Friday night a friend of ours was going to sing the National Anthem at the Joplin Outlaws baseball game so we loaded up and headed over to support her and watch a baseball game.
We got there a bit early while they were still warming up. There was a foul ball that came our direction. Our friend De picked it up and tried to give it to CL but he didn’t want it so I said to try giving it to Abug… she wouldn’t play with it either. Weird kids… lol :).
Finally baby squirrel claimed the ball and played with it for a bit.
I sooooo have to do this post just for my friends that are Seattle Seachicken Seahawk Fans :). You will be interested to know there are Seahawk fans in the greater KC area that came to the game so yey :).
I also think that we all have a screw loose for going to this game in 20 degree weather… what were we thinking? Oh wait, we were thinking FUN! (I’m not a cold weather person… lol). You will notice this is the temperature we experienced at 1:35pm… I’m not sure I want to know what it was at 6:30am when we got up. Don’t worry, baby girl stayed home in the warm house with grandma and grandpa! She was the smart one… lol :).
We got up Sunday morning and got dressed. While I was getting dressed I stuck my hand in my pocket because there was a lump and I found one of baby girls socks. ha!
This was a noon game so tailgating started around 8am. Our food for this game was Ham and Potato Soup and Chili. At least it was warm food 🙂
We put a pot of water on the heater to warm water for hot chocolate. It’s Deb’s special mix… btw, she wasn’t with us. She chose to stay home. Probably smart! Hey I couldn’t feel my feet most of the day. We put those hand warmer things that are made for feet on our feet around 10:30am and mine finally started working once we were in the truck headed home around Lamar (which is like 2 hrs from KC or something like that…)
mmmmm Ham and potato soup. (Recipe coming soon!)
I love Nancy’s boots. Aren’t they cute?
The night before Dan and hubby went to Academy and got me this hat. I’m soooooooooooo glad they did because even though my head was cool, it could have been soooooooo much worse!
Tbug got to go to this game with us. We asked her after the game if she was glad she went or if she’d have rather stayed home… she assured us she was glad she got to go.
KC really missed the snow that was predicted but we still had a small amount on our seats anyway. I sat in it, but not with my jeans… nope… we sat in sleeping bags to help with heat. Hubby used blankets and decided that sleeping bags were the way to go. (Tbug and I had the sleeping bags). Yeah you’re standing on the concrete in sleeping bags so don’t use good ones, we got these for $9. But you aren’t constantly having to readjust your blankets around you from all the up and down.
This was the Chiefs Veterans Day game. This flag was friggin awesome! The Marine Corp choir sang the National Anthem. The arrowhead flag was replaced with this one, but that’s okay!
She swears she’s glad she went but she looked like she was ready for -40˚ weather. She said the only thing cold on her was her nose/face and her toes. Not to bad huh?
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It apparently snowed back home on Sunday. We drove home with clear roads and hit the snow around Nevada. We got somewhere around 3″.
And the game…. OH goodness the game was an edge of your seat game which really are the best. KC won 24-20 over the Seahawks.
Oh Kansas City Chiefs you did not disappoint again this weekend! Such a great game. And the best part was this was Tbug’s first stadium game so she got to see a win! Score!!
Thank God for a happy morning baby because this momma bear isn’t so happy in the morning, but baby girl smiles and I break into a smile too. She was sporting her KC Chiefs stuff and was ready for the game.
Earl, Moo and TB went to the game as well so we all rode up together in Earl’s Pathfinder. Hey it seats 7 and we had all 7 seats full :). Earl had balloons in her car for some reason. Hubby and the kids were picking on poor Baby girl and me rubbing them and sticking them in our hair.
Eventually 2 of the balloons wound up on the dash and pretty much rode the whole trip there. It was so great on the drive up passing people and seeing all the Chiefs jerseys and sweatshirts and stuff on the cars. We had to sport too, although we were all dressed in our Chiefs get up!
Normally we tailgate but because of the Chili cook-off the night before, we chose to meet up at 6:30 and drive up the morning of the game (it was a noon game) and eat dinner in Peculiar, MO at the Flying J Denney’s.
From there we got separated because we had to make a quick trip to Walmart. Dan told us to park in Lot 6 (I think…) and we wound up in the wrong parking lot and walked all the way to the stadium from BFE, seriously. I felt like I was running because I was carrying baby girl and trying to keep up with everyone. whew! I got my work-out! We finally met up with everyone in our normal tailgating spot.
Last year when hubby and I went to our first game they had a huge get up set up in front of the stadium so we took Tbug over to see if all that was set up, sadly, it was not. So we went into the Pro Store. Holy Cow, don’t go in there at 1 hour to kick-off, it’s a mad house. So we went ahead and went on up to our seats.
This little one didn’t sleep through the whole game this time. She played with daddy 1st quarter, watched the game from my lap second quarter, ate during 3rd quarter and halfway through 3rd went to sleep and slept through 4th. We’re making progress.
Now we didn’t realize how far we parked away from the stadium until we decided to walk back to the car afterwards. Luckily the golf cart came to our rescue and drove us to the car. Wow, we were way out there!
Baby girl’s first golf cart ride.
She says she enjoyed the game. The final score, 24 Chiefs 10 Jets. Go Chiefs!
On the way home, we stopped in Harrisonville to feed all of us. We chose Pizza Hut. They never claimed it but I think they forgot to make our pizza and then they made the wrong one. Woops. Oh well we finally got our Chicken Bacon Ranch (Tbug picked it) and it was awesome!
With the time change it was a lovely night drive home. It was only like 6:30 in this picture.
This last Sunday hubby, baby girl and I were able to attend the Kansas City Chiefs game versus the St. Louis Rams. OMG what a game! Definitely worth going to that’s for sure… not just because the Chiefs won, #winner but it was one heck of a game!
So the game started at noon which meant we had to be there in time for the gates to open, duh :). Tailgating is a big thing, however I want to state that we’re not drinkers so if you want to see drunk pictures you’re not at the right blog for that. Gates started opening either at 7:30 or 8am… I can’t remember as I was up at 4am trying to get around so we’d be ready to catch our ride. To say I was tired would be a bit of an understatement but it’s all good!
We went with Breakfast Burritos for the tailgating food. We had Bacon, Sausage, Plain eggs, Eggs with onions and green chilies, Black Olives, Salsa, Cheese, Tortillas, and Blueberry Muffins! Holy yum!
Now as you know the KC Royals are fighting for the World Series title currently (tonight is the last game, Go Royals!).
If you knew me, you’d know I HATE pushing carts with a passion. I have no idea what my deal is against them but… I guess because I don’t like to push them, I kind of suck at pushing them. Let me explain…
Saturday hubby and I had plans to go to Kansas City to a Chiefs preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings (which they lost big time… no hard feelings… maybe). We were going up with a group that we dive with and they wanted to go up early to tailgate. We were told to bring chips and condiments so Saturday morning we woke up and went to Walmart to pick out chips and get some water and cherry coke/orange sodas (yeah we party hard!).
We picked up our purchases and went to the cash register to pay and then leave. Well we had baby girls carseat sitting where the babies/kids sit. I got behind the cart to push it out the doors and head to the truck and lets say I misjudged the distance and ran the cart right into the door. If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, it jacked it open. Seriously? Hubby hasn’t let me live that down since… oy!
So anyway I’ll leave you with that thought and these photos from the Chiefs Game. Enjoy!
We got this type and the Ginger Wasabi. I wanted to try the Bacon Mac & Cheese but they were all sold out. I’m not sure about the Cappuccino… have you tried any of them? Thoughts?
Holy cow, can you believe what a year will do? Check this out… baby girl was here a year ago, no one but hubby and I knew though!
We have to protect her ears! She slept through the whole game except when she was hungry.
and one last story… I went to change her at the end of the game for our ride home. I went to go into the family restroom and walked in on a lady. If that was you, I’m sooooo sorry! I was really on my game Saturday!
If you watch football any at all, you’ll know the last few years haven’t really been good for the Kansas City Chiefs. In fact they were 2-14 last year and this year they made the playoffs. Hubby and I were invited to some friend’s house to watch the playoffs, KC Chiefs against the Indianapolis Colts.
Don’t worry there is only Coke in my Red Solo Cup :).
There was lots and lots of great food! I made Pepperoni Rolls. Dani got back from Germany and brought French and German Chocolate. There was salsa, chips, salami, pepperoni, cheese, crackers, cinnamon rolls, and oh goodness much more.
The game may not have turned out the way we wanted, they lost to the Colts by 1 point, 44-45. We still had a lot of fun with friends while yelling at the tv. At one point Deb was grounded to the kitchen to eat because every time she went in there they did good. I got grounded to the bathroom at the end because same thing, they did good when I left. One TV kept blacking out so at halftime 2 went into the bedroom to watch so we blamed it all on them. It was a great evening is all I have to say!
When someone asks, Do you like sports? I kind of have an odd answer to that. Sure I like sports if I’m right there watching, but I can’t stand to watch it on TV. I think at home on tv there are too many distractions, but if you are there and in the game, yup, I’m all over that!
Last Friday night we got the chance to go to a Springfield Cardinals Minor League baseball game! They were playing the Tulsa Drillers. PC’s department (we work for the same company) had a group going and we tagged along. He’d never been to a Springfield Cardinals game, only a Kansas City Royals game and Tbug said she’d never been to a baseball game. This was my 3rd Springfield Cardinals game and I’ve also seen the St. Louis Cardinals play before.
Tbug saying she’d never been to a game before was a little lost so I explained the general rules when it came to baseball. You know, an overview 🙂
Normally she wears glasses, but every time I’ve been to a game we’ve been stuck in the sun until the game is almost over so we let her wear her sunglasses in instead. Plus we made sure she had on sunscreen, just in case. Well this time we lucked out and we were in the shade the whole time.
I really think they swapped out between 3 pitchers. One was better than the others, but shhh don’t tell them I said that :).
I wish I’d have taken my big camera, but the battery was dying on it, so I was going to take my point and shoot and same thing. Gah, you think I’d charge batteries every once in a while! So I took my new toy, which is only 5megapixels but it still worked. Although the zoom isn’t everything I’d hope for…
Here the Springfield Cardinal (right) was having a dance off between the kids (left.
The kids won.
Here is their crest. Very similar to the St. Louis Cardinals. That’s why a lot of fans wear their St. Louis gear.
It’s hard to see but the ball that was just pitched was going 89mph. Dang! Some of them were down in the 70’s but one of the pitchers actually was pretty consistently pitching in the 90 range.
They wound up winning the game. The Drillers didn’t score until the 5th inning. I think if I remember right the final score was 7-5, but I may be wrong there….
At the end of every Friday night game for the rest of the season AM Pyro sponsors a fireworks display. It was pretty wicked!!!
