Hat trick! and other highlights.

We've been buried with spring sport games and practices lately - maybe why I've been behind on the blogging.  We missed updating you on Chris' 40th birthday, Easter and other goodies. I'll do a bit of catch up over the next few days but first a few sports updates:

Ben = soccer, Andrew = Baseball, Nicholas = gym playgroup. It really is a whole lot of fun.




Today we enjoyed our first outdoor soccer game for the spring season.  Ben usually plays defense but today he got an opportunity to play offense (forward).  He scored 3 goals!  He may get more chances in the future.  The final score was 4/2 gladiators. Yeah Ben!!!  Before the game Chris promised Ben a cartwheel if he scored a goal. I wonder if this motivation had anything to do with the hat trick?  Ben is waiting for Chris to pay up.  PAY UP CHRIS!

A few weeks back we headed to Vegas for a 3 game baseball tournament for Andrew's Spartan team.  Andrew's team is beginning to gel after an entire winter of indoor practices.  Andrew pitched and played first base.  He pitched around 120 over the weekend, a bit too much, but did really well. His arm was sore.


I signed Nicholas up for a few different sports playgroups.  This month is "gym" games.  He is learning to play well with others and follow directions. Freeze tag is a hard concept - that boy just wants to RUN!

Loving the life of a boys mom. Did I mention it's cold watching spring sports? Hmmm.


Blogging time - road trip pictures





















OK - it's high time I sat down and actually blogged from our home computer instead of my phone. I downloaded the photos the boys took from their trip (17 GB) and enjoyed touring the country via digital photo. Here are a just few highlights. The photos from the trip are front loaded as it seems they grew tired of snapping pictures of the second half of the trip (nothing from mammoth caves, baseball games or camp sites). I will only share a few wildlife photos with you but if you are interested Benjamin took many of a shot of buffalo, chip monks, antelope and other wildlife. He is a pretty good little photographer. My favorite photo is the buffalo with 5 birds perched on it's back. I also only decided to share one animal dung photo with you. Realize these are boys gone wild with the camera... I decided not to crop or edit the photos so you can see them as they were captured. Fun stuff.

FENWAY PARK

We arrived at Fenway this afternoon and watched batting practice near the Green Monster. I haven't been to Fenway for a baseball game since 1991. It's great to be back with our boys.