It's baseball Season . . .

Tommy and Spencer are having fun playing baseball this spring - Spencer 's team is 4 -0 and he has been pitching, playing catcher, short stop and he got a grand slam the last bat on 4-9-11!!  Tommy's team is 2-2- he hit a in the park home run on 4-9-11.   FUN!

We Interrupt this Blog for this important Sports Update:

Baseball: Tommy's team has won 2 lost 1, Spencer's team is 0 -3 : ( - but they are having fun and getting better.  Check out the photos:

Spencer gets to pitch ~ sometimes he is the starting pitcher.

Taylor and Spencer had their first Summer League Ice Hockey Games - they both tied  2-2, Here are some Roller Hockey pictures:

Take me out the Ball Park ...

part one:

Working on the Pictures ~

Going through my flower pictures I have been taking and the boys baseball pictures.

The Lions Lost ~ after a long game...

After the game - the coach talked to the boys under the bleachers to get them out of the sun.



Spencer's baseball team lost by one run in their first playoff game on Saturday, but it was a long game.  They played 9 innings and it was three and half hours long.  They kept tying and finally at the bottom of the 9th - the other team (Red Raiders) scored and the Lions lost 7-8.  It was such a great game.  Spencer didn't hit the first two bats, but his 3rd bat he hit a hard hit way out to the right field but the boy caught it.  Then Spencer caught a fly ball and got a boy out.  So baseball is over now.

Hockey update:

Tommy's team lost their first game yesterday 3-0 and Taylor's team won 3-1 and Taylor scored.  They goalie didn't show up and the first period they had to defend their net, then two goalies got there.  Taylor plays again today and Spencer has a game.  We will be watching the Rockets to-between games in SugarLand.

The Irish Lost - their season is over...

Last night, Tommy's team lost their 2nd playoff game and they are out.

Tommy had a big hit (see the photo - the ball is flying by the pickup truck) but that boy

there made a great catch before it hit the ground in the out field.  Anyway - it was a fun season.

Spencer's first playoff game is on Saturday.  Go Lions!

Baseball Update & a Big Banana Spilt

The boys got this big banana split at 59 Diner.


Tommy's team - the Irish,  had their fist playoff game last night and they won a "nail biter" 14-13.  So, their next game is Tuesday night.    They are in the 1st position in the Silver division.   Spencer has one more game from the regular season tomorrow morning. 

 It is a rain-out make up game. 

 Our big trip and our month in paradise (to relax - no school and  no driving to sports)

 is less than a month away - yeah!    Click here to check out where we are going.

~ Summer Hockey ~

Spencer had his first PW game at Willowbrook and they won - I heard Spencer played well.  I didn't make it to the game.  The Lions lost their baseball game on Saturday - the coaches want to practice more, but it is hard with all this rain.  Tommy's hockey team didn't have a game this weekend and Taylor's team won 4-3 over a Willowbrook team that had some of his old teammates on it.  It was fun seeing everyone.  All baseball is cancelled today - so I will update after the boys get to play some more games.

A lot has been going on....

Since Easter a lot has been going on - not much baseball.   It has been raining and games canceled.  But to catch up Spencer's team the Lion's lost their last two games by one point. Their record is 2-4-1 - they have a game today and Tommy's team lost two games and won today so they are 6-2. Way to go Irish.  Summer hockey has started.  Taylor and Tommy had games last weekend.  Taylor's team lost 4-0 (they were tired from Try -Outs) and Tommy's team won 7-0 and Tommy scored his first goal!  Spencer's first game is this weekend (he is playing PW - this is an older team for his age).  Speaking of Try-Outs - The Hitmen had their Bantam A try-outs on Saturday and Sunday and pretty much it was our team and a couple new boys trying out and we thought - it would be "us" all together again.  But we didn't know the plans our coaches had.     (I'm sure) they made phone calls all Sunday and Monday and had an additional try-out on Monday night and a bunch a big 7 good second year Bantam players came and Taylor and a number of very nice boys & good hockey players were cut from the team. I think they should have told us a head of time what their plans were.  It wasn't a nice way to treat the boys and they think they were cut for not being "big" enough - that is not a nice thing for a teenage boy to hear -it's like telling a girl she is too fat.  The Hitmen Organization is losing some nice families because of this.   Taylor just wants to play and have some fun.  The younger boys had try-outs too and  Spencer is on the Hitmen - TeamHouston Squirt  team and Tommy is on the Mite house team for the Hitmen.  It will be great to have them at the rink by our house and we won't have to drive to Sugar Land on school nights.

Taylor is going to take some time to decide what to do next season.  We are getting a lot of emails asking him to think about some different teams,  but we are not jumping into anything - he may play prep hockey, here in Houston.  He can decide in August.   He doesn't want to play for another organization for Travel Hockey - that is why he didn't go to their try-outs.  But the others are putting together a team and they sort of need him to have enough for the team.  We'll see ~

Last week all the kids had field trips, Tommy went to the Zoo, Spencer went to Mrs Baird's Bread and on Wed. Taylor went to Our Lady to Guadalupe to bring books to the school.  I drove some of the kids there.  It is a really pretty, old place.  Then on Friday, I drove to Austin with Taylor and some of his friends.  The 7th grade had a tour of the Capital - it poured down rain on the way there, but it was nice when we got there and we had fun.  See photos above!

Mid Week update ~ Baseball

See Papa and Nana in the back ground watching Spencer Bat ~
Tommy's team had a game on Monday night and they won (big) and now they are 5-0!  Way to go Irish.  Spencer's team played last night and they won so, now they are 2-1-1.  The Lions are making a come back!

The Luck of the Irish - The Roar of the Lions

 It was a busy day today- Spencer and Tommy each had a baseball game today.  They both play for Spring Branch - Spencer is a Pee Wee and Tommy is a Midget.  Spencer plays kid pitch and Tommy has a coach pitch.  Spencer's team (The Lions) lost their first game today, so they are 1-1-1 and Tommy's team (The Irish) is 4-0, they beat a team that was undefeated until today.  Taylor ran the 400 in a track meet that was at Rice University.   Spencer did some hockey clinic this morning too - try outs are coming up soon.

Spencer on 1st base...then he steals 2nd (his first steal) he couldn't wait to do that, this is the first year he can steal.


Tommy batting...

Red Gatorade Mustache 

Baseball 2009

I read and see a lot of Bokeh on flickr and other blogs and it is a photo of something (like a flower) but the back ground is blurry.  Well, here is my bokeh photo -  the focused part of the photo is the chain link fence (not a pretty flower) and Tommy is blurry in the background putting on the catchers gear before his first {scrimmage} game of 2009.

 I got a shot of Tommy as the catcher at his scrimmage game last night.  The coach moved the boys around and let them play different positions - it was a good game and nice to see the team in action.  They didn't keep score, but the team looked pretty sharp.  Tommy is on the Irish again and Spencer is on the Lions, {he moved up to PeeWEE}.   I will get some pictures of his game tomorrow.  Taylor has a track meet.  We get to stay in town, but still we have a busy Saturday. This is underlining again and I don't know why.