The Championship Game

Chris and the boys before the Championship game

Josh with his trophy

some of the boys after the game

taken right before he got the last out of the game

the Cardinals!

After months and months of hitting (BP), fielding, washing uniforms daily, vacuuming red dirt (that miraculously follows everyone who has been within a 100 yards of the baseball field even when they leave their shoes outside), eating sno cones that count as dinner, etc. baseball ended on Saturday! I don't think we quite know what to do with the time ... evenings having dinner together (what is that?), Saturdays together without practices all day?, no extra batting practice with Dad? Who are these people that have claimed to be living in my house for the past 4 months? I seem to only recognize them in uniform!!

We had two wonderful seasons. Josh had a winning season and lost in the first round of playoffs. He played most games at short stop and loved it. He is extremely tough and has the heart of an athlete. Caleb's team won the championship for his division. Caleb struggled batting this year but played incredible defense as the team's second baseman. In fact, in the championship game with bases loaded and two outs and two strikes he stopped a hard hit ball and threw the runner out at first. Game over ... what a win!! The score was 4-0.

I hate to admit that I am going to miss seeing all of my baseball friends and cheering for my kids every night... until next year that is.