Spring Sports

We're again playing both soccer and baseball this spring...but one for each kid this time!  It's a crazy schedule of practices and games M-Th every week, but we've worked out a carpool to ease some of the soccer driving!

Jared is playing his last few weeks of U11 Rush soccer.  He's had a blast playing with Coach Tino and his friends from school.  As much as he's learned this year, I think that this will be our last season of soccer.  It's been increasingly difficult to get him excited for practices and games.

He's played in two tournaments this spring - Hamburg Friendlies and the Jaguar Invitational.  Both meant long weekends with multiple games, but both were local (score!).  The weekend of the Jaguar tourney was overcast and damp...I can't decide if that's better or worse than the scorchers we've had more recently!

Warming up at the Jaguar Invitational

Keeping cool under Marla's awesome umbrella!

Owen is playing his second year of baseball this year.  The big change for the 8 year old "Wildcat" age group is that the boys pitch the first three innings of each game!  The boys are learning that it's much more difficult to hit the ball when thrown by a player rather than the machine from last year, but they're all growing so much in their hitting abilities.

Owen got his chance to pitch last week and did pretty well - he struck out two batters!  Though, he did hit two players with pitches...and he felt awful about that.

His team, the Orioles, is a great group of kids learning under two amazing coaches.  He's having a great year and can't wait to find out if we can play fall ball!

Opening Day

Poised to run for 2nd

As much as I love watching my boys enjoy their respective sports...I'm looking forward to the end of June when we get a break...until football.