Worn Out
Wow this was a busy weekend. I need a vacation from my weekend. I’m exhausted.
On the softball front…It was Districts weekend and, of course, Lee and the rest of his Checkers team played. I was a little worried. I’m not sure how they did on their Sunday night league, but they didn’t win a single game on their Monday night league. He played on Friday and they lost. But they played against a very good team (according to Lee). So they had to play again on Saturday morning. And they won. So they played at 4:45pm. And they won again. So they are going to state. Woo Hoo. Be sure to congratulate Lee! They won another game at 6:15. Then they played their final game at 7:30pm, but they lost that game. So they didn’t win Districts, but they are going to State. That’s all that matters. It must of been their new red jerseys. They played in their white jerseys all year long and for Districts they broke out some new awesome red jerseys. I guess they were on fire (ha ha).
Friday night was also Keaton’s Cub Scout Overnight at the Ballpark. So he got to enjoy the Kernels game and spend the night on the field. This was Keaton’s first time camping and he had a blast. He and I went to the game together; ate some pizza and cotton candy (YUMMY!). Then when Lee’s softball game was over he joined us at the Kernels game. It was in the middle of the seventh inning when Lee got there, but at least he got to see the end of the game. It was chilly out on Friday night so I was a little worried about them sleeping on the field out there. But they had sweatshirts and their sleeping bags so they were fine. I’m just a big wimp I guess. I know I would have been shivering all night long. They got to watch the movie Sandlot on the big screen. You know the big screen where they do the kissing cam and close up with the players and all that stuff. Keaton said it was awesome. When they got home on Saturday around 7am, Lee told me he was going to run back out with his camera. He said standing up at the top looking down at all those tents was an awesome sight. But when he got back to the stadium most of the tents were already down and people were gone. So we don’t have any good pictures. But he got a few shots of those that were still there. I guess we’ll have to go out and buy a tent now. (He borrowed a tent from his Patrol leader for this event.) I’ll have to add it to his wishlist.
Then on Saturday we were going to go to the Animal Planet Expo. Did any of you go to that? It was advertised all over TLC for well over a month. It was probably advertised on the Animal Planet channel too (would be my guess…but we don’t really watch that). And it was free. So I think everybody in town decided to go. It was packed. We started to drive up 6th Street and we could see people parking on 33rd Avenue. That’s a pretty hefty walk to Hawkeye Downs. So I was getting a little concerned. The traffic was backed up to 33rd Avenue too. I thought it was just because of the road construction (you know this is the season of construction…we have to have construction on every single road all summer long), but it wasn’t the road construction. It was people trying to get to the Expo. Ten minutes later when we actually got up to Hawkeye Downs I saw all the people. Oh my gosh, I don’t think I’ve seen so many people packed in to one place in my life. It was crazy. I was worried for the safety of my children if we went. One of them could of slipped away and never been found again. So we skipped that and just went to the playground at Keaton’s school. It was much calmer and the kids had a lot of fun.
We found ourselves at a BBQ at my friend’s house on Saturday night. The kids loved it. Especially Skyler because my friend Stacy has a little girl (Britnee) who is around six and Misti has a little girl (Amber) who is only a month younger then Skyler. She loved having these little girl friends to play with. She didn’t want to leave. And she’s already talking about getting together with them again. I hope Stacy and Tim’s house survived all those kids though. I think the kids brought out every toy to play with. And the big boys got a little wild at one point. But that all had a blast.
By Sunday I was about to pass out from exhaustion. I stayed in bed until 1pm. It felt so good to sleep the day away. Of course, that pile of dirty laundry in my laundry room would beg to differ (as would the kids as they are searching for some clean clothes to wear). But I felt good after 12 glorious hours of slumber. Vacation Bible School started this Sunday. We go at night from 6 to 8:30. They feed us and we play some games, make some crafts and sing some songs. It’s a lot of fun. Skyler even got up and was singing on the microphone. She has no fear. She is so cute. We go back tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday night. It should be a lot of fun. And we are meeting some new people. So it’s a good time.
I hope all of you survived your weekend too. I’m worn out and I’m going to take a nap!
