Random Carson Boxberger Happenings

At the beginning of the summer, Gordy got to go to Chicago for the day with the other summer associates, and some of the other attorneys. After the business was all taken care of, they did a little shopping, ate lunch at The Purple Pig (yes, I was jealous), and got Garrett's popcorn. I would say that made for a pretty good day. 

Carson Boxberger had a BBQ midsummer. It was really fun for me to be able to put some more names with faces. Speaking of faces, check out how incredibly happy this little face is. Nothing like a boy enjoying a chocolate cupcake...

Occasionally, Gordy would need to run into work on a Saturday. Not a big deal at all because we live right across the street. Every once in a while, Jack would get to go into work with Dad. He would keep himself busy coloring on legal paper and playing with the phone... Might we have another future lawyer in our family...? I guess time will tell.

There was a dinner party at Fort Wayne Country Club. Gordy had to fly solo because we didn't have a babysitter for Jack, but the night wasn't a total loss because he enjoyed the excellent company of his coworkers, had a delicious meal, and won the firm putting tournament (which scored him a $100 gift card). Boo-yah, that's my man. 

If I had to choose, I would say probably the coolest thing Gordy got to do this summer was go to Ohio to observe a transaction. He was able to spend the entire day with Bruce Boxberger and one of their biggest clients, which would have been cool on its own. BUT, the even COOLER part was that this client FLEW them to their meeting in Ohio, in a HELICOPTER! Taking a helicopter to work certainly beats taking the bus to school...

This client also gave Gordy a tour of his "barn" which happened to be filled with the most amazing cars. I sure wouldn't mind having a barn like that...

Bath Time

Bath time is pretty much Jack's favorite thing to do these days. He usually asks about 500 million times a day if its bath time yet. When he gets in, he never wants to get out. For this reason, I have delegated bath time duties to Gordy for the duration of my pregnancy. It is just too difficult to bend down and bathe Jack in our tiny little bathroom, in our tiny little bathtub that has sliding glass doors. It's seriously almost impossible for me to do. Luckily, I have an amazing husband who is a good sport and accommodates me. He makes bath time so much fun for Jack, which is why I think the little guy loves it so much. 

Gord even teaches him cool tricks, like how to lay down in the water... 

Carson Boxberger Softball

All throughout this summer, our regular Wednesday night activity was going to watch Gord play on the Carson Boxberger softball team. It was a really good excuse to get Jack out of the apartment. There is a nice play ground at the park, and Jack and I would spend most of the evening on the swings while Gordy played ball. 

Occasionally, we would walk back over to watch Gord play. Jack was such a cute cheerleader. He would yell, "GO, GO, GO" and "YAY" for everyone and anything that happened. 

It was a little difficult keeping him over by the game though, because he was just convinced that he belonged out on the field... poor guy.

At the end of the season, the whole team went out to get pizza, and the coach presented awards. All of them were kind of silly. Gordy got the Most Valuable Summer Associate Award (as a way to annoy the other summer associates).

Three Rivers Festival

This passed weekend was the Three Rivers Festival, the festival the locals had been talking about ever since we arrived. It is the biggest festival of the year, and lasted for TEN days! They kicked the whole thing off with a Led Zepplin cover band concert (on our block) that lasted from 6pm-12am. It was so loud I wanted to shoot some one, or something... Not literally, but when I'm pregnant I get agitated easily... and for some reason saying ridiculous things makes me feel better...

Anyway, the next morning, we woke up and went out to a nice family breakfast. Then we took Jack to the parade. This was a pretty big deal. There were 176 entries, and it was scheduled to last for at least TWO HOURS. I thought that Jack might be interested in seeing the bands, the horses, and some of the cars, but he was totally into it. Way more into it than I expected. He was hooked. Every time anyone or anything would pass, he would wave and say hi. "Hi, doggy", "Hi, fire truck", "Hi, guy". He was the cutest. You can see here just how fixated he was...

After about an hour of watching, I started to ask Jack every few minutes if he was ready to go home yet. He responded "no" every time. So we ended up staying until my poor pregnant feet started swelling and it was time for Jack to take his nap.

The chicken man came over and we snapped a shot. Jack's face is totally priceless. 

On Sunday, we walked down to the river to see the sidewalk chalk contest. Some of them were really, really amazing. I thought that it was so incredible that people could make something look so realistic, with sidewalk chalk, in under a day. They are talented, I tell ya. 

Later on in the week, we walked down to the multicultural festival and toured the booths, walked the carnival, explored junk food alley (where we devoured a delicious snow cone with vanilla ice cream), and of course we watched the guys giving helicopter tours take off (which Jack LOVED). 

On the following Sunday, the festival closed by having a HUGE firework show that started at 10pm... and wouldn't ya know it, they launched the fireworks off of our neighboring building. It sounded like we were being bombed. Literally our windows and walls were shaking. I could not believe that Jack actually slept through all of the noise. Lucky us...

All in all, it was a very noisy, but very exciting week.  

Tin Caps Game

Gord's firm has a box at the Tin Caps stadium (the minor league team here in Fort Wayne), and they were giving away tickets, so naturally we took advantage. I have decided that watching sports from the box is most definitely the way to go. We had the most amazing view, air conditioner, we ordered food, and at one point it started raining and of course we stayed dry. Not going to lie, it felt pretty classy. 

Somehow, Jack messed with the settings on my camera so that only the green stood out. I guess that's okay since Tin Caps colors happen to be green and red.... He had such a good time sharing a GINORMOUS burrito with his dad. 

but of course he NEEDED the camera...

Please excuse the fact that I look like a beached whale in the picture. It's the only family shot that I got. Note to self: when pregnant always stand furthest away from the camera.

Of course the best part of the entire game was Jack getting to play at the splash pad with his bud, Jonah. 

We had such a fun night and it was an experience I know I will always remember.