Play Ball!

Does life ever slow down??? Of course, that is a rhetorical question; I know it doesn't as is proved by our life this past weekend....We started out the weekend enjoying dinner Friday night and then Saturday morning came and we hit the ground running.

Our morning started with a run to the grocery store for some donuts while we were on our way to the Opening Ceremonies for the BYS baseball season. I think that might have been one of the best donuts I have ever had and the children enjoyed theirs too...I have begun to notice lately that when eating messy food items, like donuts with icing, more and more of the food is ending up in their mouths instead of on their face, shirt, etc. Another one of those "babyisms" that they are out growing...anyway, back to the tball thing.

We weren't quite sure what to expect when we showed up as there wasn't much direction, but it was one of the cutest and fun things that we have gotten to be involved with as a family thus far.

Check out my cute little man....Pratt picked up his uniform the night before and he wanted to get #14 as that was both of our numbers in high school (we were just meant to be...and we each individually chose that number before we started dating), but since they didn't have it #7 was the next best thing...



As we were walking up trying to find our team we passed the minor team of Red Sox and those boys were so sweet! They got so excited to see JP. They talked to him, wished him luck and gave high fives. JP ate it up!

Here is his buddy Cole...I mean, it just doesn't get any cuter than little guys in over sized baseball uniforms and hats...



The team walking into the fields to be announced to the crowd.



The rest of Saturday consisted of running some errands, going to a birthday party for Eliza (none of my pictures turned out, but it was at the dance studio and the girls had the time of their lives), dropped the children off at Papa and Grammie's, drove to Beaufort for an engagement party, raced backed, grabbed the children from Papa and Grammie's, and finally to bed around 11:00pm.

Sunday was a great day. Pratt was ordained as a deacon at the church and then we went to Hampton Lake for lunch to celebrate my sister's birthday. After some yummy food and cake we all about crashed for a quick nap. When Pratt and JP woke up we went back over to Papa and Grammie's for dinner with family. Pratt's family from TN is in this week and it is always so much fun to see them and hang out.

And I am going to skip over Monday....

Tuesday was another running around day. We had school and all the normal stuff. Shelby had her last tennis lesson:( We were so bummed to say good bye to Coach Brett. Shelby loved, loved, loved tennis! And the good news is, that while this session is over, the next one starts in two weeks and I think that all her friends are going to sign up again. It was amazing to see how much she progressed in just four weeks. At the end of the lesson yesterday Coach Brett was bouncing the ball to her and she had to hit it back to him; the times I got to see, she made solid contact with the ball everytime.

As soon as tennis was over we raced over to the ball field for JP's first tball game. They did a little warming up for the game and then hollered, "Batter up"

JP and Harrison discussing the strategy of rally caps before the game.



JP's first at bat; getting some last minute pointers from Coach Larry.



Running from first to second



In the field.


It was so hilarious to watch these children play. As the game went on they one by one began to lose interest and would start to do things like build clay castles, pick their noses, run around, put their gloves on their hats, throw their hats around, etc.

After the last batter hit they all congratulated each other and ran back for snack time.