What a weekend? Really, the past week has been such a whirlwind. Although, I was in and out of the office last week. I need a vacation. Friday, Colby had a 11:15am game in the World Series. After his game, Colby and I rushed off to the mall to try and find a dress for a wedding Jason and I were attending on Saturday. Jason headed off to pick up his tux and get a haircut. After scurrying around through the mall, I finally get home around 3:45 as we need to leave the house at 5pm to get to Wylie by 6pm (on a Friday afternoon w/traffic). Jason isn't home yet from getting his haircut, and finally walks in the door at 4:30. In between trying to get dressed and clothes ironed, I'm trying to coordinate with my brother to come get Colby. Tristen went over to his mom's house last Monday and has been over there ever since, so he has missed out on all of the excitement. We finally get out of the door on time and head to Wylie. Colby got to hang out with the big kids on a Friday night. He went to see The Dark Night with my brother, his wife and some of their friends.
Saturday morning came early (see post below). After the ceremony of his team receiving their medals, we hurry home, shower, and change to get to Wylie by 12pm. My brother and his wife came and got Colby again. The wedding was at 2 and Jason needed to be there at 12 since he was in the wedding. I dropped Jason off at the church and went and ran a few errands. Got back to the church, changed clothes and then the wedding started. It was an very nice, small wedding. The guys in the wedding had forgot (as always) to bring any materials to decorate the 'getaway car' with, so I ran off to CVS during the reception to get some shoe polish and twine. I will post some hilarious video of the guys decorating/moving the groom's (old/vintage) VW Beetle.
After the wedding, we headed home and relaxed for a little bit. We met up with my brother and his wife to pick up Colby and eat dinner. After dinner we headed home and did some more relaxing. We purchased some bed risers and wall (dry-erase) calendars for the boys' rooms, so we setup those things. (Calendars for the upcoming school year to try and teach them to be more organized and to keep up with their school work and activities.)
Sunday, Jason got up and tackled the yard and I cleaned, while we waited on Colby's mom to come pick him up. Tristen rode with his mom to come pick Colby up so it was good to see him. We hadn't seen him in almost a week, but they will be back Tuesday night. After they boys left, Jason and I headed off to Ikea. Naturally, I hopped in my car (VW Jetta) since I get a heck of a lot better gas mileage than Jason's truck. Halfway to Ikea, I turned to Jason and said that it wasn't smart to bring my car. DUH! We knew we would be buying some furniture at Ikea. Oh well, we kept on driving. Well, we ended up purchasing 2 large bookcases and 1 smaller books case, 2 lamps, and a few other small items. Lucikly, we got it all in my car. I was basically riding in the windshield the whole way home, but we made it home safely. We unloaded that stuff and headed to JCPenny's b/c they were having a sale and I had a coupon. We found some curtains for our dining room and a lamp. Without the sale and coupon, our total would've been $360! With the sale and coupon, our total was $111!!!!!! I will have to post pictures of our new items!
So, now we are both back at work, wishing it was the weekend again already!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Whirlwind Weekend
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.
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.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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 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!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
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!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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)
