Boys at Houston Texans Training Camp

Kris Brown, kicker, giving autographs. Casen waiting patiently! Casen and Tyler with Toro!

Eric Winston, off. line, signing Jaydens ball.

Jayden standing in front of retired Houston Oilers, Ken Burrough, Zeke Moore.

Jayden and Casen before getting into the fields.

Clint brought a car full of boys to the Texans training camp. They left at 6AM to watch this years Texans team get a morning practice in! They got a lot of autographs and got to see the Texan cheerleaders really close! More pictures to come...

Jayden has football camp this week, then we have 2 more weeks of swimming then back to school we go. We are winding down :(

Vacation 2009

Hanging out at the pool Casen (swim shirt), Jayden (goggles), and friend Isaiah. Casen, doesn't the water look refreshing?

Jayden going off the board Casen in line!

Lazy river at L'Auberge Casino! Don't ask what's going on!

Here are some shots of our summer thus far! Not much else happening besides pool activities :) We usually go to the pools meet friends and play, have snacks, then come home and make dinner. July is winding down though and the stores are filling up with back-to-school stuff, I don't like that time of year or being reminded that work is right around the corner! But it is inevitably going to happen sooner or later. So the remainder of the summer we will be hitting the pools hard. I'll try to do a better job blogging and taking pictures!

Summer Time!

It has been some time since the last blog, sorry. I do have pictures to upload but the pc is not working right and I'm not a computer whiz to figure out how to do upload them on to the laptop, for some reason it is a lot different. I will do a quick recap and begin with the first week of summer:

Casen's all-star baseball tourney. Casen's team made it to the district 28 championship game. They lost by one run in the last inning. Since it is double elimination and had only one loss, they had to play again the next night. Well, that was a sad sad game, they lost 15-0 in 3 innings, they ended as district 28 runner-ups. It was a fun experience, and Casen made a lot of new friends on the team, the parents were awesome as well!

After that game we drove all night to Omaha, Nebraska for Jayden's baseball tourney. The weather was beautiful, wearing sweatshirts one morning :). Jayden's team won all three of their seeding games. When it came to single elimination they lost the first game. The vacation continued though as we went to the Omaha Zoo, and got to take in two UT College World Series games.

Upon our return home Jayden had baseball and basketball camp!

We are now officially in summer vacation mode: swimming pools, sleeping in, and staying up late! June flew by and before we know it, it will be August :(

First All-Star Victory!

Casen's Orwall All-Star team (SWAT) won tonight 16-6. Didn't play a very good team, but was a pretty good first game. Shakey first couple of innings then we got into the Red Sox groove! Jayden plays tomorrow morning and Sunday and then back to Casen on Monday night at 7 PM. We lucked out that we get to be at every one's games and not run around like our heads are chopped off. We can relax and enjoy! Happy baseball weekend, and no work to go to on Monday, yipppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Four School Days Left

Not really much to blog about this weekend. The Rockhounds had a well needed weekend off, and Casen's all-star team had a few days off as well. There was a team BBQ and swim party, which was a lot of fun. This week and weekend are sure to be hectic though. Casen's tourney starts this weekend + Jayden has tourney. Casen has practice EVERY night this week! We will try to be two places at one time, Dan you may be needed to taxi! Down to the wire in school days FOUR to be exact, this is our last Sunday night of having to go to bed early for quite some time, we are all looking forward to summer vacation. Here are a few random shots of the boys.

Rockhounds Win AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Red Sox World Series Runner-ups!!!!!!!!! Rockhounds Memorial Day Tourney Champions!

Champions Again!

Go Rockhounds, Omaha here we come!

Champions Two Weekends In A Row!

It was a weekend full of baseball. Three days of games, we didn't lose one in the three days but did tie two games! The Rockhounds played the best ball of the season, what a time of year to peak, right before the big Omaha tourney! There were 16 teams in this tourney and we won, everyone is hitting 1-10, and hardly any errors on defense(maybe one bad inning all weekend). Way to go Hounds, we are proud of you, excellent teamwork! Casen's all-star practices started as well, Clint is very pleased with the speed of this team everyone runs the base paths quickly, hasn't checked out the bats yet, maybe tonight!

World Series Here We Come UPDATE

Casen getting his American League Championship medal! Introductions before the game.

American League Champions, Boston Red Sox!

Casens baseball team has won the American League division at Orwall. Tomorrow night they face off against the National League Champions, Cardinals, in the the World Series. Both teams have met previously and have each won one! Guaranteed to be a good game, hope my next post is titled ...World Series Champions! I need to mention that Casen is standing so awkward in the first picture because he got beamed in the shoulder, running to second base the last play of the game! Nothing a little ice didn't cure. Update: The Red Sox lost 13-9 :( Exciting game though, lots of spectators, great parents and kids! All-Stars here we come!