Boys & Baseball

Baseball is such a crazy season, especially with 4 playing ball this year, but it is also SO MUCH FUN!!! John David, Zac and Cooper play for the Sox Organization. John David played for the AA and Zac and Cooper played on the A this year. John David & Zac were pitchers and they also played short stop - they really had a great season and did great! We played Cooper up so he was the youngest on the team so he played in the outfield. He made some great catches and did great at batting as the youngest player:) The boys have so many fun friends on their teams, it is like a little community of families all hanging out at the park, and really it is so much fun. I am a little tired of eating Nachos, Chicken Sandwiches, Hot Dogs, Sour Skittles & Popcorn but oh well, a little junk is good for the trunk:) This was Walkers first year to play any sport and he did a great job! He was on the Cardinals team. He batted well for his first time ever on pitching machine. It was crazy to spend every night at the ball park but my boys LOVE IT!! I know these years will fly by too quickly so I try real hard not to wish these crazy times away:) I am blessed!!

John David as "Daddy Warbucks"

John David decided to try out for Annie this year in 4th grade. It was the first school play our school, Don Roberts, ever had and all the kids (and teachers) did an AMAZING job!! I had no idea John David was going to try out for the play. He just came home one day from school and told me he tried out and that he was Daddy Warbucks!! WHAT?? That is great! I was so proud of him, but wait - baseball?? John David, you might have a baseball game that night. How are we going to do play practices and baseball games & practices for 4 boys. We did it and John David memorized all his lines all on his own and we didn't have a baseball game on the night of the performance!! He did such a great job and I am so proud that he just wants to be involved in every kind of activity, weather in sports or in the arts:)

At the end of the play, with all the cast singing, "Your never fully dressed without a SMILE!" Look at my cute little boys smile. So proud of him:)

Crazy & Fun Mollie!!!

First of all, so sorry it has taken me so long to update exciting happenings in my family. I have been crazy busy and this Blog tends to just fall on the back burner. Now that it is finally summer, hopefully I will be better about writing:)
Today as I was getting milk for Mollie Kate (because she asked me for some), and then she never drank a sip of it. So, I decided to put the milk back in the refrigerator so it would stay good until she decided she was thirsty again - you would do that too, right? Then out of no where, with her "pappie" in her mouth she looked at me and said,
"What the heck?" Ummm, excuse me? I couldn't believe that came out of my little girls mouth! But then I realized - wow! you have been around Walker waay too much!! That is all Walker says these days and Mollie Kate thinks Walker hung the moon!!! (can I say that is an understatement)? Another "word" Mollie Kate is real into saying is to call someone a "meanie". Once again, getting that from big brother, Walker. With 4 big brothers, NO TELLIN' what word will come out of my sweet precious baby:)