Baseball Season has arrived

Well, I know it has been a while. My mom has informed me it has been three months since our last post. I apologize for the hiatus. Life has been a little busy. I have been working two and three days a week for the past few months. We have medical bills to pay, and you know how things have been in the construction industry. We are so grateful for the opportunity I have to work, and make good money. Little did we know 15 + years ago, that my education would be so useful. Another plug for the educated woman.

Anyway, I will have to update and catch up what has happened in the past few months. We have had some exciting things happen. Adam was baptized in January with two of his cousins, and Drew was just ordained a deacon two weeks ago. Luke just turned two, had stitches and surgery on his finger and is starting to talk, and say funny things. Jared got a promotion at work, and I just ran 30 minutes without stopping and no residual pain the next day. Yeah! But, I will get to that later.

This week has been the opener for baseball season at our house. Drew is playing little league at Highland City on the Giants for an awesome coach. He is a pretty laid back guy, and uses everything as a teaching moment. This has been very refreshing, and Drew is responding great to that. He has all of a sudden gotten tall, and gotten more serious about life. I guess it is true, with more responsibility they become more responsible. He loves to play catch, and has decided that Mom can play catch too. I may not throw as hard as Dad, but I can catch, and throw a pretty good ball. He is improving, and thinks he wants to start pitching. With his height, this wouldn't be a bad thing. The team needs more pitchers. His first game was on Tuesday, against the Indians. It started a bit slow. The pitcher was a young kid (10, I think) and he had a hard time getting in the groove. This is to be expected as it is the first game for the whole league. Unless the kids have been playing superleague, which a lot of Highland does, but most of those kids plan in a different league all together. The pitcher finally got it together, and so did the offense. They had some great hits, and ended up winning 19-12. Drew was 2-2 as he was walked both times. He did actually swing at the ball, and we were thrilled. It was a foul ball, and the rest of the balls were in the dirt or at his eyeballs. He could use some confidence, and we are hoping for a swing and a hit that goes fair this time. He played right feild and did get some action, and only missed one grounder. He promises to work harder next time. He has a game today against the same team, so we shall see how things go.

Adam is playing machine pitch this year, and playing short stop or third base. He plays for the Mudcats. His shirt is black with an ugly red catchfish on it. The same logo is on the hat. He loves it. He went 2-2 as well, with one hit a hard grounder between short and third, and a frozen rope over second. He had a double both times. He did see action as the third baseman. He had some throws from the feild that he caught, and a couple of grounders. He has improved dramatically, and is really enjoying it so far. His next game is friday. I will post some pictures of them playing later.

Madi has not started ball yet. I decided to sign her up in Lehi, as thier season doesn't start until June. She did not appreciate the cold weather last year, and I think she might like coach pitch better than t-ball. She has been hitting into the net and playing "smash the bug" hitting off the tee. Jared has her and the rest of the kids, doing drills. Drew liked it so much, he broke the tee, that is about a month old. We will have to do a little repair, so that we can get a little more use out of it.

Luke loves to play ball, and has his own mit. He chases the balls around. He loves to kick the soccer ball as well. He can actaully chase and kick the ball at the same time. He loves the trampoline and jumping with me. He likes to ride the four wheeler with dad also.

Jared has been working the horse pasture, to get it to grow grass or hay or whatever will grow. He has planted it twice now. The first time, was just before a wind storm that is common in "Highwind" where we live. Needless to say, the seed didn't take. He spent about 4 hours on the fourwheeler this weekend, with Lukey sitting in front about half that time. The only problem with that is that Luke falls asleep, and has to be taken in the house. Jared harrowed the pasture with some disc things, I don't know what they are called, pulled behing the four wheeler. He put a board over it and had Adam and Madi sit on it for weight. They loved it. I was a basket case until he put the board on top (about 10 minutes). I mowed the grass and enjoyed the nice weather. We did plant onions, carrots, peas, potatoes, and some beans in the garden this weekend as well. Luke loved putting the seeds in the dirt, throwing the potatoes into the holes, and covering everything with dirt.