Presumed to be awesome.

Friday my brother, mom, Rianna, Rhyan, and I all went to the D'backs/Dodgers game. The girls were all decked out in their D'backs gear. The cameraman loved Rhyan and Rianna because we were on the jumbo tron 5 times during the course of the game! Seriously, every time I looked up, there we were. It was a bit disconcerting after a while. Rianna, of course, thought it was the coolest thing ever. And Rhyan was just busy lapping up all the attention she could from everyone around us. Good times!

( Family night at the ballpark! )

It was a good game, with the D'backs winning it 9-4. In the first week of season, the only two games that the D'backs have won have been the two games that I've been at. Obviously, I NEED to be at the ballpark more often! For the good of the team, of course. *g*

We had great seats, just behind the home dugout. So, naturally, I took lots of pictures. Although I didn't take as many as I normally would have, as I was trying to keep up with a very wiggly 1 year old who was hamming it up for the jumbo tron!

( Hot baseball players!!! )

Saturday was spent working. I'm going to be in trial for the next two weeks, staring Tuesday, so I spent most of the day at the jail going over last minute details with my client. For the record, spending the afternoon at the county jail is NOT my idea of a fun Saturday! It was an awesomely rainy and cloudy day, too -- the kind where you just want to curl up with a good book and laze about the house. We don't get very many of those 'round these parts, so it felt like a wasted opportunity. *shrugs* Oh, well. You do what you gotta do.

Today, however, was significantly better as I decided to ignore work for most of the day! We celebrated Easter in our non-religious, candy-filled way at a park. Lots of good food, kiddos having fun with their Easter egg hunt, more desserts than should be legal. Good times! :)

( Rianna and Rhyan in their pretty Easter dresses! )

I hope y'all had a great weekend too!

Oh, man, I really missed baseball! Please don't ever leave me again! *clings*

Ahem. So, yes, the D'backs Home Opener was made of AWESOME with a side of FANTABULOUS!!!!!! We beat the Rockies 9-8, in what turned out to be a really great slug-fest. I have about two million pictures, or perhaps just slightly less than that, that I will post as soon as I find my USB cable. *searches in vain* Unsurprisingly, I have lots of great shots of Chris Snyder (who is looking especially HOT this year). I also took a bunch of pictures of Stephen Drew, Eric Byrnes, Augie Ojeda, and Rockies' catcher Chris Ianetta, with several of my flisters in mind.

Some of the day's highlights:

- A touching pre-game tribute to Marquis Cooper, with his dad and local sportscaster, Bruce Cooper, throwing out the first pitch. *sniff*

- Garlic fries and cold beer!!! Yum!

- Muhammad Ali in the crowd.

- Felipe Lopez, our new second baseman, hitting a home run during his first at bat. And then repeating the feat in the 4th inning from the other side of the plate. He can stay! *g*

- Tony Clark's two home-runs, also from opposite sides of the plate, something that major league baseball hadn't seen since 2000 and never before on Opening Day. Go boys!!!

- Chad Tracy also hit one out and Chris Snyder had a lovely RBI double.

- It was great to see Eric Byrnes on the field. I missed his crazy hair and his even crazier theme song!!! *sings I just wanna use your love* Also, his team pictures look as if they were ripped from his 70's porn star portfolio. They are hysterical!!!

- By some miracle of divine benediction, Conor Jackson has somehow gotten HOTTER since September! I don't understand how this is possible either!!!

- CHRIS SNYDER!!!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ (That doesn't really need any further explanation, does it? *g*)

In conclusion: BASEBALL IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My life is complete.