The kids all picked something extra to do in June. Bailey finally started gymnastics! She has been begging for over a YEAR and things finally stabilized enough with the reno and move that we could sign her up! She is in HEAVEN! After a few weeks the teacher told us next month to sign her up for the 6 to 10 year old class because she can't learn anything new in the class she is in! Thank you Youtube! (She is a "gymnastics video" junky and has taught herself so many tricks with a little help from mom. She listens better to youtube than she does to me though of course!) McKenzie is taking swimming classes and is doing really well! She is a little fish! She loves it! And Braxton is eating, sleeping, and breathing baseball! I don;t know WHAT we are gong to do when the season ends!
I got spoiled big time on my birthday! We had Krispy Kremes for breakfast, went goofy golfing (the kids rode go karts for the first time too!), had sushi for lunch, then blizzards for dessert, my favorite pizza for dinner and Rich surprised me with a custom order of some of the BEST cupcakes I have EVER had in my LIFE and they were NOT JILLY'S! (I know, I know, SHOCKING... SERIOUSLY!) A friend in our ward has a cake company and Rich had her make a chocolate on chocolate on chocolate cupcake that was simply incredible! AND she gave us a tupperware filled with the leftover icing! HEAVEN! I gained fifteen pounds and made a bunch of memories! Grateful for such an amazing and FUN family to share my 33rd with! Happy Birthday to ME!!!
In June we also discovered an INCREDIBLE and MASSIVE Playground and splash pad! We are just ticked because we have lived here a year and this place is 10 minutes from our house and we had no idea!
We bought tickets to our favorite place in STL - Busch Stadium for a Cards day game for $4 , yes FOUR DOLLARS! Bummer part was it was a rainy gross day AND Rich wasn't able to get off work like he thought he could. We decided to go anyway just me and the kiddos. I haven't ever gone by myself and I was a little nervous but we are hard core, people! How hard core? THREE RAIN DELAYS LAST PITCH CREW HARD CORE! During the 6th inning and the 3rd rain delay we left ur third row from the BACK of the stadium seats and went down to the first base line! Fans were dropping like the wicked witch in a rain storm so we took advantage. Braxton looked like his brain was going to EXPLODE he was so blown away! We even got to be 20 feet from the final catch of the game by Jason Heyward. One of the coolest games and most memorable we have been to yet! We were soaking wet and loved every minute! I was SO proud of the kids for not complaining and exceeding my hard core expectations! TRUE baseball fans! The only sucky part... Rich had to miss it! He was glad we got to go but man it would have been so much more fun with him there. Next time! Great thing is "next time" was later that month!...
Rich got FREE and AMAZING tickets from work for a kick butt date night at Busch in the all-you-can-eat suites! HECK YES! Even cooler, our suite was literally right next to the Cardinal's OWNER'S suite! We almost ran straight into John Mozeliak,the GM, leaving our suite. Rich was giddy like a little school girl! This pic was our view (unzoomed!) It was a date night for the record books! I love that my husband is so much fun to hang out with. He is funner than your husband, just sayin! HAHA
So Rich and I have been trying really hard to eat healthier but sometimes you need a treat. One Friday night Rich said, "I need dessert!" We now have nothing desserty in the house because I have literally zero self control so I can't buy any or I will eat it...ALL! Our solution? McDonalds sundaes? No! Buy cookie dough? Nope! Chocolate gas station run? Nuh uh! We drove 45 minutes to a new donut shop, "Strange Donuts", and partook of strangemazingness like gooey butter cake donuts, smores donuts, maple bacon donuts, and peach pie donuts! OH MAN! Did we stop there? NeighNEIGH! We drove to our favorite custard place, Ted Drewes, and had concretes and root beer floats. We PLANNED on going home after that (It WAS 10:00 PM after all) but a few blocks away was yet another donut shop with awesome reviews on Yelp and the "HOT" sign on. We couldn't possibly NOT stop! THE best chocolate based donuts I have EVER had! They were hot "brownie" donut holes. (Can you hear Homer Simpson drooling right now? oh wait, that is me, writing this post and dreaming of these little balls of gooey sweet chocolatiness! Folks, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. WE HAVE A PROBLEM! But MAN it was a fun night! Every time Rich says he needs something sweet now the kids politely remind us how many "memories" we made on our dessert treasure hunt and shockingly suggest we give it another go! Smart kids!
Long story short... JUNE WAS FANTASTIC!!!
