyed it more than others. The Red Sox lost despite Bria's rally cap in the 8th and 9th! Mary Kate passed out and never made it past the 7th inning. It was a lot of fun! On Tuesday we went to see the stockyards downtown and treated Liz and Paul to BBQ at Risky's at the Stockyards.
It was amazing as usual. And MK enjoyed showing off the cows to Aunt Liz and Uncle Paul.
I also tried dublin Dr. Pepper for the first time and fell in love. That night we got a babysitter for the girls and we took Liz and Paul to the Red Sox again only this time we bought tickets ahead of time. They were GREAT seats-in between center and left field, right next to the Red Sox bullpen, front row. 
We were literally 10-15 feet away from Manny Del Carmen! I talked to him. And he let me get a picture of him!!!!
Alas the Red Sox lost again and we were sad, but we had a great time and they really were UNBELIEVABLE seats! On Wednesday we headed back out to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington only this time it was for a stadium tour and to see the museum and children's learning center. 
It was a lot of fun. The museum there has the largest collection of baseball memorabilia outside of Cooperstown. It was cool to see. 
And, the children's section was awesome. MK loved it! Very interactive and educational and fun!
Liz and Paul went to the game that night with some other friends that they wanted to catch up with and so we had a night off. Thursday was their last day here and we just hung out together. MK really loved playing softball and freeze tag with them. It was a really nice visit and even though we stayed busy it was nice to be together and for Mike not to have to work. He was able to take mon-thurs off. I will blog later about MK's party and having my sisters up for it! 
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