Baseball, Baseball, and More Baseball

I don't know about you, but we received a lot of rain in April and May causing a crazy baseball season for us.

With 5 children playing baseball, a lot of rain meant a lot of make-up games for us and even a few doubleheaders. In the month of June we lived at the baseball field. Our calendar was filled with baseball for 22 straight days. The season began without games on Sunday and as we neared the end of the season we were running straight from church to the ball field. It was crazy, but crazy fun too!

Sometimes we even had two games going at the same time, and I'd run back and forth trying to catch everyone bat or field the ball.

The weather did get better and who can complain when you're watching baseball and you have a view of the mountains in the background? It makes you slow down a little and appreciate the beautiful scenery that God has created for us.

Because we love baseball so much one team just wasn't enough for  Thomas. It just so happened that some dear friends of ours were playing in a tournament near our house and they were short a few players. They asked Thomas to join them and he had a blast! With a few more games on the schedule Thomas ended up moving in with them for a few days. These boys are like long lost brothers. They know how to get into a lot of trouble together.

Since Thomas got to go home with his buddies they kidnapped Rachel (and Rebecca) too! It was only slightly quieter in our home for those few days. ;)

Since Little League baseball wasn't enough for us we hit up a Rockies' game with our St. Louis Cardinal loving friends.

The outcome was fabulous considering I went to the game with very low expectations. I mean come on, the Rockies were near the bottom of the barrel in baseball and the Cardinals were probably going to go to the playoffs again.

Guess what? The Rockies won! It was a great game if I do say so myself. 

What made the game even better was that we got to hang out with our sweet friends at the same time. It will definitely be a memorable game for years to come. I'll never let you forget it, Mandy. ;)

Opening Day

Both of our boys really wanted to play baseball this year. Opening day just happened to be the day before Easter, when there were a million things going on at church, which meant that my husband missed the boys' first games, however, because of today's technology I was able to text a bunch of photos to him, so it was like he was there, kind of. Thomas played in one of the first games of the day and it started off with the national anthem blaring over the loudspeakers.

Thomas played a little third base. As a lefty, I couldn't be more proud.

He made some pretty good plays, but also took a ball in the eye. He's a tough kid and it didn't even phase him.

Hey batter, batter.

Look at the determination on his face. I love it!

He hits the ball out of the infield quite often these days.

David plays t-ball and his game began just after Thomas's game ended. How's that for a morning at the ball field?

David started his career at first base and I must say he did pretty well. 

His first hit off the tee was a solid one.

Go David, go!

He also played a little third base and even got a ball hit to him.

Baseball is in full swing now and we've really enjoyed watching the boys get better and better in each game!