Memorial Day/Bend Tourney

We are off to a tournament in Bend for the weekend. We play 2 games today and 2 games tomorrow for sure (Sunday morning 8 AM, I'm excited!!) We only play on Monday if we will all 4 games. We are heading over soon, looks like it will be a great weekend for baseball. Last year we were rained on and rained out of a game, doesn't look like that will happen this year.......Will post results when we get home (maybe :D)

Here is a pic of Drake catching, he looks so small and like a robot in his gear!!
Here's another picture of him........oh wait, that is actually Gunner!!
He decided at practice one night to try being catcher. He has started every game bue one so far (he missed the game he didn't start in). This pic was at the tournament in Tigard. I was really proud of him, for never catching in a game before he did awesome.

Ok, off to bend!! Have a good safe weekend, whatever you may be doing!

Happy Mother's Day to one and all.....

It was a great Mother's Day/Baseball weekend. Drake's team hosted a 8 team baseball tournament here in Lebanon. There were some great plays and awesome baseball. Lebanon won both games yesterday, but unfortunately we lost both games today. Both games today though were pretty tough games and we lost only by the home team having last at bat. They were good games, real nail biters!! We ended up taking 4th, the team that took 1st, was our first loss today and they had to battle to get that win! Drake did take a ball to the leg when he was batting in the 2nd game, so he ended up not catching/playing the rest of the game. I think we counted though and in the last 2 days he caught about 20 innings, that's alot!!

The weather was great, the fields were awesome, the crowd was great (except for one team, whom we won't mention for being poor sports!) and our parents on our team are "da bomb!" Everyone came together, did what they need to do and it was a very successful weekend. Sold ALOT of hotdogs!!!

Well, I am beat, sunburned and need to read the newspaper. Happy Mother's Day, hope everyone had a good one!

Here is a pic of me and my boys!! Gotta Luv'm, are they not the cutest!

Completed UFO'S -- have to show them off.....

While I was on my government paid vacation, I had posted about UFO's. Before I went back to work I had wanted to finish a couple of quilts. Partly because they needed to be done and partly because I wanted to make myself a quilt for baseball and could not start it until I finished the other one's. Here are some pics (gotta show off)....

When Angela was pregnant, she did not know if she was having a boy or a girl and bought fabric for either. She had bought enough material that I was able to make 2 blue/brown and 2 pink/brown quilts. The first pink/brown quilt she actually got when Emma was about 2 months old (that is pretty good for me!) The 2nd pink quilt, she got on Emma's 1st Birthday, here is a pic of it......
Then I had the 2 blue/brown ones, one of which I need to get to Angela so she can put it away for the next one (no, not trying to start any rumors, I don't know anything HEHEHE), here are the 2 blue/brown ones......

I feel all good about completing these and then decide I need to make my baseball quilt. I buy the material and since I need to get over my fat quarter fetish, I bought 1/2 of the fabric, WELLLL, that give me enough to make 2 quilts, SOOOOOO, I start to make 2. Drake's baseball team is hosting a tournament this weekend and we are having a raffle, so I decided to donate one of the quilts for the raffle (I hope it does well). Here is a pic of the one I am donating (the colors did not come out that great because it was dark when I took the pics)
this is the one I am keeping for myself.
They are both lap size, so perfect for cuddling (the other ones above were crib size).

Because at games I always have a blanket, snacks, camera, water, unfortunately an umbrella, I needed a bag to carry it in. I made this tote bag for me....isn't it cute!! Well, it has now been filled with "snacks" and donated to the raffle as well. I guess I need to make a new one for me!! I hope the items go well at the raffle...........and yes, I am pretty darn proud of myself.......mostly because I actually finished them and didn't add them to the UFO pile! :D

I've been tagged (#8)

Dear sweet sista has tagged me, so here it goes......... (good picture huh?!)

8 Things I Look Forward To...(No particular order)
1) Sunday Morning Newspaper
2) Going Camping
3) Reading a good book
4) Watching the kids play baseball (basketball, football, whatever)
5) A Sunny Summer Day with nothing planned
6) Sleeping IN
7) PayDay :D
8) Spending time with my family

8 Things I Did Yesterday
1) Had a dreaded conference call
2) Shuttled kids to and fro for practice
3) Helped buy "stuff" for baseball tournament
4) Showed off 2 quilts and a tote bag I made
5) Went to lunch with a friend
6) Made someone's day
7) went searching all over Lebanon for damn Little Debbie's Brownies!!
8) Did Laundry (yeah for me!)

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
1) go on a tropical vacation
2) have everyone all get along
3) Have a good hair day everyday
4) Wear a Wonderbra
5) Make a perfect pot of coffee
6) Freeze time at certain moments that you never want to end
7) Lose Weight
8) Not "have" to work

8 Shows I watch:
1) House
2) Survivor
3) Hell's Kitchen
4) Top Chef
5) Real Housewives (all of them except NY)
6) Private Practice
7) Grey's Anatomy
8) Amazing Race

There, I followed the rules, but I have no one to tag :(, but atleast I played along!

April Showers......

Bring May Flowers......

Ok, there are 2 things wrong with that statment. First it is no longer April and 2nd, I don't see no damn flowers!! Plus, it is baseball season man!

We had a tournament last weekend for Drake in Reedville and this weekend in Tigard for Gunner (in fact we play again at 2:00 P.M. today and will keep playing if we keep winning), but I will post highlights and stuff for both later because it will be a long post.

BUT, yesterday, Gunner played at about 3:00ish, about 3:30ish it started sprinkling, fine, we are on a turf field. Then, holy cow, the skies opened up and DUMPED!!! Mark and I and some other parents were sitting in the football stadium, so we stayed dry. We had buckets of rain, hail, thunder and lighting for about 20 minutes.

Here are a couple of pics of the rain, from the football stadium looking back towards the field and the dugouts....

Yes, it was raining that hard!!!Definitely not baseball weather!!!