Our busy 4th of July weekend

Our 4th of July weekend actually started on the 1st. My parents came down for Kale's last Tball game of the season. He was so excited to have his grandparents come cheer him on. He was really cute. My dad had gotten a B's hat when he found out what team Kale played for and Kale made sure he was wearing it for the game.

Madi and Kate. They never watch the games :) They just love to play.

Kale and Katrina (Madi's sister)

My little catcher

Jack loved playing with grandpa's hat. He was pretty funny stealing it off his head and then hiding it behind his back.

The team

The 3 amigos. Toby, Katrina and Kale with their medals and team baseballs. Kale wore his medal to bed that night.

After the game we went to Dairy Queen to celebrate the end of a really fun first season of Tball.

We also did some little projects around the house while my parents were here. It's always nice to have extra help for projects as well as extra sets of hands and eyes to help with the children. Very nice.

Mark and I were able to go on a breakfast date on Friday which was really nice. Then we went to Walmart - I know, romantic - then to the local nursery and then to Home Depot. I tell ya we know how to celebrate our alone time. Anyway, we came home with 2 apple trees to plant. We wanted to plant 2 memorial trees. One for baby quatro and one for Ranger. Under one tree we sprinkled Ranger's ashes. Eventually we'd like to add more trees and have more of a fruit orchard of sorts but for now we start with these two. I love them.

My parents bought us a flag. I was so excited to finally have a flag and proudly display it on our house. So proud that my mom, Mark and I had to go to the road and have my dad hold it up in different places so we could see where it looked the best :)I also took a picture of our garden. So far so good. I mean the plants are still alive - I'm thrilled! We have tomatoes, peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers and strawberries. I wanted more but it wasn't possible this year. Maybe if we can keep these all alive then we'll do much more next year. That's all for now. I have lots of pictures from the parade we went to and from our time before the fireworks on Sunday night. I'll show those later. I'm trying not to overwhelm everyone with tons of pics.

T-ball begins!

Last week was the start of what could possibly be many summers of Kale playing baseball. Oh wow!

He had his first practice last Thursday and his first game last night. Practice was freezing cold. You would've thought he was practicing in the middle of a blizzard. The wind was blowing hard. It was cold. It was cloudy. It was miserable. But I think the kids were too excited to be playing to care. Now Kate, Jack and I did. We left to go sit in the car..

But Mark braved the cold with the video camera and he captured a bunch of videos which I combined to make this one. Never mind the cheesy music. I wasn't paying attention to what music I picked. And then I played it and laughed. I think the music should've been a bit more comical actually :)




And here are some pics from his first game. They didn't get their uniforms till after the game unfortunately.

Games go like this: They play 2 innings. Every player on the team gets to bat each inning.

Let me just say that it's quite the comic show. They have general positions - optional really. The coach directs where they should stand but when the ball is hit you can be sure that at least half of the kids will chase it. There aren't any outs really but they do try and throw to first.

And Kale's little friend Toby is the friendliest first baseman ever! He was introducing himself to all the players. Asking them how old they were and what school they went to. He even picked up first base and cleaned it off with his shirt just so they would be able to find it. So sweet :)

It was also nice for Mark and I to be able to see just how squirrely all 6 year olds can be and that it just isn't our little man.

Warm ups

Boy is it exciting playing left field in T-ball!

Kale's buddy Toby up to bat. They take a few pitches from the coach and if they aren't able to hit it then they pull out the Tee. Toby and Kale both were able to hit the pitches.

Well he missed this one...

But he hit another one and ran....with his tongue out.

Celebrating first base.

Toby heading home.

And Kale prancing home. He was pretty excited to make it all the way.