Father's Day and a little ball played

Beau, Brenley and Brian celebrated Donuts with Dad at Northridge on Friday. Not sure who was more excited for the time.  The kids had precious cards waiting for him and enjoyed every minute of having their dad share part of their day with them. Beau got to go into Bren's room to eat with her. Another excitement for all of them.

And now we are wrapping up Father's Day weekend, with a little extra sun and some tired eyes and bodies.  It was a great, albeit busy weekend.  Beau began a weekend tournament Friday night at 5:30.  That game produced a win so we played again Saturday at 12:30.  So after swim lessons for Bren at 8:30 and a protein breakfast, we headed out.

I would say Bren was prepared for the heat, and looking might cute to boot!

Saturday's game produced a tie ballgame (which they allow in pool play) so we took our tie game and headed home, pretty confident that we were first in our pool, which meant our first actual bracket play started Sunday again at 12:30.

So we went home and decided the neighborhood swimming pool was in our future. We spent some time there and ended with a pizza party at home.

Sunday morning came and it brought Father's Day with it!  Yeah.  We love our Daddy. So we opened gifts, ate breakfast, and headed to the ball field......again.  It was mighty hot, but our #1 Tiger fan was there again in her glory, and the boys were ready to play.

 It was a very close game, but we won, which meant we were in the championship game. About 30 minutes later we began play, only to get defeated in extra innings.

Beau Grant played an AWESOME couple games with big hits, and only feet away from hitting a homer.    So proud of our big boy.  And here are some pictures of our Daddy and his Tigers.  

Happy Father's Day to our Daddy, and my Daddy (who is so terrific!) and all the other wonderful father's out there!

Start to Summer

Well, it seems like we haven't done much of anything, but then again, not sure where the time is going!  But to regress just a tiny bit....this is what Beau looked like at the end of his second grade year. My handsome big boy!  I hope you have a great summer!

Speaking of summer, Beau is still playing ball. We have a tournament this next week (Father's Day weekend) and have four more regular season games. So between that and practice, he and his Dad stay busy.

Both kids started swim lessons.  Beau still quite hasn't learned everything he needs, but he really has come a long way. I hope he gets something from his lessons. And Sis. Well, Sis really likes the water and can rock her Hello Kitty swimsuit!

Both kids are enjoying their fun days at Northridge.  Bren comes home with her toenails and fingernails painted a new color every day. And it is really good!  I'm secretly a little jealous of her daily manicures!

The ice cream truck came to visit last Wednesday and Brian asked Beau if he was going to get an ice cream sandwich and Brenley said, "Ice Cream Sandwich?  What?  You don't put ice cream in a sandwich! That's silly!" All said with a furrowed brow (gotta get a picture of that someday!).

We also just had a garage sale this past weekend. We finally sold furniture that we have had since our single days!  Crazy, I know. But someone just couldn't let go of his beloved long brown couch and not sure why I held onto to certain things either! Memories, I guess. But after 10 years.....it's probably time to say goodbye.

We sold a lot of big stuff. It was awesome. Such a great sale on Friday, there was no need for me to be open on Saturday! Even better!  And funny story here is that I kept asking Beau if he wanted to sell some of his toys and that if he did, he could keep the money for them. He kept saying no, he didn't have anything. But low and behold Friday morning before leaving for NRA, when he saw everything out on tables.....he said "Mom, can I go in and get some old toys?"   I was like, "sure, and here are the price stickers to tag them with."  I got busy with something else and when I turned around he said, "Mom, here you go." And I look down to find a Nerf football for $20 ("It lights up", he says, "it's worth more"). Then another little ball was $10.  And well, you get the idea.  So he left and I re-priced them. He was excited that I sold everything, but disappointed when I told him he only made $10. "But Mom, what happened to the $20 football?" Guess we have some lessons to teach in value and how much things cost. ha ha  Sweet boy, though. Just trying to earn a dollar!

So there ya have it.  Quick rundown of our summer so far.  We were putting everything on the calendar yesterday and there are few open weekends now through school starting in August.  Hopefully a camera will be by my side to capture each precious minute!