SWEET SWEET SUMMER- JUNE EDITION

Celebrating the end of the craziest, saddest, most wild school year.

Lots of Lele time! 

Colt went to Urban Air with friends.

This boy loves his Chloe!

Chases first practice with the Fairfield All Stars

Liams first swim.

Getting Colts bike fixed.  They picked out new bikes. 

Trying to stay cool.

We cute.

When Grandad goes to visit, the boys don't miss a chance.  

Gordon came to hang.

First visit to Typhoon in almost two years!

Celebrating Luke and Shannon with friends.

This kid! 

First swim at Grana's.

TayTay and Robby came to visit.

My baby...

Hanging with friends.

I made them do this.

A little more Lele time to round out the month.

Tournament Ball

Chase had his first taste of tournament ball when he made the 10u All Star team in Fairfield this summer.  After a lot of rain and some change of plans they finally played in two tournaments.  

The first tournament in Waller was small but they played so well.  They played like a team that had been together for years, not weeks.  We had lots of visitors out to watch and cheer Chase on and he was really just in his element.  He loved pitching and pitched so well. The team ended up taking home a championship win and ring! I won't ever forget how HOT it was though! 

Our last tournament didn't start out well.  They played awful on day one and we ended up coming in 9th out of 9.  The boys just weren't on their game.  They didn't hit and missed ball after ball.  But, they knew Sunday was what really counted.  Being last didn't mean you lost just meant they had to play harder to come back and win on Sunday.  With a lot of rain in the forecast,  we woke up bright and early on Sunday to play.  We arrived to the most run down wet fields.  After a 45 minute delay getting rid of the small swimming pools on the field, we started up.  The weather was PHENOMENAL and the boys played AMAZING.  They were on fire and so much fun to watch.  Bottom of the last inning with literally one minute left, the heavens opened up and the tournament ended up getting cancelled.  

We were playing the top team in our bracket on Sunday so in an unexpected turn of events, we found out we WON after getting home.  Not sure how I feel about the win.  The boys played that Sunday game amazing. Like CHAMPIONS but the Saturday games definitely didn't win us any rings.   

Rules are rules.  

We beat the top seeded team in our bracket.  

We were the only game abel to play before the rain washed the fields away. 

So.....

TEENAGER in the HOUSE

It's OFFICIAL...We have a TEENAGER in the house! 

Our confident, dare devil, helpful, kind, silly baby is officially a teenager and I can not believe how fast the time has gone!  We are absolutely so proud of his hard work and determination.  He is growing up to be quite the young man! 

We celebrated with a small family party and a couple school buddies stayed the night.  

Then, on his actual birthday we celebrated as a family with all his favs.  Biscuits for breakfast, presents, pool time, and Piada and Smoosh for dinner! And, 13 flips on the trampoline at 11:30PM.

Happy Father's Day

We stretched Father's Day out over a whole week.  These two deserve celebrating, so it worked out. 

The week before, the boys and I decided to take Zak and Grandad out to dinner since we were suppose to have baseball games all weekend on Father's Day weekend.  The boys couldn't wait to give dad their present to him so they went ahead with that too.

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Father's Day came around and Baseball ended a day earlier than expected, so we celebrated again.  

Father's Day was an emotional Day for Zak.  His first without his dad was really tough.  Zak's sweet dad is so missed every day but special celebrations like Father's Day hit a little harder.