YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got my tickets to go see Mumford & Sons in Bristol, TN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of the Season

Well, we lost last night.  It wasn't even close.  :(  Caitlin played pretty well, though. 

She didn't get a hit but she fielded well and stopped the two balls that came to her and got them in quick.

It's been a fun season and she is already looking forward to fall ball.

Her coach said he was most proud of Caitlin for how much she has improved! 

I was a very proud momma.

Summer Bucket List

To document the fun we will have this summer!!

Pool Time

Monday the girls and I went with the Sutherlands to the pool while Rusty played golf.  Alaina is doing much better in the water than she did last year - thank goodness!  Last year, I spent the whole time chasing her around the pool.  This year, she likes to jump in and float.  Hallelujah!

Caitlin is getting so good at swimming.  She goes all over the deep end.  She was playing with Sophia and a girl from the neighborhood.  They were diving for stuff on the bottom of the pool.  I'm so glad she loves the water!!

How Do I Do This?

This morning in the shower, I find this new bruise.

I don't even remember doing this. 

WooHoo

Yesterday, we refinanced our house at 3.5%.  Yes, 3.5%!!!  I am so excited about how much money we will save in the long run.  Plus, we went to a 15 year loan (saving 87 months of payments) with no PMI and our payment still went down a little.  I sound like a boring adult but all that makes me happy!  :)

Alaina

This is what Alaina does after she wakes up from a nap.  She tips her pack n play over and collapses it.

While organizing the playroom, I found Caitlin's old sleeping bag.  I forgot we had it.  Since it had Dora on it, we blew it up for Alaina and she LOVES it!!!

Birthday Party

On Saturday we went to a neighbor's birthday party.  Sam turned 3 and his parents invited the kids from the neighborhood to a cookout and field day type games.  It was a lot of fun to sit around and get to know all our neighbors better.

Caitlin loved all the games.

I do believe she cheated a little bit.  First she had an early start and then she starts running inside the pillow case instead of jumping.  She hates losing and I'm still trying to teach her cheating is not the way to win.

Alaina loved the smores!

Not that you can tell from this picture!

Tournament Game #1 - WIN

Last night, we played the Razorbacks, the 7th place team.  Caitlin got two hits last night out of three at bats - pretty good.  She didn't see any action in the outfield - not many of the other team's hits made it that far.  We won 16-8.

Friday night at 7, we play the Rebels.  We are tied for second place with them so it might be a close one.  We've played them twice, though, and won both times.

Nashville Sounds

I bought tickets last week for Caitlin and I to go to the Sounds game.  I wanted good seats, so I bought on the 1st base line.  I didn't quite realize how close we were, though.  We were right behind the visitor dugout and it was frighteningly close to batters.  There was no net in front of us, so we had to really pay attention in case there were foul balls.

Caitlin loved how close we were!

She had fun watching the game.  She learned a few rules and noticed lots of differences in professional baseball and her softball league.  It was perfect weather and we had a lot of fun.

She even got a ball! 

Mother's Day Tea Party

Yesterday, I took a half day off work to join Caitlin at her Mother's Day Tea party at school.   I loved seeing the goodies she made just for me. 

I love the words to describe me.  Clumsy is dead-on!

While there, I looked around and saw that her friend, Tina, was the only child without a parent or loved one with her. I wanted to see if Caitlin minded if she joined us. So I said, "Caitlin, does Tina have her mom here?" Before I could even tell her my idea she says, "No. Mom we should invite her to sit with us." Love that girl!!

So I adopted Tina for the day.

They did a reader's theater Mother's Day story.

Mean

The girls are both enjoying mommy having music in the car again.  They both love "Mean" by Taylor Swift.  Since I can't video them rocking out in the car while I'm driving, here's Alaina "singing" it at home.

Fashion Disaster Day

I think this qualifies!

Tuesday Game

The game was nuts!  Rusty kept the books so I had to watch and chase Alaina at the same time.  Thank you Ben and Stephanie for helping chase her.  The team struggled at this game.  The team we played was in 4th place but we had lost to them before.  They all can hit really well and our team struggled with fielding.  It seemed like the veteran players forgot what they were doing.  Caitlin, who might go a whole game without any action in right center field, had 3-4 plays, only one ball got by her but it was a great hit.  One play was almost spectacular.  She got a slow pop fly ball and stuck her glove out like she knew what she was doing.  It went right in to her glove . . . and then rolled out.  I think she was a little scared of it, but she almost caught it.  I think we are going to have to practice some pop flys now.  Her first at bat, she hit the first pitch and got a double.  It was a great hit!  So Caitlin had one of her best nights ever.  The rest of the team . . . not so much.  Two of the girls stopped playing after several errors.  Really?  I would never let my child just quit on her team and leave them to fend for themselves.  Caitlin ended up having to play all of center field by herself and people were moved around and had to play positions they weren't experienced at.  So yeah, we lost 16-4 and are now tied for 2nd place.  One more game to go before the tournament starts.

Spirit Week

This week is spirit week at Caitlin's school.  Each day, they have a theme for what they wear and it ends with Friday, the night of Spring Fling.  Yesterday was Cowboy/Cowgirl day.  That one was easy since Caitlin loves her horses.  We had that one covered.

Today, was duct tape day.  What?  Yes, duct tape day!  So Rusty decorated an existing shirt to make a duct tape outfit.

Tomorrow is Fashion Disaster Day.  Stay tuned . . . that one should be fun!

Some outtakes!

She loved the scarecrow!

I was trying to get a real smile so I called her a poopy head.

Twirling . . .

Loving traffic now!

 I have lived without a radio for I don't know how long!

The amp in my car went out probably 6-8 months ago.  I took it to the dealership and they said it would cost $1000 for them to fix it.  They called an after market stereo place and said that they could probably do it for $500.  I still thought that was a lot of money just to listen to the radio, so I did without it for a long time.  I listened to my iphone, but it just wasn't the same.

So for Mother's Day, I asked for my radio to be fixed and for the isimple that plays your iphone through your stereo.  Rusty has it in his car and I wanted one too.  He took it to Best Buy for me to get everything done.  They started accumulating everything they would need to fix the amp and install the isimple.  It was quickly totalling close to $1000.  Then Rusty had a great idea.  What about just installing a new stereo that was powerful enough it didn't need an amp?  Um, perfect!  He found me one that had the feature to play mp3 players so it did everything I wanted and saved us over $700!!  Love it!

Now, I can listen to Mumford & Sons in full stereo and I LOVE IT!!!!  Traffic is pretty enjoyable now!!