It's Baseball Season!

With boring ol' t-ball behind us Max's first season of Coach Pitch Baseball has begun.  Thank God!  Admit it, t-ball is SO slow...  

This year he is on the Cubs (yay, no white uniforms like last year!) and is loving it!  The games are so fun to watch too because the kids are actually starting to "get it".  The details:  Each inning they play a new position in attempt to get the other team out in three outs.  If they don't get three outs the inning ends when the hitting team scores 5 runs.  Each batter gets 6 pitches then a tee is brought out for ONE swing.  You miss, you're out.  Typically most kids can hit the pitch and the games move along just fine, although we have yet to get in the scheduled 6 innings in 90 minutes.  More like 4 innings get played.  

Max is having a great time and loves to hit!  The habit we need to get him to break is to watch the ball and the goings-on whenever he hits.  He watches everything and sort of trots to the base.  RUN, MAX!!!!  (that's what I am often heard screaming)  ;)  It's funny to watch him come into home plate as well because if there is a play he stops and lets the catcher try to catch the ball and tag him.  I told him last time that it's a race (he's competitive so this should help) and his goal is to beat anyone and everyone, including the ball, to the bag.  Do not stop and look.  Do not let them catch it.  Plow them over if need be.  We'll see how far he takes that advice.  He's not as aggressive as I am.  Thankfully.

We are looking forward to a fun season ahead... and he'll be busy with other sports too!  Swimming for CFY (long course) starts this week.  Dunsinane swim team starts May 29, 5 days a week plus two meets a week.  Tennis starts in June and it's three days a week.  Plus baseball... and don't forget summer camp!  

It all can't come soon enough for Max.  His favorite time of year... and mine!

A Little Bit of This and a LOT of That.

It's been so long since I posted I almost feel too overwhelmed to begin... I guess we'll practically skip right over March and just pick up in April?

I had spring mini-sessions at the end of March (many of you received an Easter card from us with some of those images) for 6 clients. For boys I set up an "Opening Day Baseball" themed scene (finally, something cute to get excited about for boys!) and when my work day was over I snapped a few of Max. He's such a good sport. Cute, right?

Spring came way early for us this year... an entire month! In March we had warm temps. That made for some fun outdoors with Max. He has been practicing his swing in both golf and baseball and is loving both sports. His first baseball game is this Thursday. Coach Pitch. FINALLY. We'll see if it makes the game more exciting. Tee ball is awful!

To end spring break we got to celebrate Easter weekend. On Saturday we invited our friends to go with us to a new egg hunt (as Max was quick to point out, "it's not really a hunt because they aren't hidden") in Lebanon. The fun part was a helicopter flew over and dumped tons of eggs onto the field. The kids thought that was extremely cool. I was a little worried about who was steering the thing when the pilot seemed to be using both hands to dump the eggs but whatever.

After the egg "hunt" we came home to color eggs. Max left a plate out for the Easter Bunny, since we didn't have carrots to leave him, and then we were off to church. The next morning Max found his basket of goodies by the door, just where the Easter Bunny left it.

On Easter afternoon we had the whole family over for our third annual Easter celebration. The weather was great, we ate lots of yummy food, and the kids got to hunt (yes, some were hidden!) for eggs filled with candy and money (score!).

We have also been doing several home improvement projects this spring... I guess we are at the three year itch (is that such a thing?) where I want to actually decorate. Our office will get the biggest makeover but it's not complete so that will have to wait for another blog post. Thanks to Pinterest I get all kinds of great ideas for our home! Starting with our covered patio... I have wanted outdoor drapes since we built this house but they are so expensive! Well wouldn't you know painter's tarps from Home Depot do the trick? They were the perfect length! We spray painted some pipes, hung them and used clips to hang our new outdoor "drapes". So perfect!!!!

Before... (well actually one drape on the far right is hung)

....and after

I also finally got around to filling the frames for one of many photo walls I want to create! Here is the before and after... we actually painted the kitchen for the third time as well. Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter. A beautiful, light gray that I want to use all over the house but Chris won't let me. You can see a bit of it in the after pic below by the door vs. the greeny-gray we had in the before photo.

Happy Spring, all! :)