Mudcats game

The Carolina Mudcats are a local minor-league baseball team (affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds). We got a great deal on some tickets and took the whole family, plus our friends Brandon and Emily, over to nearby Zebulon, NC to catch one of the last games of the season.

Here's how you know you are getting close to the stadium...

The kids thought this was so cool. A giant baseball up in the sky!

MUDCATS!!!!!

They do all kinds of fun little things during the inning breaks, like having two teams of three kids each (boys vs. girls) pile into a GIANT pair of whitey-tightys and race.

The girls won, by the way ; )

Or having two teams dress up as hamburger buns and race to put all the parts of the 'hamburger' together first. (Funny to think that our friends George and Catherine got chosen to do this one time when they came to a game! Would've LOVED to see that!!)

This last ditch effort by the team at the bottom of the picture cracked me up...He is literally airborne in the picture! I sure would hate to be the bottom bun on this team!!

And this was all Hudson has talked about since. He's been saying "you remember those hamburgers last night? it was SO 'larious" followed by an emphatic nod and big smile. ('larious is his way of saying hilarious, which is hilarious to me)

Our friends, Brandon and Emily, soon to be newlyweds! 4 weeks to go until their wedding. Josh and I have had the privilege of doing their pre-marital counseling, and Josh will be officiating their wedding in Vero Beach, FL next month! Exciting times : )