It's Baseball Season...

...And this is what my boy's having been doing in their spare time for the past few weeks...and not one of them has an ounce of talent at it, which is a very good thing! :)

The Winning Weekend

It began Saturday morning...

Caeden had his second basketball game of the season against a team from another elementary school in our district. The previous week Caeden's team had been soundly trounced by the other team from our own school - we won't say it's loaded but...how is it the same kids always end up on the same team?!


This time it was evenly matched - back and forth across the floor. A few elbows - a couple of crashes later...his team won 28-20.

Onto the next event...

Cameron had a wrestling tournament at his school. Five teams - he wrestled four times. He pinned every opponent and his team won the tournament.



Finally - Sunday...

The last day of wrestling for Jackson - the medal tournament. Basically a wrestle-off between four kids in the same weight class. Medals were awarded for each placing.

I think he's found his sport...

Friday Night Lights...

We are not a basketball family. It's just not our sport. We don't play it or watch it - even though we have the required suburban hoop in our driveway.

Yes - we have put Caeden into a basketball league for the winter, but that's just to keep him active. He's in it to goof around with his friends.

Last night was elementary school night for our high school basketball team. The mania of football Friday's gives way to the winter version - only warmer and dryer.

There are four elementary school's in our town. When we arrived we were told to sit with our school in the lower half of one section. The other three schools took up three more section halfs. Four schools took up one eighth of the seating for the gym.

As we squeezed into the only seats left for our section, we looked across at the completely empty stands across the gym. No - we couldn't go there because we had to be with our school for school spirit night!

Thank God high school games don't have time-outs like NBA games...you know - 5 minutes on the clock takes half an hour?! By the end I was standing at the rail - desperate to stretch my back, and even more desperate to have the little girl behind me stop hitting me in the head with her spirit towel!

John didn't even bother trying to come back to our seats after his restroom break. He stood at the door of the gym and smiled knowingly as I remained trapped in my seat.

The game? We lost by two points. The spirit? Our school won - course, you can't help but be loud when you pack 200 people into seats that hold 50...

And So It Begins...Again!

Our brief reprieve from sports is over...Here is the schedule for this Saturday...

6:30 a.m. - Cameron catches the bus for an ALL DAY wrestling tournament about an hour and a half from here

8:00 a.m. - John leaves to go to Cameron's tournament

8:30 - 10:00 a.m - Jackson has wrestling practice

9:00 a.m. - Caeden has basketball practice

10:00 a.m. - Jackson has baseball conditioning

11:00 a.m. - Jackson, Caeden and I leave for Cameron's tournament

Sometime Saturday Night - We crawl in the door and crash!

And Sunday? It begins again with Jackson's regular Sunday wrestling matches.
So much for a day of rest...This IS the sporting life...