Play Ball!

Today was Opening Day for our local baseball league. All of the teams are assembled and each of the kids gets their name annouced as they run onto the field. Great idea, but the whole process is very long! On top of the length of the ceremony, it was extremely hot! We went from 50 degree weather to 88 degree weather over the course of 3 days! Addie was EXTREMELY bothered by the heat so I didn't get the best of pictures, but at least it's documented.


This is Bryson's 2nd year playing baseball.


Tanyon is so excited that he gets to play this year. Check out the seriousness as he runs onto the field!


In an attempt to save money, I snapped pictures of the boys as the photographer was taking pics. I figured I could make my own wallet pics.

Tan's hat makes his poor ears stick out. They gave all of the kids adult hats. Must have been a man who made the orders :)

The boys with their Daddy. They love having him help coach! I'm sad that Bryson's eyes are closed!!

The 2010 Rockies- they had several players missing. Bryson said he was lucky because he got to hold the bats! He is the only kindergartner on the team. He's doing a pretty good job holding his own!

The 2010 Reds- check out the faces of the kids in the front row, it will make you giggle! I have been so proud of Tanyon so far this season! Some of the kids on his team display less than desirable behavior, but he chooses to avoid it! It is great to see that he can think through the choices his making- away from the house at least. :) He told us the other day- so and so is not my friend. Why I asked. Because so and so was punching so and so in the back. But I didn't join in because I wanted to make Jesus happy! :) Brought a tear to my eye, and then we talked about showing kindness to so and so but not joining in when he's making bad choices.

As we signed the boys up for the season, Adam and I chose to bump Bryson up a level since he had already played 1 year of tbll. We knew that catching was an issue with him, but the boys last year on his team that had played 2 years of tbll were bored out of their minds. So far it seems like we made the right choice but when we have 4 nights of baseball a week I start to think we were crazy for doing so! But sports has always been a big part of Adam and I's life and we really are enjoying that our kids are getting big enough to enter this stage of life.