FAMILY PRACTICE

Oh my, could she BE any cuter???

Every once in a while we go up to the fields on the weekend to practice...Just the 4 of us.
  We all bat but no one looks quite as cute as Brooke does.

She actually makes pretty good contact and can throw the ball fairly well but, she could care less about catching or going after a ball.  She gets annoyed with a ball coming at her and ends up walking off to run around the trees and play in the dirt. 

Of course, we do a lot of drills for Cole and make him work fairly hard but, Cole does actually try to get Brooke into it as well.

 Softball probably won't be her thing but at least we know she'll look darn cute if she ever decides to give it a try. :-)

 

COLE'S 10th BIRTHDAY

My son turned 10...DOUBLE DIGITS!!!  Wowza!  Ok, the shock factor is over now since his birthday was April 24th but still...It took some getting use to. We've been keeping the birthdays simple since we moved here but, this year we decided to let Cole have some friends over for a sleep over. We have a small house and a joke of a yard so, we were a little nervous about how crazy the house would get.

 

 

 

I got the boys nerf guns and a bazillion whistling bullets so they were highly entertained by trying to shoot each other in the head or the ding dong.  Boys are nuts but, they had a blast.

 In between all that chaos, Brooke and Carrington played with their ribbons so sweetly.

 

They stayed up super late playing a video game baseball tournament.

 Some didn't last as long as others. Poor thing slept in that chair like that all night long.

 

They went to the dinky neighborhood park down the street to play baseball.  It was rainy and pretty chilly outside so the boys threw on a mix match of stuff to keep warm.  Bryce is actually wearing my brown jacket. Lol.  These 2 pictures of them crack me up.  Do they look like a bunch of scrubs or what?

Cole, Will, Jamison, Drane & Bryce

The girls stayed home and drew pretty pictures on the door over and over again. I really like those quiet activities.

Nathan had boy duty but somehow managed to watch from the couch. :-)  It all worked though and the sleepover turned out really well. No fights, no crying, and not too much of a mess.  I'll take that for sure!

Early before school on his actual birthday.

 My little boy is turning into a little man.  Sniff, sniff.

Lots of his birthday presents consisted of baseball gear.  New shoes, new bat, new catcher's equipment.  You would not believe how quickly that stuff adds up.  Bats are outrageous.  Good for us that baseball season is around his birthday.  He often gets early presents because of that but, he'll probably get annoyed with that real soon. It works for now and he seems to be cool with it.

Awwww. They really do love each other...Even if they get on each other's nerves sometimes.

 

Geez my face looks swollen with sleepy eyes.  In my defense, it was early and I'm not so good at waking up.  I either slept really hard or not enough...Or maybe really hard for not long enough.

Cole was pumped to have a game on his birthday.  He kind of had a wild game because he was so excited but, we pulled out the win. 

10 YEARS OLD...

I'm starting to think the years just go by faster from here.

 

STUFF FROM MARCH...YES MARCH

My blogging has become beyond ridiculous...Sorry, Mom.  We got so busy with baseball and work that I guess I was just too tired to do it.  And, of course, once you get behind, it's so hard to catch up.  I actually wrote this post in early April but never posted it because I was missing one little picture.  Baseball just ended a couple of weeks ago for us and we finally have some time to chill.

So, here's the month of March "catch up" post from way back that is basically pointless now...

Nathan grew a beard during his month long hiatus.  Brooke didn't like it and demanded he shave it off right away.  It looks pretty good but I think he looks much younger without it. 

We all filled out a March Madness tournament bracket to see who could earn the most points.  We figured Cole would win since he watches ESPN more than anyone and knows all kinds of stats.  Cole forgot to take in account that there are always big upsets where the team with the better record ends up losing.

Brooke finally said, "Why do you keep asking me? I said I pick Texas!" Sweet girl doesn't know that Texas usually always bombs in the tournament.  And of course, they did.

Guess who got the most points and won??? That's right...Me! BOO-YAH!

At Cole's hitting lessons right before spring practices started.

I sure hope that boy crushes the ball this year after all the effort we've put into it in the off season.

At the Union University baseball game where Cole's hitting instructor is a student coach for the team. 

Brooke was less than thrilled to be there but she wrote a sweet note for Coach David that she gave to one of the players to hand to him.  Can you say crush???

After the last basketball game.  The YMCA program was such a mess this year that I guess they didn't feel like setting up team pictures.  Nice.

Last game of basketball and then straight to baseball practice immediately after.

I often have to tell Brooke I'll stop taking pictures if she'll smile and let me have at least one good one.  She forces out a smile and gives me a grrrr face seconds after.

These 4 are nuts and make a big mess in their rooms but, they actually all play really well together and don't require too much from us besides food.  Gotta love that.

I promise I will try to catch up with the rest of Spring and Summer ASAP.  Probably a good idea since school starts up again in 9 days...Say whaaa???