Summerslam tournament

Our first tournament of 3 for the next 3 weekends was this weekend. Summerslam sponsored by Thunder. We had our first game Friday night (a loss) but Gracie had a GREAT game!! If she would only be aggressive going after the ball and actually throw it instead of chasing the runner down! (which occassionally does work!) Since we lost our first game, we had to play at 9 Saturday morning! =( We played against the swing sisters and won!






Getting ready to bat!

Here she is on defense! doesn't she look excited!

Our next game was at 12 so we had some time to kill............face painting...........

Everyone on our team was waiting on Margaret!

Strike a pose!

This was so a waste of $1! but I couldn't let my baby not get hers done too!

Bean bag toss...............coach jay vs. coach jerred............




It's getting hot...........hot............hot

We ended up playing a total of 4 games saturday!! Our girls fought their way out of the losers bracket to finish 3rd! We are soooo proud of these girls!

Elana, Gracie, Jaylin, Abigail, Riley, Maddie, Sophia, Madi, Abby, Brittyn, and Macey!

Woo_hoo!!! 3rd place might as well be first to these girls!!

We ended our day of games and went and ate a little dinner, went and picked up the little monkey, and finally home by 10:00! Next weekend we get to do it all over................

Treats and a visitor........

Thanks to Amy at http://www.faith-love-hope.com/ , we made some fruity popsicles. I think they turned out pretty good! We did watermelon, strawberries, and pineapple juice because that's what we had. We will be making more fruit popsicles this summer! Especially since I found popsicle molds that actually pull the popsicle out still attached to the stick!


Jadyn the popsicle goes in your mouth, not your finger! Lol!

Helping daddy mow...............

and for our visitor.............we have several apple trees in our yard. They are green sour apples that really are too good unless you bake with them. Oh, and the deer like them!

Hope you all have a good weekend! We have a softball tournament this weekend............it's going to be HOT!

Garvan Woodland GArdens May 2010

Garvan Gardens

We have been taking Gracie to Garvan Gardens since she was 6 months old. We missed a year or two after Jadyn was born, but I thought it would be neat to show these.



Ok, this first one I scanned and it looks TERRIBLE!! But I can't find my picture cd with these pictures on it. =( Here she is at 6 months...............



One year............

Two years...........

and this one is sideways.........ugh...........3 years.........

5 1/2 years.................

pretty neat, huh?

Look at what we have............

Eggs!! Finally! We were starting to think we have defective chickens!!

Now, we only have to convince Gracie that the eggs are for eating,and we are not saving them to have more baby chickens! = )

Our crazy busy insane weekend

We were super busy this weekend! I don't even think that begins to describe it! First of all, this little guy made his appearance Friday afternoon! Meet my nephew, Alex William. He was 6 pounds and 10 ounces, 19 inches long. Congrats to my little brother and Bridgette!!

Friday night and Saturday we played in a softball tournament. We played against the top two teams in our division. It wasn't pretty, but we did learn A LOT and it showed in our last game we played on Saturday where we were AHEAD! But some of the other teams girls can hit the ball into the outfield and that really hurt us in the end!

We won third place ( out of 3 teams) but our girls didn't know the difference! They all got medals and was really excited about our trophy!

Gracie accepting her medal!

This is one of the many Thunder coaches, and here he is handing over our trophy and telling our girls that they played a REALLY good game!

I took some pictures of the girls batting, and let me just say it was very hard to keep up with this little girl at the same time! She is everywhere, and not afraid of anything! So, if you are at the ball park and you see this little girl running around without her momma, she belongs to me and send her back. It takes her about .2 seconds to run off! She is going to be the death of me, I just know it!

This girl knows how to pose................

I don't really remember what this meltdown was for................there was so many of them!

"momma, take jadyn's picture"

Gracie and Abigail

Easter 2010

The Easter bunny left us two little surprises ..............meet Lucy (with Gracie) and Pauly (with Jadyn)! We somehow managed to get a boy and a girl..............oops! So, soon you may see me advertising for bunnies! LOL!



Gracie loves to pose!

Jadyn was an egg hunting pro this year!!

My two beautiful girls!

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!!

Gracie's Art Show

Way in the back of Jadyn's closet is Gracie's Princess dress she wore to her first birthday party. Gracie got it out and put it on. Amazingly the only thing wrong with it was that it was too short. I thought it would be interesting to show her wearing it at the age of ONE and the age of FIVE! I remembered that Gracie had NO hair at this age, but it is shocking to see!

Gracie November 2005
Gracie March 2010

HA!!

When Gracie gets her mind set on something she wants to do she works hard on it! She decided to have an art show and drew a bunch of pictures. I hung them up, and she walked around and put "thank you" stickers on all the kids artwork. It was so funny because when all the parents were about to come she made some "juice" and had some cheese out for them. Her "juice" was water, gatorade, fresca, some orange juice squeezed in, some grapes, and her secret ingredient........white sugar.

So, please enjoy her art show and all her hard work and be thankful you don't have to drink her "juice"!