Weekend in Pictures: St. Louis

The boys and I made a trip back to St. Louis for Scout's 30-day post operation follow-up and decided we would make a fun weekend out of it to celebrate Sawyer's birthday.
We jammed packed our two days there and Sawyer even said it was the most fun weekend EVER! He was obsessed with the view from our hotel room, Busch Stadium!

First stop was the doctor's appointment, which I am happy to report went great. He got a clean bill of health and a full release with no restrictions!

Then we headed to Ikea, the Turtle Park (it was 75 degrees out!), a trip up to the 360 bar/restaurant at our hotel for view of the city, and finished the night with dinner at Llywelyn's Pub in Soulard with my family to celebrate my cousin's engagement.

Saturday we got up early had breakfast at one of my new favorites, Snarf's, and went to the City Museum. We could have spent all day there but needed to head home so finished off the weekend with lunch at Kirkwood Station Brewery.

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Coloring in the hotel room

Turtle Park

Beautiful weather in February!!!

View from the top of our hotel Hilton at the Ballpark

Sawyer had to get a drink at the 360 bar :)

Birthday gifts from Aunt Julie & Uncle Scott - A Lego Zamboni!!

Little blues toy for Scout too

A new Blues hoodie too!

Newly engaged Nick & Meghan...Can't Wait!!!!

The next morning, Sawyer had to build the Zamboni

City Museum!

Exploring the many tunnels

Why I love what I do: Part 2

Last week was my third O'Reilly Managers' Conference in St. Louis, MO. More than 6,100 O'Reilly store managers gathered for education and awards. My conference responsibilities, with the help of a wonderful team, grows each year and ranges from signage, presentations, name badges, photography, and really all the behind-the-scenes stuff to make sure it goes off without a hitch. It is an exciting but exhausting job and not for the faint of heart. Each year I learn more and feel more confident in my role. My favorite part is that I get to take some awesome photos and meet and/or reconnect with some incredible people across the country. The hardest thing about last week was being away from my boys for 7 days. Scout even crawled for the first time while I was gone! BUT...they were in amazing hands with John and my parents helping out. His teachers sent me videos and photos that helped too.

Congrats to Tracie & Julie for another amazing conference, you ladies are rock stars!

Here are some photos from the week:

The crew heading up Sunday

This is our "before" picture Monday morning

the Ferrara Theater set being installed

The screen itself weighed 9,000 lbs.

building the set

Pano of the dome getting set

A little face time with my main man

Theater set complete

Pano of the set complete

Rehearsals for the first General Session in the Dome

Regional and District Manager Dinner at Ball Park Village

Dinner at Sauce on the Side after a long day

Our travel team working hard!

Tracie and Julie, the women behind Conference!

Hugs for hard work! We were ready to get the show started

shooting T-shirts into the crowd!

Moderated discussion with the O'Reilly Family

We fit two full size semis in the dome

The photo team!

Arch Rivals Roller Derby Girls

Cheryl with Charlie O'Reilly

Machine Gun Symphony rocked the house!

Drummer in his undies!

With the band!

HR Photo Booth with Cheryl & Julie

Closing Ceremonies

Meet & Greet with Uncle Kracker

And our "After" photo. We survived