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!!