It's official...

Our Crazy weeks have begun...

Baseball and Softball has kicked into high gear - both kids played on Tuesday.  Soren's game started at 4pm, and Isabella's at 5:30pm - two different ball fields.  Mike is helping coach both teams.  I'm so thankful that Mike go home in time to take Soren to the game.  I got there just in time to see our boys - Army Black Knights take the field.  The first kid got hit by the pitch, 2nd kid popped up and we didn't catch it, so runners on 1st and 2nd ( this is Wildomar AA, which is quite different then regular AA across the country..and our team is young), the next kid pops up - Soren calls it, catches it (now I would have been thrilled just with that play - calling it and catching it...woohoo.)  BUT my cutie little shortstop, ran to 2nd tagged the base and then tagged the runner that had slide in from 1st (again, young teams so the runners ran instead of realizing they had to get back to the bag since it was a pop fly)...Unassisted Triple Play....(and the crowded cheers!!)  It was so great that he was so in the game and played some heads up ball - his smile was priceless.

Well that was enough for me, so I was able to leave to get to Isabella's game...where I "volunteered" to set up a snack bar for our team to earn extra money -which was a SUCCESS!! 

Isabella's 1st game was exciting - Majors is so different then AAA - no run rules, no coach pitch, stealing like crazy.  The 1st inning lasted 1 1/5 minutes...HELLO!!  the other team scored 6 runs (felt like 16), they were hitting our pitcher and our team wasn't making the outs...and the stealing is crazy.  I think it was an eye opener for our girls, especially our catcher (which I was so glad was not Isabella), we came up to bat and I was concerned, their pitcher had a protective mask on her face (I'm thinking we are doomed), well their pitching was not strong and we ended up walking alot, stealing alot and hitting ALOT - scored 19 runs in that very long 1st inning.

Final score 30 to 11...bummer is we only played 3 innings and over 2 hours, so it didn't even count as a game. -UGH!!  Isabella played 2nd base and made a few plays, very proud of that girl.

Snack Bar - lots of work but worth it!!

And last and certainly not least...Coach Mike - I'm so proud of Mike this year, I know that probably sounds silly, but he has really stepped up.  He went to Big Al's training and it really helped him learn more about baseball and softball.  I LOVED having my Dad  as a coach,  the memories I have from that are so special (even when I got yelled at), and I wanted that for our kids.  Mike didn't play ball growing up so he wasn't as comfortable coaching - although he loves to help out with his kids.  This year he is 100% into it and it shows.  He was even coaching 3rd base at Isabella's game, and his loud "GO" can be heard into the stands (and the parents love it).  Way to go LOVE!!

I need to break out some good crock pot recipes for nights like these - we got home at 8:30pm and had to eat and do homework!!

Almost fell off my chair...

I opened my blog to see my previous post and started laughing..boy I really have high expectations of myself...I seriously don't know how these people do it - write a blog post everyday, twitter all day, WORK full time, be a good mom and wife...seriously I bet they don't ever "veg" out on the couch and watch nonsense TV!

Well I have been cooking good dinners for my family lately so I do earn a GOLD star for that...here is what we have been obsessed with ( and when I say "obsessed" I mean Mike can't get enough of it)...it is easy and cheap (the beef/chicken broth is the most expensive) and OH SO GOOD!!  French onion soup.  I made homemade croutons as my bread and just have them floating on top - and put Swiss cheese only on the bottom - infact we only had slices of Swiss, just folding them into pieces...YUM!!

Try it you will like it...

If your family is not the onion loving like mine - serve with Grilled Cheese...who doesn't love grilled cheese?

Stand by...lots of posts coming soon

I have been working on a bunch of new posts..all are saved nicely and need just a few tweeks here and there.  Seriously you would think a unemployed stay home for now mom would be able to bust out at least a post a day...WRONG!!

Lucky 11

Our little angel girl has turned 11!  I can't believe she was ever this little...she is such a blessing and even 11 years later as sweet as she was the day she was born.

She had a wonderful birthday - shopping (spree) at Irvine Spectrum, new Puppy Love fragrance and autograph with Caroline Sunshine "tinka" from Disney's Shake it up, then dinner with the family and surprise guest Riley.  We came home and the Wales' came over to sign and eat the perfect cake that I had made for her.  She also then modeled all her clothes and show the mix and match outfits.

I can't wait to see what the next 11 years brings to my little noodle girl!!

**Funky**

I'm feeling a bit funky lately and unfortunately I don't mean the fun kind of "let's go disco dancing" funk, or "check out my new Jimmy Choo's" funk...I mean the gross kind of UGH funk...sometimes I get AGIDA, which is a good kind of funk because I can snap out of agida quickly. 
I'm not motivated to do anything, which then causes more issues because I procrastinate EVERYTHING....I mean I would stay in my pj's all day if it was possible.  I know that I am the only person that can get me out of this funk so maybe that I'm actually writing it and posting it on my blog for my one friend to read (Hi Shelley), that is the start to getting over this.  I think I'm just getting the Feb blues a bit early...Feb 1st to the 9th are my most dreaded days of the year...but then celebration time when my noodle has a birthday on the 13th.

I know I need make a list and cross things off as I do them and be realistic.  So today my goals are:

Visit my friend "Jim"
Mail package to Shelley - crop challenge crap
Mail pj's to American Girl so Isabella can have the correct size ( that is a year old item)
Organize office

That is alot for one day, because on top of that I still have to do my Cinderella chores, and there are no mice or birds helping out this princess...

Hey I already got to cross 1 thing off - Hooray for me...here I go to get these things done....

Have a great Tuesday! (Shelley)

Gourmet Dinner /Wine Tasting

This is a few years old (notice Cami's long hair), but such a fantastic night...I can watch it over and over (even though I look like chubbette) It is at Larry and Tressa Coco's beautiful home in Temecula.  The Esterholt, Wales and Oursler families did a gourmett dinner/wine tasting evening.  The kids were so awesome and didn't bug us once during the wine tasting.  We are so blessed that all 8 of them get along so well, and Tanner is a trooper as the only "big" kid.  It was almost like a mini weekend vacation...we drank wine, cooked a great dinner, played lots of games in the "game" room, drank more wine, laughed, and enjoyed our life long friendships...I sure hope we do this again really soon (hint, hint).

Hauling Wind...

This is what Mike did all of December...Hauled Wind from Coleman,Texas to Indio, Ca.  He is such a hard working man and great employee.  He "hauled" butt (no pun), and made sure nothing went wrong along the way.  He was able to enjoy himself a bit as well, hanging with his friend Jeff and the owner of the local restaurant in Coleman, eating "scraps" and chatting it up.

  It was hard on the kids for him to be gone for so long, but they made sure they cuddled with him on the weekends when he was home.  Marco flew him home on the 23rd so he could enjoy Christmas and then he was back at it on the 26th. 

He just proves that low bedding is the "special forces" of the trucking industry!

You Rock Love!!