When does football start?????? These 8pm games are getting old! Austin's team is 8 and 6. He did well last night during a game. He started at pitcher and pitched 2 innings, almost had a no-hitter for both except for 1 guy who just had to get on 1st base! He also hit like a mad man. We took the face plate off his helmet and what a dfference it made! He can actually see the ball! His words were " Dude, I can see the whole field!" He played center field and short stop as well. He was tired because his school had field day yesterday and his face looked like a lobster! We have signed up for a select football team (it's select because it ain't cheap!) and it will start in August. Austin has also signed up to play the trombone next year. Band is a part of school (a class) in 6th grade and he can't wait to get his instrument! We are renting one to make sure he wants to play it long-term.
Cameron has started t-ball and is learning all about how to throw the ball and use his glove. He really likes it, especially so he can be just like his "bubba". He had a long weekend, he went to Arkansas to visit his other family. He's getting to be a real talkative little fella, so much so that I sometimes have to tell him that he needs to let his tongue rest a little so it will feel better. He doesn't buy that and just tells me "no mom, my tongue's not tired, it feels good" I may look into acting or advertising for him, he's quite the ham lately! He makes us laugh quite often!
Only 4 more days of school! Yesssssssss! I think I can hold on to my sanity for that long!

Baseball baseball!

Austin had a great weekend! His baseball league held a Pitch, Hit and Run competition on Saturday. We got a call this morning around 10am telling us that he was the all-around champion for his division! In addition to that, he was also the Hit champion and the Run champion! (He got the best scores in hitting and running) So today we went to Rockwall and participated in the regional competition and he placed 2nd overall for his division! However, only the 1st place gets to advance, which meant a national competition held at Texas Rangers stadium! He was bummed (only because he wanted to go to Texas Rangers Stadium), but I think he did very well! He missed out on going with Uncle Justin to an FC Dallas soccer game that he was looking forward to seeing in order to participate today, but he gave it his best and I was very proud of him! Cameron learned that throwing dirt from the baseball fields on windy days can be hazardous to yourself! He did pretty good today considering we were out there for 3 hours! Not much other news going on here, trying to hang on until school's out. We went to a festival this weekend and had a picture taken like they were on the front cover of the Rollin' Stone Magazine that I will try to attach if I can, it was pretty cute!

OK, I'm posting!

OK, I was told that I don't blog much, so I needed to add something. However, I have misplaced my compac flash for my camera so I won't be able to add any photos until I find it, which may be after school gets out!

Austin is busy playing baseball and learning how to become a true "tween" He seems to be getting that 'mouth' on him, and getting grounded more frequently and having those "games" etc. taken away! I think he's ready for school to be out, as we all are. Piano is about to come to an end. He just doesn't have the drive to practice anymore and I'm not paying $20 per lesson for him to play the same songs over and over because he refuses to memorize them (or says he can't)! He wants to take band next year. His instrument of choice is either trumpet or drums/percussion. So, we'll see how that turns out! He will be going to Kanakuk Kamp the last week of June. He's looking forward to it and I hope he will be able to get a lot out of it, bring it back and carry it with him as he matures. He was sick today with fever headache and stomach ache. He was at school until about noon today, when the fever came.

Cameron is becoming quite the communicator. He definitly has the gift of gab. He's learning great stuff at his school and tells me about it every day. He will be taking swimming lessons starting in June and I think we might be able to do some t-ball for most of the season before he has to do visitation with his dad. Both are through the Y here and are good programs. We still don't know about when he will be with his dad this summer.

We welcomed a new neice/cousin on April 23, Caroline, she looks a lot like her sister! Cameron and I got to see her after she was just a few hours old! She's a cutie!

Not much else going on here, we're ready for school to be out, our last day is June 4 (I'm supposed to go June 5) and that seems like a late day for school to be getting out, I guess since we started in AR, but TX started about 8-10 days later, we really are going longer this year since we get out later doen here in TX, it seems like this year has been really long! Lots of changes went on this past year, but now that we're more settled I think things will be better, heck, they already are!