Happy Father's Day!

On Bubba's special day


Muscle Man Peanut


Sweet baby Coconut


Fluffy Baby JP

Happy Father's Day to the greatest man I've ever known. You are the best husband, father and friend that anyone could ever hope to have. Thank you for baseball, football, shooting, camping, fishing, catch in the backyard, haircuts, tickles, rides down the stairs on a crib mattress, rides on the side of the grocery cart, yummy dinners, priesthood example, baptizing two boys (so far), hugs, kisses, cleaning wounds and puke, and so much more. We love you so much Big Daddy!

First of Summer

Baseball Allstar tryouts start tonight. Practices will start tomorrow night and be every night with games on the weekends versus different leagues throughout our state. If they make it all the way to the state championships, we'll be headed up north about 8 hours away at the end of July. Then he'll have a two week break until football practices start. Poor guy, but we can still do fun stuff during the day. He's had baseball camp this week from 8:30-1:30. Tomorrow will be his last day.

My sister stayed with us all of last week while her husband was in training for the forestry service up north. A couple of her girlfriends and her and I celebrated her birthday with Cheesecake Factory Mon. night and we all (minus dad) went bowling that day since we signed up for the Kids Bowl Free program again this year. You only have to pay for shoe rentals and you can literally bowl two games everyday if you wanted to. My mom was here from Wed. until yesterday. She got to see JP's and Bubba's first tournament games that they won! And then on Sat. we had both of their final games at the same time! I stood in between the two fields and could at least see who was in the outfield so I could run back and forth. I've been scorekeeper for JP's team all season so luckily I was able to get a dad to sub so I could watch both. I saw both of them hit each time and stood and watched each game for awhile at a time. Bubba's team lost by only 2! They did a fabulous job. They went from last to playing in the championship game! They all got t-shirts and then the coach had ice cream for both teams. Then B and Bubba got to come over and watch the rest of JP's game that was tied forever. They kept going back and forth so it went to the bottom of the 8th inning (when they normally only play 6)!! We had a kid on base and our biggest hitter hit a home run! Then dad and Bubba came over to watch the rest of the game. JP's team all got t-shirts that said "Champions" on them.





We also went swimming several times last week. Captain Fearless aka Coconut thinks he can swim now since our floaty vest fits him. He just jumps right in. He even 'swam' the entire length of the pool and back the first day.

Peanut's Graduation!

So my little Peanut graduated from preschool on Thurs. It was a fun event and both big brothers left class to come support him. We also each got a photo slideshow DVD (that he's already watched several times). I'm looking forward to having two mornings a week next school year all to myself. That is if doh-doh head Coconut ever has a desire to potty train!

More Baseball Pictures

Pitching



Playing shortstop

I was team photographer the other night at Bubba's game. The head coach's wife had the idea of making these mini-albums for the coach's gifts, so I got a picture of each boy and then made three scrapbooks. Then at our party last night the boys all signed next to their pictures. The coachs loved them. Now they can remember names with the boys on their team. It ended up being more work that I thought, but I think it was worth the final product. So I got some cool action shots of Bubba with the telephoto lens. That thing rocks. Most of the pictures came out really nicely.