{Monkey on the Bars}

There is a playground right by the baseball field that Ayden plays his games at.  My kiddos love it and so do I.  They are content during the two hour game and I don't have to listen to whiny kids.  A win-win in my book.  At Ayden's last game Lauryn discovered a new talent.  She can do the monkey bars and skip a rung. Now for a little thing like her that is a big deal.  I mean her arms are only so long right!!  She was pretty tickled that I got pictures to prove that she could really do it!!  What a monkey!!

{Baseball 2013}

We are in full swing with Spring baseball.  Ayden is playing this year after taking last year off because we hadn't found a good league that didn't have games and practices on Sundays.  This year though Ayden brought a flier home from school for this league and we are actually really happy with it.  You wouldn't think Ayden sat out a year though, he has jumped in with both feet and has been having a great time.  He is the smallest and probably one of the youngest.  He is getting to pitch this season, which I think is his favorite position (like father like son hey?).  The coach does a really great job of moving players around and trying them at different positions to see where they fit the best.  Ayden has been at catcher, pitcher, outfield and shortstop.  He likes to be in the action, so catcher and pitcher are his favorite positions.

Ryan is enjoying this baseball season right along with Ayden.  He is usually the one that takes him to his practices and talks shop with Ayden in the evenings while watching MLB games.  Apparently the other coaches could see a  gold mine of information sitting untapped in Ryan.  Last night they officially made him the pitching coach for the team and gave him a hat and made him start right before the game.  Ryan was in heaven, but trying to refrain from channeling his inner Ed Cheff (Ryan's college coach that could be well, a bit of a fanatic you could say).  I had to remind him that these were just boys and to take it easy on them!! :)

Lauryn has declared that she wants to try softball next season and Wyatt will be old enough to do T-Ball next Spring too.  We might as well sign Meysa up too so she isn't left out.  Heaven help me.  I am glad though that my kids are out being active and having fun along the way.

This one is blurry but Ryan liked Ayden's form!!

{Soccer Baby}

Our little baby started soccer this last weekend.  How did that happen?  How is he old enough to be doing rec sports now?  However it happened, he is and he is loving it.  He was so cute to watch running all over the field, chasing the ball.  Actually, he didn't do a lot of chasing.  He was more concerned about the unattended goal.  He took it upon himself to be the goalie and would run toward the ball until the direction the ball was taking changed toward his own goal and then he would high tail it to guard the net.  He liked wearing the jersey and learning how to pass and stop the ball.  The age group is 3-4 year olds.  So you can imagine how crazy it could be with kids running and all trying to get the ball.  My stomach hurt after 45 minutes from laughing at all these little guys.  The coaches were really patient and worked well with the kids.  We only have 5 more weeks and we are gonna enjoy each and everyone of them.  Yeah for soccer!!

 

{Easter Eggs}

We had a really quiet Easter this year.  We didn't do any Easter egg hunts.  The kids got books, new shirts and some chocolate in their Easter baskets.  We were getting ready for my brother Andy and his wife Sariah to come into town the day before Easter.  I got to speak in church on Easter and then we came home and had a wonderful ham dinner, enjoying our time with family in town.  My kids loved having their Aunt and Uncle here and so did I!!

The kids did dye Easter eggs, so we were kinda festive!!  They had fun being creative, Meysa especially.  She really tried to get her eggs multi-colored.  Wyatt was happy to dip his eggs and get them drying as fast as possible.  Lauryn was a mixture of the two and she was also the messiest.  Ayden was too cool I guess to dye eggs this year.  He dipped his eggs and then used some screen time to play Hay Day on the iPad without having to share with his siblings.  I mean he is almost 12.  So that basically means he is too old for baby egg dying right?!!

 

{NASA & Mini Golf}

On our second full day in Ocean City we had a lovely mix of rain and snow to add to the already cold temps.  So we were looking for something to do indoors and found out that there was a NASA facility just south of us into Virginia.  There was a visitors center so we thought, why not check it out.  It was fun for the kids, even though we seriously spent only a half an hour there.  It was a small visitors center and they were doing some renovations so their theater was wasn't working.  We got back into the car and ate lunch and then headed back to Ocean City to find something else to do.  We hit up a bowling alley and it happened to be Senior day and they had a senior bowling league tournament going on so there were no open lanes.  The next best thing was indoor mini golf.  The kids had a great time.  Wyatt even got a hole in one.  We spent the afternoon doing that and then we headed to the pool and let the kids swim for a few hours.  It was our last day in Ocean City.  The next day when we left to head home the weather was warmer and sunny, go figure.  We stopped off at the outlet malls on our way back and found some good deals.

The rest of Spring Break was spent doing some spring cleaning, going bowling, watching movies and enjoying being off of work and school.  We are excited to head back to Ocean City when it is much warmer.  We may even get to wear our swimsuits on the beach instead of our parkas!!