Mother’s Day…

Jack made a vase and a card for Mother’s day:

Here is the card:

Practice…

In between baseball, Jack still has basketball practice.  We have the Tigers Tournament coming up and we hopefully can improve from the WLA showing.  Luckily, Dawn and Bryan continue to come out to work the kids through drills:

Hopefully Jack gets better…at least in photos he looks good:

In reality it is more like this in the game:

Gymnastics…

Stacy had a make up class for Gymnastics so Aya and I were able to watch her one weekend:

She is so good:

Just so amazing at what she can do compared to when Jack went:

So proud watching her at gymnastics:

More Baseball…

We missed team pictures, so Jack had to take a make up photo.   I managed to get a good photo…I hope it isn’t better than the one I had to pay for!

Can you believe it, old stone hands in football, has nice soft hands with the leather:




I couldn’t believe it!  I was just waiting for him to drop the ball at the end.  Amazing!

Baseball…

Jack is doing quite well at baseball.  His sad team is actually playing very well now.  Jack got to start the game reciting the baseball oath:

And then proceeded to have a 4 hit day:

Today he was even ready and paying attention out in the field:

Water…

Not only do the kids get to play at the pool, they also have fun at Grandpa & Grandma’s house with the water:

Hmm, I forgot to mention, they are in their underwear:

WIN!!

I guess Jack’s coach finally got tired of being the worst team in the league.   We now have practice 1.5 hours before the game to get some extra BP:

All that translated into our FIRST win of the season:

I thought we would be winless!  So glad to just get ONE win.

Pool Part 2…

The kids jumping in together:

Ahhh…fun times.

Pool Part 1…

We had great weekend weather so we headed up to the pool.  You can’t turn your back on Stacy for a second at the pool.  Even though she is water safe, she thinks she can swim like a fish.

All set to jump in the pool:

Fun in the sun:

Stacy…

I try to be an equal opportunity ‘mean’ dad, but sometimes it is just harder being mean to Stacy…especially when she looks like this:

Dodger Blue…

Aya went to the Dodger game with coworkers and brought the kids back some cotton candy:

I don’t think this is what the Dodgers had in mind for Dodger “blue”.

Swimming…

Stacy is now water safe…again.  She was water safe last year when we ended swim lessons.  I guess since she was so young they made her take so repeat classes and then tested her again to see if she was water safe:

The test seemed different than before.  I remember clothes being optional and most kids taking the test in their bathing suits.  I also don’t remember them being tossed in the air, but Stacy loved it:

Yay!

Duck Dynasty…

I happened to be flipping channels a few months ago and came across a show on A&E called Duck Dynasty.  The show has been out for 2 seasons but I didn’t start watching until the 3rd season.  I have now seen all the episodes.  I think the show it hilarious and who would have thought they were multi-millionaires.  Even from watching the show I couldn’t figure it out for a while that they were really rich.

In any case, when I want to laugh I just watch this clip.

Happy Friday…and have a great 3day weekend!!

WLA–Game 3

This is a game to remember.  Again, a victim of bad referee’s.  The team we played was aggressive and I have no problem with that, but the ref didn’t call any fouls and/or just got tired of calling fouls against the other team.  I know, sounds like sour grapes, but if we get beat we get beat.

This team grabbed our players every time we went past them and then when they had the ball the travelled A LOT and/or double dribbled.   It was like the ref refused to call anything.  I just gave up and decided to let it be a learning lesson for the kids and that you have to play thru regardless of the calls.

They were a good team but if they tracked personal fouls and/or made calls I think it would have been a different outcome.  Nevertheless, we played well and the kids were happy to get trophies:

We played some good teams this coming weekend in the Tigers Tournament so hopefully we do just as well:

WLA–Game 2

Game 2 was payback.  We played the WLA that killed us last year.  The reason why they beat us….they had a kid that travelled the ENTIRE length of the court and then shot it.  He was a fast little kid too.  Their coach just looked at me like…’what…he travels a bit’.  Last year I even said something to the ref and they said they were told not to call travelling or double dribble. 

So, that stuck in my head and this year with fast break, travelling and double dribble supposedly going to be called, we BURIED this team.

Sure, they were bigger than us but we were tough.  We ran them up and down the court until even *I* felt bad.  Sadly I didn’t feel bad to really late in the game.  We won 39-8.

I sort of felt bad after because the bad coach last year was forced to quit so we had to beat the team with the new coach and he was a nice guy.