World Series Final Game

After a long week of baseball games, Colby's last game was on Saturday morning at 8am. He had to be there at 7am, so there was no sleeping in for us. Up to this game, his team had not won a game yet. They had a heartbreaker of a game on Friday and lost by one point. Saturday's game was a nail biter. The boys played exceptionally well! It came down to the last inning. The game was tied and we had last bat. We had 2 outs, a runner on 1st and a kid at bat. The runner on 1st was stealing 2nd when the catcher tried to throw him out at 2nd. The ball was overthrown and it went into the outfield. Our runner that was on 1st made it all the way to home on the error. The boys were so ecstatic. A lot of us moms teared up. It had been a long week, and although nothing seemed to damper the boys attitudes, we all wanted a WIN so bad. The boys finally got their hard earned win and it was a great way to end the week.

Colby getting ready to play catcher.

The team tackling Kyle out of excitement of scoring the winning run.

Colby attentively listening to the coach give his post-game speech.The team after they received their medals.

World Series Update

Tonight we play game 5. It has been a rough week for Colby's team and they haven't won yet, but we are still hopeful. They are having FUN and that is what counts! We play again tomorrow morning and again on Saturday. They will have played 7 games in 7 days. After this tournament, we are going to re-evaluate what we are going to do in terms of teams and leagues. We can 1) stay on the same team in FMYSA, 2) go back to the draft in FMYSA, 3) switch over to Lewisville's Baseball Association, or 4) have Colby try out for a tournament team. I'd love to do #4, but we are letting Colby decide.

World Series

Colby is playing in the World Series in Flower Mound. I just received the tournament schedule and HOLY MOLY! There 60 teams in Colby's division. I'm not sure how many games they are guaranteed; I think it is at least a 5 game guarantee. They have 3 games of pool play to determine their place in the tournament bracket. Starting tonight, they have a scrimmage. Tomorrow is the Team Registration. Saturday, there is batting practice and then the Opening Ceremony parade and trading pin event. Sunday, the games begin. As of right now he plays on Sunday at noon. On Monday, he plays at noon and at 8pm, so it looks like I am just taking Monday off. I'm not about to come in to work for a few hours. It just isn't worth it with the way gas prices are. Wednesday - Saturday games are yet to be determined b/c the pool play will determine the bracket placing for Wednesday. Glad that I have a flexible job! Jason cannot take off of work b/c he hasn't accumlated any time off yet. So, our next 7 days are consumed with baseball. Not to mention, we have a rehearsal dinner and wedding on Friday and Saturday. Looks like I'm going to have to get creative with scheduling and calling up my brother to see if he can help out, if need be. What REALLY sucks - there is a $10 gate fee per person per day for the tournament! I can buy a gate pass at registration for $35, but if you buy it thereafter...it is $40/person or $10/person (daily). Luckily, Tristen is free, so we won't have to pay for him. Thus the life of what we could expect for Select Baseball.

Colby at the Opening Ceremonies.

Colby and one of his good friends, Hunter.

Colby's towel with all of his trading pins from the World Series.

End of the Opening Ceremonies.

Need a good laugh...

Check out our niece dancing! Oh my oh my! The one w/Abby wearing the little mermaid bikini top is h.i.l.a.r.i.o.u.s. All of the videos will give you a good laugh, so if you are bored...watch all of them. There are more videos on the more recent posts. The videos of her driving are pretty funny too.

Here is their blog - Abby, Marty & Phillip - ENJOY!

Summer Fun

We headed up to Denton to go to Denton Waterworks. I wanted to take the boys to a different waterpark besides the ones here in Lewisville, so I found this one. I didn't realize how far it was and it seemed like it took FoReVeR to get there b/c of the construction in Denton on Loop 288. It isn't terribly priced, but it seemed a bit more expensive than some of the other waterparks that compared in size. The boys had fun, regardless.

There were 4 slides. A tube slide, an orange slide, a blue slide and a yellow slide. I knew the boys wouldn't attempt the yellow slide b/c it is one of those slides that is at an 80 degree angle/drop (aka - huge wedgie giver). Colby got all the way to the top and was about to slide down the blue slide and he realized he had his cell phone in his pocket, so he had to come all the way back down. He was practically in tears. Tristen ventured off on his own and had already done 2 slides by the time I saw him again. I told Colby I would go wait in line with him. He decides he wanted to do the orange slide. We get to the top and realize that it 'technically' is a smaller kids slide. They weren't kidding! It looks the same as all of the other big slides - except for the water pressure! I went down it anyways.....but ended up having to push myself down 1/2 of the slide.

I wanted to try out the tube slide, but Colby wasn't having ANYTHING to do with it. I told him that I was thinking about trying to plan a trip to Schlitterbahn and wanted him to show me that he was brave enough to ride some of the bigger rides. I also was intentionally trying to help him overcome some of his fears. He SOOO is not the risk taker. Tristen had already been down the tube slide several times. While we were waiting in line, you could tell Colby really wasn't sure about the slide. (Mind you the slide, is an enclosed tube, so you cannot see anything.) Finally, we are next and Colby goes down. I was HOPING that he enjoyed it and wasn't scared and crying at the bottom. I went down the tube and learned that, I'm pretty claustrophobic. Knowing that there is an end to the slide, but not being able to see anything (not even my hand in front of my face), the end could not come fast enough. (This slide, is really, not that big of a deal!) Anyways, I get to the end and see the biggest smile on Colby's face. He LOVED it and went on it numerous more times. I'm so glad I was able to convince him to go down it!

Our niece Abby watching the boys come down the slide.

Colby coming down the slide.

Tristen - posing for the camera.
Jason - trying to hold his sunglasses on his face.

Quick Update

We've been busy this past week with everything from job changes to baseball tournaments to birthday parties to holiday parties. Here's a quick update:

• Jason changed jobs effective Monday! He's back to one of his old places of employment, which is about a mile from the house and he got a raise!


• Due to Jason changing jobs, he took last week off of work and spent it with the boys. Below are some pictures of them from when they went fishing.


• Colby had a baseball tournament 4th of July weekend. He got to pitch (finally) and he did great!


• We helped celebrate Aspen's 13th birthday (our niece). Check out the bounce house water slides below! I think we might need one of these in our backyard!


• We celebrated the 4th of July at one of Jason's friend's house who just put in a pool in their backyard. I failed to take any pictures of the festivities. Oops.

Notice Colby is doing a flip down the slide...

Tigger's Cousin, Charlie (aka my brother's dog)

The Garden We Never Knew We Had

To our surprise, our previous owners had a garden in the backyard. We recently found this out when Jason was picking weeds out of the flower bed that Tigger has almost destroyed. (<-----I will get to that in a minute.) Jason found strawberries growing in the garden on Tuesday night. We've have these other things that have sprout up that look like corn, but we figured they would begin blooming flowers once they got a little bigger. Now, I really think it is corn. Today, Jason was working to move a bush from the backyard flower bed/garden to the front flower bed (to replace some HORRIBLE ivy) and he start digging with a shovel and heard a cracking noise. He put down the shovel to see what he had hit and it was onions! While, I would love to really have a nice garden in our backyard to grow some vegetables like this, our dog most likely will not allow this.

Tigger, loves to dig in the flower bed to lay in the cool dirt. Not only that, his pee is deadly! Seriously, he can pee on something one time and it turns brown. So, we are slowly trying to relocate some of the plants from the flower bed/garden to the front.