The American Cancer Society - 2011 Relay For Life of Manassas, VA:

The American Cancer Society - 2011 Relay For Life of Manassas, VA:

Jenna and Spinny (Harlem Globetrotter)

Chester's uncle is none other than Spinny Johnson. Harlem Globetrotter and by far one of the nicest and most genuine people I have ever met in my entire life. He puts on shows for schools and at various other locations. He put on a show the other night at Jamie's work and Jenna couldn't wait to get out there with him.

Here she is spinning a ball on a Sharpie marker.



How cool is that?!?!

Home vs Ellicott City

James' football team won again today! 19-0!! They played awesome. It was a great game.

Go #74!

Happy 5th Birthday Jenna Beans

Happy Birthday dear Jenna! I can't believe you are 5 already. When did this happen? You are such a fun girl. You are a smart girl and you keep us laughing, despite driving me bonkers. :-) We love you so much sweet girl.

Yes, she is wearing a winter hat and bathing suit. That's Jenna.


What a great mustache!


Yup, that's Jenna!

Go! Fight! Win!

Jasmine cheered after James' game and did great. Here she is in a stunt. Eek!

Game #3 vs. WHC

Victory! 14-6! The boys did it. They played so much better yesterday. They played to win. They were the first Germantown team to win against WHC yesterday for the day. James plays better, stronger and faster every game. He's starting to do the work and getting better every day.

James is #74


And that right there is the smile of victory!

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!

Game #2 vs Maplewood

Not a fun day at the football field yesterday. We lost. 13-6. Not because the other team was just better (well, they were really good actually) but because the boys didn't come to play until the second half and it was too late then. They beat themselves. Hopefully they don't get too discouraged, brush themselves off and come ready to play next week.

There aren't many of James playing. He just didn't see as much playing time as last week.

#74 on the left


Blocking


The coaches ~ this sums up the feelings for everyone


Next week boys! Next week!

Labor Day Cheering

Even though it's Labor Day weekend, it's still football and cheerleading here.

Jasmine's squad cheered for the Liberty teams today. Normally she cheers for the National teams (James is National). James doesn't play until Monday though.

She did great as usual and is actually pretty loud! I know. Can you believe it?

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!