Bubba's last game

Bubba has his last game on Saturday. He did amazing. I so wish I would have had a video camera for the last play of the game.

Let me set it up for you....

Diamondbacks are batting. Bases loaded. Last batter. Two outs. Jacob is at short stop. Pop up towards Jacob. Jacob goes running and catches it in air! The Giants win the Championship! The Giants win the Championship!

OK so maybe it didn't happen quite like that. It is T-ball but it was the last play of the game. The bases were loaded (but the bases are always loaded with the last batter in T-ball). The kid did pop it up in the air and Jacob did catch the ball. The crowd went wild. Everyone, including the other team, were cheering wildly for my boy. It was awesome. He had a smile on his face the rest of the day. Go Jacob! Go #5!

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Opening Day for the Giants

Jacob had his first T-ball game yesterday. He was sooooo excited. Daddy, Jasmine and Jenna took Jacob early to get his uniform while I took James and a teammate to the field for their game (they have to be there 2 hours before their game so it actually worked out nice that we wouldn't miss either game).

Jacob plays for the Giants, sponsored by Chic-Fil-A (YUM!) and got #5.



Be prepared for a lot of pictures. Daddy takes a lot and there are just too many cute ones to not share them all.



Running to second and leading off on second


On third, ready to go home. This is how he leads off on third. Not sure why but maybe this will be his signature move in the MLB one day?


My pitcher


Batting




Telling the 3rd baseman to throw it home


They are really sponsored by Chic-Fil-A. The kids with the other sponsor played with the same coach last spring and just wore their old jerseys.


Run Bubba!!


OK, now we do this on all the bases...


It was a lot of fun watching the t-ballers play. You never know how it's going to go at this age. Most knew what to do. Lots of great hitters on the team. Jacob figured out if he batted last, he would get to run all the bases instead of having to stop at each base between batters. So he put himself last. No one noticed. Smart little guy he is. We are going to have to work on that he can't play all the positions at the same time. Although I guess when one of your team mates in playing in the dirt, someone has to cover their position. At the beginning of each inning, the coach would ask for volunteers to be different positions and Bubba was always the first raising his hand, getting right in there.

Jacob will tell you his team won 10-9 so I guess we had a victory the first week!

First T-ball Practice

Bubba finally had his first T-ball practice tonight with his team, the Giants. He was so excited! He came home from school and wanted to put his cleats on then. He did great. One of the few that paid attention the entire practice and knew what was going on.

Sadly there is only one other team. I guess more kids signed up for football. We have a short season of 5 games. I can't wait to see Bubba play though. He looks so incredibly cute out there, although I doubt I'm supposed to say that about my ball player.

Seriously, how cute can one kid be?


Getting some practice in with the coach while they wait for more kids to get there.


Who's that?


Oh surprise!


Daddy didn't have to work Bubba. We tricked you!


Smashing it!


Already knows how to get ready to run off that bag


I can't wait for the season to get underway. Our first game is September 11th!

The Muckdogs are the 12U Champs!!!

That's right! We beat the Rangers tonight 6 - 3!!!! It was an intense game and the Muckdogs did it. They won it all!!! Jordan actually nailed it into the outfield at the end of the game although it was caught. It was still amazing to see him hit that ball that way. Everyone was screaming and cheering for him! I don't think he's stopped smiling since that hit.

Go Muckdogs! Way to go!





Afterward the game, the coach took all the boys to Outback to celebrate!!! Thanks for a great season Muckdogs!

A long, hot and great weekend

Well we went from winter to summer! I personally love the heat. I'd much rather be hot than cold.

Saturday morning started out at 8 am at the baseball field. Jordan had a play off game at 9. We had a big cooler full of cold water and Gatorade and we were all sunscreened up. They played against the Rangers, which is a really rough team. They won! They beat them 7 - 5. Jordan played a good game. He's really coming along. We are now in the Championship game Wednesday night. If we win, the Muckdogs are champs. If we lose, it goes to Thursday night.

After Jordan's game, we went and picked up James. We took him to his football games. They won both games. The first game was really great. The second game was even better. James was captain of the second game which I think is why he scored two touchdowns!! He did great. Jamie gave him some great tips at the one game he was able to make and you can tell he remembers them. It was a great season.

Here is James out doing his captain duties before the game



Then we came home and vegged out. The kids wanted to go to the pool but I told them I think we all had had enough of the heat for one day.

So that leads to Sunday. I did a little grocery shopping in the morning and then after lunch, we went to the pool. We only lasted about two hours though. I burned my legs pretty bad on Saturday but didn't want to miss out on going to the pool with Jamie and the kids.

Jacob and Jenna played some in the baby pool



Jenna looking for the ice cream man





Finally the ice cream man came!



When we got home, Jamie fired up the grill. He grilled burgers, hot dogs and corn on the cob! YUMMY! After that, the kids had more ice cream. I had gotten these really cool M&M shaped ice creams on a stick. I forgot to get pictures of that. Then they wanted watermelon.



Jordan doesn't like watermelon so he was just being a goofball



It was a great weekend!

This week is going to be another hot and busy week! Jasmine has gymnastics tonight. Jordan has baseball Wednesday and possibly Thursday. I'm getting a DVD player installed in the van on Wednesday. Friday, we are going to the mountains. Saturday, my cousin is getting married and we are going to the wedding. It's going to be a great week!