Water Logged

Every day since we got home we have been swimming! Seriously! It is so hot and it hasn't rained in 2 months. I have to admit that I wanted to cry when we pulled into the driveway after being away from home for 2 1/2 weeks. Our yard looked pitiful. I did have a neighbor girl water my flowers pots but apparently my orders of "every other day" weren't enough. I thought it would be, but when it is 100 degrees every day it is not. We set the sprinklers to every other day too and our yard and flowers were half dead. I have nursed my flowers and replanted some and am now happy. Now we need rain!

On a positive note, we have had some action on our house that is for sale. There is a couple interested and they have requested our survey to see if there is room to put in a pool. Don't know what will come of it but they are the best prospects we have had yet! I will keep you all posted. Say a prayer!

I guess the agenda for tomorrow is........go to the library and then SWIMMING!!!

St. Louis

Here are the pictures we took on our trip. We didn't take many. We were too busy having fun with Grant and Leah!

Jax gets his trophy

Here is a picture and a video of Jax getting his trophy, the most important part of the season!

JAX'S LAST BASEBALL GAME

I will begin this post with, "I had all of my recording gear ready, but my camera wasn't charged like I thought it was!" I did the best with what tiny bit of battery I had left. I got some good footage on my regular video camera, but that is not easily downloaded to my computer. So here is what I got for you:

First at bat:

Second at bat:

Fielding a little:

BROOKS' LAST BASEBALL GAME CONT.

Moving pictures and videos around within my blog is making me CRAZY!!!! Therefore, here are pictures and the videos are in my post under this one.

BROOKS' LAST BASEBALL GAME

Brooks played his last game of the season last night. We got bumped from our field because of a tournament so we played our game on one of the practice fields. It worked. No seats, parents standing around, but it worked. I wanted to put a bunch of video on here for the family and because this is kind of my scrapbook. I wish it was better quality but this is from my camera not my video camera. So here are Brooks 3 at bats. He did so good this year. He hit the ball first try every time, every game. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself.

Here he is putting on Jax's batting gloves that he insists make him hit better:

1st time at bat:

2nd time at bat:

3rd at bat:

Here he is on his way to second. He has some weird issues with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd baseman. As you can see here he is trying to head butt the kid on first. I saw him with his fists up in the 2nd baseman's face at one point in the game. And if there is anyone in the baseline while he is running, he will remove them from the baseline. He tried that move on the wrong 2nd baseman last game and got knocked on his booty. If I only had that on tape. The kid knocked him down and Brooks laid on the ground with a surprised look on his face, and yelled "WHAT!" (Like how dare you push me back) The kids dad came and broke it up just as Brooks was getting up, and I don't really think he wanted to fight with that kid. It was hilarious though.

Here he makes an out on second:

Playing catcher:

And the moment he was waiting all season for....the trophy! I cannot tell you how much he wanted a trophy. He had a smile you couldn't wipe off of his face. Watch his funny little excited walk when his coach calls his name.

TRYING to relax!

We have been trying to relax a little this weekend. I just don't do that very well. It is nice to have 3 days that Chris isn't talking on his phone. We went last night and rented movies. Everyone got to pick out a movie. Brooks picked Spiderman. Jax picked Open Season 2. Chris picked Shooter and it was really good. Anyone looking for an action movie with only a little bad language should rent it. Tonight is my choice, Taken. I don't really know anything about it but I hope it is good!!!

Tonight we cooked deer burgers and I was peeling potatoes for oven fries and Brooks begged for mashed potatoes. He LOVES mashed potatoes. So I made him some. Chris and Jax don't like mashed potatoes so they ate oven fries. Here is a picture of Brooks watching me make them and waiting to lick the beaters. He sneaked a few bites too. Jax was minding his own business while I was making dinner. Yee Haw!!! I had to go get a few pictures of him too though. He was just coloring singing along to his favorite song "International Harvester." I have been working 4 days trying to get music on their music players. Chris used to sell these waterproof music players and we had a couple lying around but getting the music from itunes into a mp3 format was kind of difficult but I finally figured it out today. I was determined! I configured a play list with all of their favorite music and boy were they happy. They each have one and have figured out how to use it. It is so cute to hear your kids sing, I just love it! Jax was singing all day. Brooks' favorite song is "My Heroes have always been cowboys" by Willie Nelson. I am not kidding. They do both really like "Hunting the world southern style" by Colt Ford. We all jam to that one. In the car Brooks will say, "I want to listen to God" and now he can listen to him whenever he wants. James Carter made me a good kids christian cd a couple of years ago and I put that on their players too and they love it. So here are a couple pictures of Jax. He didn't want to be bothered but I coaxed a smile out of him anyway. Maybe I can sneak in on him and get some video of him singing. It is soooooo cute!!!