Baseball Wins Continue!

Casen after Jayden's game! Teacher appreciation week, 70 pounds of peanut M & M's!

Rockhounds 1st place this weekend!! (Jayden back row,2 in from left) Jayden with the 1st place trophy!

It was a HOT tourney this weekend, I know that it's only going to get even hotter! The Rockhounds finally get another first place in a tournament, enough with second place already! After trailing the entire game 6-2 they came back to win in the last inning, as we did in the other tourney that we won! Casen's team plays on Wednesday night in the end of the season double elimination tourney at Orwall. I hope that their winning streak continues! Swine flu, was an overrated flu, ALL schools are back in session, and no-one that we know caught it, thank goodness! Teacher appreciation week was last week. I have mounds of peanut M & M's as you can see in the picture. At school I have 4 vases of flowers, not bringing those home for the cats to try to eat and spill over. Very thankful for all of my teacher gifts most of all the 75 cans of diet coke, left most of that at school too!! UPDATE: Casen's baseball team won 19-9, they are on a roll, one more win to go before they are in the World Series!

Swine Flu & Baseball

Rockhounds getting their 2nd place trophies! In-between games!

With the shiny hardware!

After a BIG victory, congratulating Casen on a great game!

After the batting cages!

Swine flu... one Woodlands school is closed for the next week due to 3 cases of the flu in that school. There are no cases at my school, Clint's school, or the boys' school. One of the boys on Jayden's ball team tonight was joking saying he wanted to get the swine flu to be a hero, no school for the next week! It has already been announced that the students don't have to make up the days missed if that school closes due to the flu. He was on his way to Walmart to begin to lick shopping cart handles!

Baseball news, the boys are playing great baseball! The Rockhounds (Jaydens team) has made it to the championship game two weekends in a row. They have placed second both weeks, but have played some unbelievable talented teams. The teams they lost to are rated 1st and 3rd in the United States, due to playing such great teams, the Rockhounds are rated in the top 10!

Casen's team, the Red Sox, are on a roll as well. After having a perfect season a few weeks ago they stumbled a bit and lost two in a row. They are now back on track and have two victories in a row with only one more regular season game left to play. The Red Sox turned a double play today, pretty amazing for an 8 year old little league team! They got a guy out at second and someone was running from third to home, and Casen threw him out at the plate, they won 21-2.

Happy Easter!

Grandma & Grandpa watching The Masters! Dan, not sure why this turned out so dark?

Jayden doing a project that is due tomorrow!

Happy Easter to everyone! Hope that everyone is having a nice Easter holiday with good food, friends, and family! The Easter bunny did stop by and hide some eggs, left some swimming trunks and water guns! Over the weekend we have played Imagine-Iff, and watched a few movies. Jayden won the board game and sad to say that most of the movies were bad. Slum Dog Millionaire = Bad, 7 Pounds = Worse, Twilight=Terrible. Today on TV, FREE movie, we watched Maid of Honor and the girls say it was by far the best out of all the movies watched!

Baseball update, Casen's little league baseball team is still undefeated and plays again on Monday. Hopefully the luck doesn't turn south with Grandma and Grandpa watching! Jayden doesn't have anything until Saturday, his 7 on 7 football team is playing in the State Tourney, here in The Woodlands!

Flat Stanley

Casen and his best buddy Isiah with Flat Stanley! Casen and Flat Stanley playing Playstation!

Clint giving the speech after a victory!

Before going out to eat at Pei Wei Asian Diner, yum!

Casen was doing the Flat Stanley project this week. Second graders are reading the novel in school and Flat Stanley spent the week with us and we had to document it with pictures and nightly diary entries of his time here. Flat Stanley was at a lot of sporting events in his week with our family. Three seven on seven football games and 2 baseball games. Casen's baseball team is 6-0, yes undefeated so far. Tomorrow night we play the other undefeated team, I hope we win, it should be very exciting! Grandma and Grandpa Holden will be with us for Easter, we are looking forward to the company :)

Rodeo cont.

The boys getting a foot massage after a lot of walking. Casen is dreaming of this day!

Jayden cannot wait until this day, unfortunately it's not that far away!

A fun car!

John Deere is all that they had, sorry grandpa no New Holland!

The boys at Reliant Arena sitting on all of the tractors, trucks, and cars that are there for show. Jayden is only wishing of truck that nice, I am scared as they day gets closer and closer!

Rodeo = Longhorns, Funnel Cake, Ice Cold Diet Cokes!

Dad and Mom during the funnel cake and Diet Coke break! Same goes for us funnel cake and Diet Coke break, mental note do NOT wear a black shirt if you know in advance of the funnel cake!

Grandpa and the boys with Bevo in the back!

Casen and a BIG longhorn behind him!

Jayden just after finishing his pizza, in the background they are making the BEST smelling burgers and sausage on a stick ever!

It was a great day at the Rodeo! Fabulous weather, 77 degrees calm and not a cloud in the sky! I come by my funnel cake and diet coke love honestly, mom has the same love too! We all enjoyed the carny guys heckling us, and walking through Reliant Arena looking at the HUGE cows of all sorts (milking, longhorns, bulls). Jayden actually went on the Zipper, big feat for him as well as the Grande Ferris Wheel, doesn't like heights much. Casen loved sitting in the nice cars and big tractors, those pictures will be the next post :). Casen was actually tall enough to drive his own bumper car, he has been awaiting that day since we have been going to the rodeo. Today is another beautiful day and we are going to plant flowers and tomato plants!

Rockhounds Win First Place!

Rockhounds 1st place! Jayden back center without a baseball cap.

A quick baseball update...Jayden's baseball team won first place this weekend! It was very exciting. We came back in the sixth inning to win both games on Sunday. I know I said that I was going to bring my camera and I did, it just didn't make it out of the counsel of the car. I was kicking myself for leaving it after they won the championship! Jayden played well, he loves being in the outfield, no more first base for him! Casen also has a little friend named Brice, he's the younger brother of another player on the team, love it when there is a sibling his age especially a boy. They were out in the woods, just past center field, I could see them through the fence. They were making a "hobo house" out of sticks and rocks, They also had furnishings in the house... an old grill and an old retired bicycle that they found in the woods! Another good time had by all. Next weekend grandma and grandpa with the dog (no more) are coming to visit and see some ball games, we can't wait!