Spring Training 2012

Another perk of living in Tampa is Spring Training! We live less than 25 mins from Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees' Spring Training home. Now I should mention that while we are definitely NOT Yankees fans, we do try to root, root, root for the home team... unless they are playing the Cubs of course. And after all, our local high school is called Steinbrenner High.

David found us super cheap tickets last min on St. Patrick's Day. (I think it helped that the game was against the Astros.) It was 86 and beautiful. The girls did an amazing job - we stayed over 3 hrs, and they played, sang, and ate popcorn the whole time. Naomi even made friends with the old guys next to us. At the end of the game, David called out to one of the Yankees pitching coaches who threw a ball up to the girls. The girls were SO excited to catch a baseball. Here are some pics of the fun.

Yes Naomi wore that green party bowler hat during the game - nbd it was St. Patrick's Day.

We sat in the sun for about an hour before the shade moved in :)

David, Naomi, and Eliza

Here is Eliza learning to keep score. She liked making k's better than numbers.

Much of the game looked like this - Eliza playing on her Ipod, and Naomi talking to all the neighbors.

The rest of the game looked like this - Naomi eating popcorn and talking to the neighbors.

Naomi loves to take pictures of herself on my phone... especially "tongue ones"

She is such a nerd. I don't know where she gets it.

Even Daddy joined our fun.

We love baseball. Spring Training was FAB - even if we did have to root for the Yankees.