A Thousand Words Thursday

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Today's thousand word Thursday post needs a few words with it. There's a special reason for this picture. Yesterday afternoon, my dad fell and broke his hip! He is in the hospital and will have surgery tomorrow afternoon. This picture was from last Halloween and it makes me smile to see him standing tall and looking happy - because he looks so small and helpless in the hospital bed.

So if you are reading this, could you please say a prayer for him? A prayer for the surgery and a prayer for his recovery. A hip is a tough thing to recover from but for him - he has diabetes and Parkinson's disease - it's going to be a long, hard road. We would appreciate any prayers!! Thank you!!

(And for those of you that might be confused after my Father's Day post - this is my stepfather but he has always loved me like I was his own! It doesn't always take blood to make you family - LOVE makes you family!!)
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And the season comes to an end...

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Well, sadly, we lost our game on Saturday. It was really hot and our kids seemed to be "down" from the beginning. They pretty much beat themselves. It was a shame. They started off strong, scoring 4 runs at our first up to bat. But the other team answered with 4 and then 4 more and then 5 more and didn't allow our kids to score. We did rally and come back for another 4 or 5 runs, but it just wasn't enough.

Our kids have nothing to be sad about though! It was a long season and they made it quite a distance!!! We loved the games and watching the kids play, but it will be nice to get our lives back to a normal schedule!

And so...Mason started football camp this morning!! LOL!!! (It's just a 3 day - 3 hour each - mini camp, but he'll love it!!) He's my little sports fanatic (he's a mini Uncle Mike!!) :)

We are really proud of him!! :)
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WE WON!!!!

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They did it!!! They won the game 9-3!!! It was a great game - kind of laid back and real easy!!

So now they play tomorrow afternoon (change in the schedule) against a very good team - #3 team in the league (we are #4). So keep your fingers crossed. I really hope they can pull it off. It would be SO awesome to come back and end up in the finals!!!

I'll keep ya posted!! :)
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STRIKE, SAFE, OUT.....

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These are the words I hear the most lately!!! LOL!!

We are into playoffs for Mason's baseball team this week and it has been CRAZY!!! Monday night a game - it got rained out halfway through so we had to finish it Tuesday night. Unfortunately they lost that game. But it's double elimination (phew)!! Wednesday night's practice got rained out (thankfully). We had our second game last night and those kids came out charging and won 18-3!!!!! It was awesome!!!

So now we play again tonight. We SHOULD beat this team (we beat them in the regular season) but it will all depend on the kids. (Fingers crossed!) If we win tonight, we play again tomorrow morning. If we win that, we play tomorrow night. If we win THAT game, we play again Monday night and that might be the championship game. However, if we lose tonight - we are done.

I have loved this season. Mason being on the bigger kids team has been so exciting. As much as I look forward to getting back to a normal schedule and getting the kids to bed at a decent hour, I will miss this. It's been a great family event for us (Rex coaching, Mason playing, Syd and I in the stands cheering!!! And that little girl is a great cheerleader. She knows all the kids names, she's learned what to yell and when!! She's awesome!!) It's been so nice to do these things together as a family and I will be sad to see it end.

I'm really proud of how much Mason has grown through the season. Last night he pitched the entire game and only walked 3 batters and of those 3, 2 of them were at Full Count. He struck out 7 batters. He did fantastic. He's hitting the ball now and he's been doing great. He has so many nicknames this year - Deuce (he's number 2), M&M (obvious), Flash and Wheels (cause the boy can RUN!!!!! He is FAST!!!! You wouldn't know it by his size, but he can FLY!!!) I'll be anxious to see if any of the nicknames stick for next year!!! I'm proud of you bug!!!! :)

WAY TO GO AFC!!!!!!
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A Thousand Words Thursday

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Happy Birthday Mikey!!!

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(Mason, Mike and Sydney at Disney)

Happy Birthday "baby" brother!! Still hard to believe sometimes that you are all grown up. You've come so far -wondering for so long what was in store for you. Now you have what you've always dreamed of. It took longer than you wanted, but I know it was worth the wait. This is an exciting year for you. You married girl of your dreams (and gave me an incredible sister) and now you are going to have a baby girl!!! Can you imagine? God has blessed you so richly and I couldn't be happier for you. You are SUCH an important part of my life and the thing that sucks is that you live so far away!!! I wish we could all live near each other so we could watch our kids grow up together. That would make it perfect! But we will have to take what we can get. No matter how far you may be, you are always in my heart and I love you so much!!!
We miss you both and hope we'll see you soon!! I hope your birthday is magical!!!! xoxoxo


(Syd, Mike, Shannon, Mason at Mom's house)
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

Father's Day was a beautiful day!! The weather was gorgeous and we had a nice day. After church, we took Pop Pop to breakfast (Happy Father's Day Dad) and then came home and celebrated with Rex.

The kid's each made him an "All About My Dad" booklet. There were questions that they answered and drew pictures to go with their answers. They both had so much fun and their answers were so cute!! It was a great idea!!! (Thanks Care!!!)

Here's Daddy looking at Sydney's book:


Mason was so proud to show Daddy what he had made:


Sydney also answered some "Dad" questions at school. (Things like How Old is your dad...*23*. How much does your dad weigh...*25 lbs* and how tall is he...*13 ft*!! It was hysterical!!)


I tried so hard to get a nice picture of the three of them together. I asked and asked them to sit together so I could get one, but Daddy does NOT like to have his picture taken. So he continued to tickle the kids and I must have taken 20 pictures trying to get one. (Ay yi yi...)


And this is what I ended up with - which honestly, is beautiful to me!! Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband and the best Daddy!!! xoxoxo


I thought about my dad today too, who has been gone for almost 11 yrs. It's hard to believe it's been so long. Breaks my heart that he never got to see his beautiful grandchildren. But I hope he has a "window" in heaven and can look down to see them. I still miss him. I love you Dad!!