Sunday, March 23, 2014

St. Louis Arch & Busch Stadium

This week was Jon's springbreak from school so we got out of the house as much as possible and finally made a trip to visit the infamous arch and walked around downtown to the Busch stadium.
 Old Courthouse across from the St. Louis Arch.
 We had to walk a couple blocks since parking and construction was crazy.
 An impressive structure, the "Gateway to the West".
 Who knew there was an underground museum from one side of the arch to the other?
Waiting in line to enter the museum, I forget the national monuments have security and metal detectors and have to process bags through a xray machine.  They even patted down our double stroller.
 Inside the museum that I thought was interesting and Maddie thought was boring, ha.
 John C. Fremont who discovered Hooper Utah and who Fremont High  (Jons highschool) was named after.
 Jon pointing out on a map where Hooper is located.
 I hate selfies but look I was there.
 Yeah.  Wish I could have gotten a picture of the crazy lady dressed in all denim that spoke to and then followed us.  She meant well but scared that crap out of me.  Please don't stab me.
 Grass is green and the field is looking ready to play.  Actually ballpark village opens this Thursday.
 Hopefully we get to watch a game this summer.
 Maddie my little budding photographer.
 These tiles surround the stadium.
 Seriously she took all these pictures, impressive right?
 She enjoyed this trip especially the rock candy we bought from the little general store in the museum. 
Ended the family fun at a near by park.  She's really good climbing these rockwalls, probably better than I'd do.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Repost Help A Friend

If you haven't voted yet please do so, they are currently in 3rd place.  This family has gone through so many challenges.  Their son had a brain injury accident and then their dad (Jon's friend) went totally blind.  Exactly they deserve this.
PLEASE help us WIN DAKOTA a BIKE!!!!!!

For those of you who have been reading my blog I have talked a little bit about this therapy bike that Dakota gets to use when we go to physical therapy. It is such an AMAZING bike and Dakota absolutely LOVES it! Not only does he smile and enjoy just being a regular kid riding a bike it helps a lot with his range of motion in his legs and helps him relax his legs and get rid of his spasticity. On top of that he gets to build muscle strength in his whole body as he works to hold his head up and push the petals a little bit on his own.

The problem is we only go to therapy twice a month and when he gets to ride the bike it is only for about 30 minutes if that. It is definitely not enough to get to make a big difference. His therapist and doctors have recommended that we get one for him to use at home but the problem is it is $4,000!!! If we had a money tree in our backyard I would be ALL over that bike…but unfortunately my landscaping husband hasn’t planted one of those yet! ;)

But this AMAZING organization called the friendship circle does a bike giveaway ONCE a year and it is happening this month!!! I just entered Dakota and NEED DESPERATELY ANYONE THAT READS THIS TO PLEASE VOTE FOR DAKOTA! The kid with the most votes automatically wins the bike and any other kid with at least 50 votes gets put in a raffle drawing for the remaining bikes.

Seriously…all you have to do is click on this link and their is a big red button that says vote for Dakota. Click it and you are done! It seriously takes 2 seconds!!  That is ALL I’m asking!! And then once you vote then you CAN tell ALL your friends and family about it too so they can vote too! ;) That’s it! The contest closes on the 24th so HURRY!!!!!!!

It would sure make my heart so happy to get to cruise Dakota around the neighborhood with the other kids and let him just be a kid!!!
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The Friedli Family is on my list of blogs that I follow.  An inspiring family to say the least.