4th of july

We had a pretty low key 4th of July this year. Matt, Amy, Logan and Maty all came over to eat supper and to watch fireworks. Later on that evening Brad and Jill and their boys came over too. We tooled around on the gator with the trailer hooked onto it and we all lounged in our chairs while Jared drove us around. We had a great time and enjoyed a great evening with some great friends.

My little Braylo

This little guy is growing up way too fast and is way to stinking cute. He is the only one of my kids that can sit and play all by himself for hours and not have to be going somewhere 24/7. I have really enjoyed watching him grow over the summer and it has been fun to see how much his personality has changed.

Little Braylo, mommy loves you so much and is so proud of what a big boy you are becoming.

Batting Cage

Jared has been thinking about building a baseball field in the pasture behind our house. Someone called us to tell us about a batting cage that was for sale in the paper. By the time we got the people called they had already sold it. Then one day Jared was chit chatting with someone and mentioned he was looking for a batting cage. Lo and behold this guy had one he wanted to get rid of. He had the netting that was 75' long, 13' wide and 10' high, an almost new awesome pitching machine, a bucket of the balls and a screen thing you stand behind so you don't get hit when they hit the ball, all for $300!!!!!! We were so excited about this deal that we stopped and got it all the next day. We still have to get the screen. Jared had some help from one of his friends Brad, Braylon and myself getting this bad boy up. After getting it up and together, Bronson was our first batter!

I am so excited about this awesome deal we got. Had we had to buy this all brand new it would have cost us around $1500. I am positive that we will get lots of good use out of it and I am sure a lot of our friends will too.

Stixx tourny in Columbia

The Stixx team played in a few tournaments this year. Everytime we go to a tournament Bronson and Braylon look forward to the swimming part of the trip! I don't blame them. They are actually very good when we go to the ball parks, but seriously they don't know any different. They have grown up around it pretty much all of their lives.



Braxton and some of his buddies were playing some game in the pool. They had to race across the pool with another person on their back. Whoever lost had to jump in the pool bocking like a chicken. It was hilarious!



Here they all are getting ready to jump in together bocking like chickens!
While Matt and Amy were watching Tyler play ball we kept Logan with us so he could swim and hang out with us. Him and Braylon had a great time together. This is them jumping on the bed after they woke up from their naps.
Little Miss Maty is so cute and is fantastic at all the games.
I LOVE this picture of my dad and jared's dad. Who would know what they were cracking up about!

This is the tournament where we ended up having to play at 10:00 and 11:15 at night due to the rain backing things up. We actually played better at that time of night then we had been playing when we played during the day. We thought maybe we were going to have to start requesting midnight games.
This is the ball that Braxton hit and got a triple out of it. He told me after the game that he thought he was getting faster because he made it all the way to third. I had to burst his bubble and tell him that I didn't think he was getting faster, I just thought he was hitting it further:) If you have ever watched him run, you know that he doesn't run fast. We are always teasing him and telling him to unhook the plow. He is a pretty good sport about it.
Here he is after flying around those bases to get to third on his hit!


The boys ended up getting third place and did a very good job. All of us parents were really excited to see that the Stixx were back and were playing ball like they knew how.

Because I love you Mommy

Braylon is such a sweet little boy. He is definitely a momma's boy. He likes to go with me where ever I go and if we are all sitting around the house, you will generally find him right next to me! I love that finally one of my boys is a momma's boy.

One night as we were sitting in the recliner he just looked up at me with his cute little grin and I said what are you smiling about....

and he said "Because I love you Mommy!"

It was the sweetest little thing I have ever heard. Talk about making a momma feel good!

Tallman Auto Parts

Bronson played for Tallman Auto Parts this year. He was actually suppose to still be in the 5 & 6 year old age group but we thought he might hurt someone when he hit in that age group so we moved him up to the 7 & 8 year old age group. He did great! He also got to have lots of his friends on his team and he also made some new friends. All in all it was a great year!

I love how I caught him blowing his bubble in this picture!

Brax's 2010 Baseball Season

It seemed like baseball season was here and gone in about 2 weeks. We live for this time of the year. We get all excited to go to all the league games during the week and then travel on the weekends to watch Braxton play for the Stixx.

But this year seemed..... different!

With all the rain it felt like a lot of our practices got canceled and we were having games here and there and not getting all of them in. But then I look back and realize that we did play most of our games. Braxton's league team had a tough year. I don't know if they just didn't want to play ball or if all the different schedules of playing, then not playing for a week, just threw them off and they never really got in the groove of playing ball. It wasn't a lot of fun to watch them play because they didn't act like they wanted to play and there was a lot of bickering between the teammates, my son included.

The coaches and parents were all just as aggravated and discouraged as the kids were. As a parent and coach you can talk to them till you are blue in the face and do what you think needs to be done, but if they don't have the want to or are not willing to give 110%, then why should we try and waste our breath?

Hopefully next year the kids will get their crap together and go out there and play some ball. They all have too much talent to be wasting it on doing nothing.

R & S Excavating (league team)

Here is a picture of Braxton pitching for his league team, R & S Excavating

Coach Jared

This picture cracks me up. He has a big ole grin on his face while up to bat. I don't remember who we were playing but if I had to guess his buddy Aaron Buford was on the other team and was pitching to him.

STIXX BASEBALL (traveling team)

Braxton plays first base for the Stixx

One of the Stixx's best fans, Maty!

We went to Quincy for a tournament. We were suppose to play on a Sat and Sun but due to RAIN we only got to play on Sunday and it was a single elimination game. We lost our first game so we didn't get to play anymore.

I am on the other team's side taking pictures of Braxton batting below. I couldn't get a good picture from our side so I had to go to the other side. I think this picture is funny because I had just yelled, "COME ON BRAX" and then he looked at me like... what are you doing over there. I guess I threw him off.

Looks like he was safe here.

I really enjoy watching my boys play baseball. I really hate for the season to come to an end.