Opening Day!!!!

One of the few existing shots of Joseph with his hat on...

Joseph loves hot dogs as you can tell by the look on his face!

Where all those soldiers are standing is the dimensions of the flag!

Hope it Comes off?....

Yumm...hot dogs....

Let the year begin! That's right I know technically the new year started in January but around the Buck house the year doesn't start until early April. In this case April 10- the Rockies Home opener. If you have never been to Coors Field to see a game, get on travelocity right now and get tickets- it's the best place in the world to watch a game. Anyway, opening day is the best game of the year (playoffs aside of course) and its hard to get tickets. The city is jumping, there is a festival atmosphere, the air force does fly bys and theres fireworks. Plus there is baseball! So this year we went cuz my dad got us tickets. We went early to enjoy the festival atmosphere. Tons of free stuff, lots to eat, and best of all its all free (except the game itself.) Leigh Anna even went a little crazy and got a tattoo.

Jared takes a few swings in the free batting cages

We got free energy drinks, a free foam baseball, free magazine, free sweat band, free autographed Bob Boone baseball, free rally towell, and free batting cage swings. I even won a beanbag toss game! It was fun, and they hadn't even thrown the first pitch yet.

Father and Son...

Eventually we made our way into the stadium which was filled to the brim, the one game a year that sells out (playoffs aside.) They pulled out a huge flag that was the size of the whole outfield and then 4 F-16s did a flyby. Later the pilots of those planes came and got the biggest cheers of the game. Best of all the Rockies killed the Phillies, the Buck's second-most hated baseball team (Sorry to all you Bostonians, you're number 1). 10-3 was the final score. It was great! Even the weather held up. Welcome back baseball!