Baseball

What a year of baseball it has been! Let's see...Chandler started playing in Feb for his middle school team. They had a great year and came in 3rd in the city/county tournament. Of course we were upset they didn't win it because they really could/should have but that's the way it goes. He had a great year playing catcher and received the defensive award at their sports banquet. His coach told how many innings he played (I don't remember) with no errors. Right after that season was over, he started playing with a travel ball team and they played a few tournaments from April-July. This was no so fun. Lots of rain delays and rain outs. When they did play, they did well except for the last tournament in July in Panama City. They stunk it up there!

He also played for his future HIGHSCHOOL team, Northridge, in their summer ball program. This involved workouts everyday at 11am at the highschool and then practice later that day and about 2-3 games a week. Thank goodness for my mother in law who helped out a ton with the transportation! This was fun and they did well. Chandler was able to pitch more than he ever did with middle school and he did really well. Other than that, he played catcher of course. I think we are really going to enjoy this team in the spring but it sure will help when he can drive himself! So, we went from watching games in the freezing, freezing cold to the burning up hot!

Hudson played this year at Kentuck and Richard was his coach. Their team did not do so well. Hudson had a good year and was able to play some different positions. Richard had the opportunity to coach the 2nd all star team again and stupidly said yes. They played in 3 tournaments and didn't do really great in any of them but they had a good time and loved the traveling. It was a good opportunity for Hudson to meet new people that we haven't played with before and he really improved on his hitting and had some great defensive plays. We went to Chattanooga, TN for the world series and they had a blast. Again, lots of rain outs and rain delays and that was frustrating but as long as they got to swim at the hotel, they didn't care!

A picture our sweet friend, Shelby, took of herself. :) Too cute not to share!

I just love Evan's shirt with her accessories to make it somewhat fit! And, no I can't get a picture of her without that "pappy" in her mouth!

So funny! Richard bought this mustache in a gumball machine! I told Chan he was porn star fabulous!

The little sisters of the ballpark. These girls loved entertaining Evan and were so sweet!

I love baseball and the time it gives us together as a family! I hope my boys always love it and always want to play. Richard is hoping Evan is a softball player!