Rylan's 7th Birthday Party

For Rylan's birthday party this year, he decided he wanted to go to a Nashville Sounds game.  We told him he could invite 3 or 4 friends but he only wanted his bestie from his class this year, Hudson.  He also wanted Carter to come and for Carter to bring his best friend, Whit.  Rylan didn't want Gray to come since he often takes over and can sometimes be a pain.  So I stayed home with Gray and Brian took the four boys to the game.

We originally had tickets for the game on Rylan's birthday, June 28th.  Unfortunately Hudson came down with Hand, Foot, & Mouth a couple of days before the game so we had to reschedule.  Luckily the Sounds were nice enough to let us switch the tickets to another night.  So the boys went to the game last night, Sunday, July 9th.

Rylan said that Gray and I could join them for dinner so I picked Hudson and Whit up at their houses and we met Brian with Gray at Burger King.  We told Rylan he could go anywhere for dinner and BK was his choice.  I wasn't going to complain since it's cheap!

Brian sent me updates throughout the evening.  This weekend was Star Wars Trilogy weekend and Sunday's games was Character Night.

Brian and the boys had tickets in Section 209, Row A.  It was right behind home plate on the first row of the upper level.

We are cheap and limit the boys to one item of food for the whole family at a game (which is usually bottomless popcorn) so it was a real treat that the kids got both popcorn and Dippin Dots :)

When Brian went to get popcorn, he missed the boys having fun with Chewbacca.  Apparently Chewbacca was a few sections down in the suite area announcing the players for that inning (which would have been pretty bad, I'm guessing).  Anyway, between announcing duties, the boys were making faces at Chewy and he was making faces back at them, including blowing them kisses.  According to the boys, it was pretty funny.

The kids made the Jumbotron twice (once from the front and once from behind)!

The Sounds ended up losing 2-1 in 10 innings - the Redbirds hit a homerun in the top of the 10th.  After the game, the kids got to run the bases before heading home.  Brian dropped the other boys at their houses and finally made it home about 10:45 pm.  It took the boys about two minutes to pass out.  They all had a blast and I'm sure it was a memorable "party" for Rylan!