Weekend Recap

Weekend Recap

Busy weekend, what with boys baseball, and Fathers Day. And with Kim working day shifts both days it was pretty challenging.

So Saturday Daniel had his first t-ball game, then had to play another as the schedule makers set up his team with a double header to start the season. And then James had his first game. Which meant a 3 hour block of time at the Palmer HS practice field. Daniel seemed to enjoy himself, although the second game was definitely too much. But he did go out and play the entire game, which was a real big step in the right direction and difference from the Indoor soccer. What the Y does is just let each team bat through the order twice, for a total of 2 innings. They don't even try to worry about outs or anything like that. It is just hit and run, and have the fielding team try and get the ball and get it to first base. Which is really fun to watch. Daniel's team has I think 7 kids total, and 3 of them are Daniel, Brandon (cousin) and Seth (family friend), so our little group comprises the core of the team.

3 of the 4 kids in the first team circle pictured above are 'our kids'.

James game went well, although I am not sure how into it he is, although he was kind of worn out by game time. But he did get 2 decent hits playing coach pitch. Here is the second one:

What's cool is you can see the ball in the air as he runs to first.

So we had a pretty busy morning Saturday followed by a relaxed afternoon and evening. We then decided to go ahead and host a Fathers day Barbecue at our house Sunday. I got a chance to try out the new grill. It was a very relaxed occasion, the only problems were Emily being somewhat grouchy and James kept getting hurt while rough housing on the trampoline. He has a very hard time sometimes keeping up with the big kids. For one thing he is small for his age, and while he tries hard to hang in there he gets bounced around a lot. And he gets very dramatic about his injuries, which does get on my nerves after a while. But he does keep going back in, and eventually he realized that we had had enough, and somehow stuck it out the rest of the night. I got some pictures but haven't uploaded them yet, I hope to do so tonight and will link this when I do.