The Fryer Six: 2011 D*backs Fan Fest!

Valentine's Weekend Staycation
Day 2
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Chase Field

We walked from our hotel and got to Chase Field bright and early! Thanks to Subway we earned an early entry wristband that got us in over an hour early before the event! We had no lines for everything that we did!

Even Mickey is a D-back fan!

Mark and Cayden heading down to the field! This was our third year to attend the D-backs Fan Fest! We love our Arizona Diamondbacks.

Chillin in Baxter's sweet ride! Carson has entered a contest to win a chance to cruise in Baxter's ride before a home game with Baxter. Keep your fingers crossed for him!

First autograph of the day went to Keira! We didn't even have to wait in line! Lucky girl got Miguel (Miggy) Montero's autograph! Miggy is the D-backs awesome catcher and a real nice guy!

Carson scored BIG with his first autograph of the day by getting shortstop Stephen Drew's autograph for the second time! Carson's favorite player for years has been #6 Stephen Drew! Stephen is one of the best shortstops out there!

Carson and #6 Stephen Drew! Once again, no line for this autograph either. Stephen was just kind of standing there! Stephen is a great guy!

Carson with catcher, Miguel Montero!

Cayden and Carson with the President and CEO of the D-backs, Derrick Hall! Mr. Hall is such a friendly guy!

Mark hit up the D-backs yard sale and scored some cool D-back stuff for the entire family!

Keira hit up the free family fun zone and had a great time bouncing and sliding!

Carson was playing some wiffle ball and #6 Stephen Drew walks on to the fields and starts to pitch! The best part about it is Carson on first base frantically unbuttoning his D-back jersey! At first I didn't get why, but I soon realized that underneath Carson's jersey was his favorite#6 Stephen Drew shirt! I tell you that Carson is one smart kid:-)

Carson running to me as fast as he could! He threw his D-back shirt to me and ran back on the field to play some wiffle ball with his favorite baseball player, Stephen Drew!

Carson gathering the balls up for his favorite player #6 Stephen Drew! Carson was so proud to be wearing Stephen's shirt!

Stephen Drew and Carson!

#6 Stephen Drew pitching and Carson playing second base!

Carson up to bat with Stephen Drew pitching to him! Check out the video at the end of this post.

Go Carson!

It's not everyday that you get to play ball with your favorite baseball player!

Carson with infielder, Brandon Allen.

Carson and closing pitcher, David Hernandez!

Cayden with his favorite in-game host, Vanessa!

Carson with pitcher, Armando Galarraga, and outfielder, Chris Young! This picture made the D-backs home page as well as in their Fan Fest video! Click the link below to see the video: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=13111681

Keira hugging one of her favorite D-back players, Chris Young! Keira, Carson and I were standing in line for Baxter and Keira ran out of line past security to hug Chris! LOL! Everyone started laughing including security!

I love the look on Chris Young's and the security guy's face! I'm sure Chris didn't know what to think of a 4-year old running up to hug him! LOL! Go Keira!

Carson scored pitcher, Juan Gutierrez's autograph!

Carson trying to get Matt Williams attention! Matt Williams was one of the original D-back players and played for the team when they won the 2001 World Series! Matt is now the third base coach for the D-backs!

Keira's favorite autograph of the day! This is the first time that Keira went up to Baxter all by herself!

Keira and D. Baxter the Bobcat!

D.Baxter is the #2 reason why Carson loves the D-backs(Stephen Drew is #1)! Carson loves his costumed characters.

Henry the Gila Monster!

We got to tour the D-back Clubhouse! This tire is what the players hit, kick, punch and take a swing at when things aren't going good! They put this up because the walls and pipes were being damaged. Now if the players hit anything else they get fined!