The month of July was filled with lots of baseball, a summer pool party, college tours and visits from family and friends.
The first baseball tournament for Sam was held at Butler's ball diamond. It's pretty cool that Sam was able to pitch here!
We had our annual pool party followed by fireworks at the end of the night. A lot of family was able to come and celebrate with us.
Of course we had Ben's favorite, the infamous slip n slide with shaving cream!
Sweet Ben, he had a mishap on his first ride down twisting his left pinky. He didn't tell us until the weekend was over. He must have a very high pain tolerance because he never complained about a hurt finger. Two weeks later he showed us his finger again, this time it was quite obvious something was very wrong with it. After a trip to urgent care at Ortho Indy we learned it was broken and was going to require a surgical fix. 5 days later Ben had surgery. He was very brave throughout it all and very cooperative with the physical therapy that followed for the next few months.
Sisters are the best!
Our next college visit with Nick was to the University of Cincinnati. The business school was quite impressive as was the fact that the football stadium is always open and anyone could go onto the field to play a game of frisbee, or anything else! Just as long as the real football team for UC wasn't using the field at the time.
Next up was a baseball tournament at Notre Dame. Sam and I went together and joined a handful of his teammates staying in a Airbnb together on the edge of campus, across the street from the baseball stadium. It was another thrilling location to watch Sam pitch!
The campus of Notre Dame is so beautiful. We walked around campus quite a bit, we visited the Grotto and lit a candle for a special teammate who was going thru a rough health time.
We spent an afternoon visiting our good friends Luke and Amy too while in South Bend. Sam and Luke have been friends since 2nd grade! Their family moved away from our town about 5 years ago. We always enjoy our visits together!
Eric and I joined Ben and a couple of buddies at the Brickyard 400 Nascar race later in the month. It was our first Nascar race! I was surprised at how much fun it was to watch. Ben of course was in heaven watching those cars pass by at crazy speeds!
Ben is living in the right town for his love of all things racing!
We had one more college visit at the University of Illinois to round out the month.
It was fun for Eric to be back on campus where he is an alum of 3 degrees! We passed by his freshman dorm, lots of memories live at U of I for all of us!
My cousin Jake works on campus. We met up with him for lunch after our tour.
