the last tournament of the summer

Just in case you can't tell who is who in the slide show below.....Michael is pitching and Alex is catching. It was a great weekend of baseball. The boys gave us some memories that will forever be some of my favorites. One, definitely was watching Alex go to Michael for a pitcher/catcher meeting in the game. Even though we didn't know what they were saying, it was so sweet to watch them encourage each other without any prompting. Michael also made a lay out catch as shortstop....it was so sweet. Now I am bragging, but that's what moms are suppose to do, right? well, these will be the last baseball pictures for a while, so enjoy!

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Pete turns 21???

air soft gun war

Just in case some of you might not know what air soft guns are....they are guns that shoot little plastic bullets, similar to a bb, but far less painful. We now have hundreds of these bright colored pellets in our backyard. On Tuesday this week, it was unusually cold, and we had thunderstorms off and on all day. The temp was near 80, but my kids thought it was winter. Since they were SOOOOO bored and couldn't go swimming, I gave into one of Alex's wild ideas and let them go to "WAR" in the backyard. We got down winter clothes so they could arm themselves, ski goggles, ets. They brought the trash cans out, winter sleds, boxes, anything they could think of to hide behind. Here are a few pictures of them in action. Just for the record, they did clean it all up by themselves, and I got to clean the house for a few hours. So, yes there is something to be gained about letting them go all out somedays! And in case any of you think I am crazy for letting my kids shoot at eachother, no one got hurt!

Happy Fourth of July from our family ot yours!