Tis the season for some baseball

Both boys are playing baseball this spring. Cade's team played in a tournament already and Parker's team starts after spring break. Cade's team plays in Edmond where Parker's team will play most of his games (except a few tournaments) in Stillwater. I guess that means Carey and I will be split between the two boys when they have games the same night. I don't know how people raise 3 or 4 kids and maintain their sanity! In addition to baseball, they are also doing freestyle wrestling. They hope to wrestle a couple of tournaments when they don't have a baseball tournament. I started looking at my calendar from last year and realized that since August we've had 4 free weekends. Isn't that crazy? I've said this before but I'm so ready for my boys to decide which two sports they want to play and just play them. My luck they will both pick two different sports. Now that I've written a paragraph complaining about how busy we are I really should say that my favorite past time is watching my boys play sports. Honestly, with exception of a few weekend boating at the lake, my favorite thing to do is watch them play their sports. It's so exciting my two little boys develop into athletic young men. With a score book in one hand and a Kleenex in the other I sit in my lawn chair and cheer them on. The pictures I added are of Cade playing second base and the other is of Parker playing for the mudcats last year.

Happy Birthday Lil Man

Today is my nephew's birthday. He is 10... double digits! I can't believe it was just 10 short years ago I waddled my pregnant self up to the second floor of the hospital to see your cute chubby cheeks! You have grown into a lil man that we are so proud to call part of our family. Here's hoping you have a great birthday.

I feel the beginning of summer....

Cade's baseball team play their first tournament in Edmond this weekend. Actually we've only played pool play which determines your seed for the tournament tomorrow. Our team is very young, some haven't ever played coach pitch. This league uses a pitching machine instead of the coach pitching the ball to their own players. It delivers the ball about 35mph. That seems really fast for a 6 years old. My child is the only 6 year old out there and he looks SO SMALL! I took pictures but haven't downloaded them. That will be my focus for next week. Cade did a great job. He got a hit 4-5 at bats, scored once, and scored an RBI. Parker had practice in Stillwater and was invited to spend the night with a friend. He was really looking forward to spending time with his friend. Wish us luck on tomorrow game!

5+ miles, baseball, and blog neglect

So I've once again neglected the blog. Since I'm primary writing to Megan I've considered just quitting the upkeep of the blog and just send her a weekly email. Although, summer is right around the corner and I hope to have a variety of content to write about. Something to ponder....

I ran 5.5 miles today! YIPEE... I wanted to just march on to 6 but I was spent! Two weeks ago I ran 5 so I'm hoping my next run will push me over the 6 mile marker. My time was nothing to brag about, so i won't even comment about it. However I think it is close to Megan's finishing time for her 10k. That means I would be 1/2 mile behind Megan when she finished her last 10k. I will have to look that up.

Baseball season is here and we jumped in running. Both of the boys teams started practice before we were done with wrestling. Cade has a tournament this weekend in Edmond. Although I was bummed about a tournament this weekend, due to the fact that it falls on Big 12 wrestling weekend, the bright side is there's always shopping in Edmond. :-)

Regional Runner Up @ 49lbs

My little baby looks so grown up in this picture. He is going to state as a number 2 seed in his weight class. This past weekend Stillwater hosted the Open Northwest Regional for youth wrestling. Cade has already placed 4th at state at OKWA Novice State in Lawton. Since Carey and I had to help with the tournament that was hosted here last weekend we decided to let him wrestle with the open kids just to see how he would do. Much to our surprise he beat the #1 seed in the second round and ended up getting second place. This has given him the opportunity to wrestle as a #2 seed at Open State in Tulsa this weekend!!! He is nervous, anxious, worried but so excited. Regardless of how he does we are so proud of our little man.

Working on the bucket list

I ran 4.5 miles! I took Megan's advice and quit worrying about pace and just decided to see how far I could go. I ran 4 miles a few months ago so I knew I could do it, it's just mental. Surprisingly it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I made myself run R-E-A-L-L-Y slow so when I got to my 3 mile mark I felt really good. I had to run my last mile uphill which sucked really bad but then my last 1/2 mile flattened out and I knew I was so close to my car. Now if I can make myself add a little to that distance every week I should be ready for my 10K... YIPPEE. Thanks to Megan's support and encouragement I'll soon get to check that off my bucket list.

One proud Momma!

Pictures: Top Left Cade on the stage, 4th place. Top Right: Parker on the stage, 6th place. Bottom picture: Cade and his favorite coach, Chad. They just finished playing the Mario Bros on the DS.

I hate to brag but I have the best kids in the world. We spent our weekend in Lawton for OKWA Novice State Tournament. This tournament was huge - a similar tournament to Tulsa Nationals a few weeks ago.

Parker and his coach decided to drop down to the next weight class. He usually wrestles 76lb and he dropped down to 73lb. Three pounds doesn't sound like very much but for a 9 year old... kind of a big deal! I have to applaud Parker for extreme discipline in his diet for 5 days. He ate like he was competing in Mr. Fitness. Of course that meant I had to fix 3 very healthy edible meals for him every day plus snacks. This also meant packing coolers for trips and having a sensible solution ready to eat for melt downs. The three pound drop made a huge difference because Parker won his first two matches beating his opponents by a total of 10-3. Parker wrestled five times throughout the day (which was a 12 hour day... no kidding) and ended up placing 6th. Not bad, huh?

Cade - Cade - Cade.... he is such a unique child. I find myself at a loss for words when I try to describe him. He is such a perfect blend of both Carey and myself. He has Carey's drive to accomplish goals with my out-look on life. Cade had 30+ kids in his bracket. He went into this tournament with complete confidence of placing 1-6. He told me, "I know I can beat almost all these kids." Cade won his first 4 matches putting him in the semi finals. He lost in the semi finals in the last 20 seconds. He ended up taking 4th place. Cade placed in every tournament except one this year. He broke his arm during the season and came back to get 4th in the STATE... one word... AMAZED!

Both the boys have learned and grown so much. They make me so proud by showing such strength in situations that are so difficult. They are my pride and joy!