Thursday, May 21

This was a big day! It was my last day of school before summer break and also my baby shower at work. Not to mention we had also gotten Cardinal tickets in the Bank of America club for our anniversay later in the evening. So the last day of school went great...the kids were only there for an hour, and my shower was after that, at 10:15. It was SO NICE! Dana and Mom were able to be there and most of the staff was able to stay. It was decorated so cute and we had yummy whipped cream icing cake and delicious sherbet punch! I had so much fun and Sawyer got so many nice things! I couldn't wait to get everything home and organized!

This was game 3 against the Cubs and we had already won 2...we were looking for a sweep! The game start time was 7:15, but we wanted to get there early because we had a dinner buffet and we just wanted to check things out. The food was good, but unfortunately our seats were not. We had seats 1 & 2 on the "drink rail" which meant they were taller chair type things with a narrow counter. Everyone else was sitting in cushy stadium seats! And I had a huge I-beam right next to me which I couldn't see around without leaning wayyy forward. Well, the usherette is making small talk with us about where we are from and such, so I ask her if anyone else had ever complained about these seats and she assured me I wasn't the first. She went upstairs to see what she could do and then came back to get us. Mind you, I did pull the pregnancy card and tell her that I was 6 months pregnant and couldn't sit in those chairs for 3 hours. She took us up to an open section with a few padded folding chairs and we were right by the doors to the Club, which was nice.

Right after the game began JACK CLARK came and sat RIGHT NEXT TO ME! How cool! Of course I waited a few innings before bugging him for his autograph. During this time was Pujols' first at-bat and he smacked a homerun right into the "i" in Big Mac Land! Again, how cool! So I eventually bug Jack for is autograph, and then he is my best friend and we chatted throughout the game, when he wasn't bombarded by fans. He is a really cool guy! We had a great night and it was an awesome way to spend our 1st anniversay! Oh, and we swept the Cubbies!