Unique Way to Spend Opening Day

Where did you spend Opening Day? Were you at home on the couch watching the games or were you at work listening or keeping track of the games on your phone? My cousin and I found a rather unique way to spend Opening Day. My cousin Sarah and I are avid Cardinal fans, just look at the pictures below. We were both at Game 6 in 2011 watching David Freese hit that marvelous home run in the batting cage straight away center field. We went to a couple of games together last summer including Christian Day at the ballpark. But like the rest of the family Cardinal blood runs in our body, maybe a little deeper in ours than the others.

We were out to lunch and super excited about it being Opening Day finally and we got to talking about my favorite store Pro-Image(the only place to find good Cardinals stuff in this town) and we decided to go over there because well, we love the Cardinals. We walked around looking at the great stuff they have and decided to go to JC Penny because she thought they had good Cardinals stuff and they did! That is where she found that awesome blue jersey she has on, remnant of the '82 jerseys, and she bought it! That is where I got the great idea of going to Sears(where I work) to take pictures! I'm sure my coworker thinks I'm crazy now but we got some great photos!

This is the last picture we took, we were already laying on the ground for the sepia one(see below) and I wanted to take one more, so I said, "Sarah flop over my back." She as you would expect said, "WHAT?" She grabbed the glove and did exactly what I said but when she did it I was laughing so hard that explains the look on my face! It ended up a great picture and its our favorite of the day.

I wanted individual shots of us because our jerseys were so cool and these ended up being our favorites, because we feel so connected to the 2011 World Series Championship, since we were there, so we decided to hold up the 1s for 11. They turned out really cute!

The other two are really great pictures. My coworker really did a great job and we were so lucky that they didn't have an appointment when we wanted to take pictures. In honor of opening day of course we had to get a picture in the batters box. Sarah was a great sport and we had so much fun! We took a lot more pictures but we could only send 5 to our phone so we settle on these but all of these are my favorites from the session. And now we have a tradition on Opening Day! Wear a different jersey and go get our picture taken!!

~Emily