JUNE! What a Month!

Wow! Could June be any more busy? We started the month out ending our Spring ball season. We learned that Dylan made All-stars and Donnie would be the head coach. We did not know so much went into such a short time. It was a great experience and we met some wonderful people. We practiced for two weeks straight and in the mix of that we had Vacation Bible School, our 8 year anniversary, and our annual beach trip with the Cleary's. Our family and 25 other friends of ours went to Myrtle Beach. We had a great time. The weather was beautiful and the kids really enjoyed themselves. Donnie ate crab legs everynight, but one. The food was great and the hotel was fabulous. We came home a day early for one last practice before our All-star games started. Games started on Sat. the 21st we played a team from Parkview and won, Sun. we played Grayson blue and won, Monday we had a buy, Tuesday we played Grayson Gold and won, Wednesday we were exhausted and played Grayson blue again, but this time lost, Thursday We played Grayson blue for the third time and won, Friday we played Grayson gold and lost due to some major home cooking. The ump's were horrible. They made not 1 or 2, but 5 horrible calls on their favor. Our kids were upset because they knew what had happened, but unfortunatly it is a life lesson. We are so proud of all the boys they played 6 games in 7 days and never gave up or complained. They did awesome! We took home the second place trophey and our team also took home the sportsmanship trophey! All the coaches were great as were the kids and their parents. (Go Newton National!) We are going to have the boys a huge pool party in July.

Donnie celebrated his 33rd birthday today. The boys and I took him out for lunch (Japenese) and then we went shopping and he bought the boys new baseball gloves and Dylan a Georgia Bulldogs t-shirt (Go Dawgs). For dinner my mom, dad, pawpaw, grandmother, the boys, Donnie, and I went to Red Lobster for more crablegs (Donnie cannot eat enough)! For his birthday I framed two of his college baseball jersey's and hung them in his sports room in the basement. He also got a couple of dry fit polo shirts. He racked up.

Dylan and Donnie are in the fourth of July parade Friday morning for All-stars. Dylan is excited and Dawson is mad because he wants to be on the float too. I told him we will see it from the side of the road, but he wants to be in the middle of all the action.

Speaking of Dawson he learned to swim the last day we were at the beach. No more floaties (Yeah)! He is getting to be such a big boy. We went swimming at some friends in our neighborhood the other day and he had to show them how he could jump off the diving board with no floats on his arms. He was trying to impress a girl (like father, like son). My baby will be 5 next week. I cannot believe it. It seems like yesterday he was a newborn. They grow up way to fast. He will start K5 in a month and Dylan will start 2nd grade. Man time flies when your having fun.