New team for Renee!

Renee recently switched teams. She is still playing for the same organization, just with a different group of girls. This was their first tournament together. In fact, this is from their first game together. I had the camera and camcorder all charged up and the disk with plenty of space...I was ready. Like I said it is a new team, this new group had no one scheduled to keep the score book. I had one, so I ended up keeping the book. That means not many pictures. Half of the ones I took focused on the fence instead of the girls. Here are the few that turned out.

Renee played short stop in the first game and batted second. She had a tremendous across the body diving catch for a 3rd out in on e inning. She got on base with every at bat. She scored both runs her team earned. Her third at bat she hit a beautiful triple down the first base line. Her team played really well, but ended up losing all three of their games on Saturday. The second and third games she played 2nd base. She has a lot more experience with 2nd base.

Lauren played the role of Cheerleader. Here she is in her "Rally Tape". She and another of her teammates, who also has a sister on Renee's team, used my Teal Duct tape and Sharpie to decorate themselves with all of the players numbers. They had fun and made the girls laugh.

So, this is how the rest of my pictures turned out. It was nice fencing, but, really?

When we got home, Renee is in the shower and we here her say, "Really!!" Yes, she really ran out of water. Nope, no water and it's dark out. Rod went out for a look and said there were a bunch of ants in the thingies. Rod, Lauren and I got as clean as the swimming pool could get us. Our appliances like the Holiday weekends too. Last summer it was the AC going out on the Saturday of the 4th of July weekend. Wanna call a well guy on Labor Day weekend? Me neither.

Rod and Lauren were able to get it running again while Renee and I were at the fields Sunday morning at 6:45am. Her team had the 8:00am game. They played a higher seed and won! The coaches and parents were really pleased. The girls felt pretty good about themselves too. They had a 12:30pm game against the 1 seed. They lost that one 2-4. It was really a close game.

We were so proud of how well Renee played. She had fun and played with so much confidence. She could hit anything this weekend! Go High School White!!

Who's having more fun?!

Labor Day weekend is all about getting outside and having some fun! Rod had a blast with this!

The girls had even more fun! We weren't sure if they were liking it or not...but, Lauren kept saying, "Go around again!!" They were giggling like a couple of two year olds! So, to my friends and family with little ones, don't worry, some fun stuff they never outgrow. Get ready Konrad, the girls can't wait to have you take a ride with them!

If you look where the shovel is that, that is where I was digging for the new fire pit. The tall weedy area on the left is my "garden". I do have a thriving Rosemary bush growing in there. When it cools off a bit more I may put in some broccoli. Right now it's still too hot.

Baseball Fans!

I know I've mentioned this before, but our Renee is a Red Sox fan. For her Birthday this year we got her tickets to a Rays vs. Red Sox game. We have talked about doing this for a while, but we never did it.

Renee wore her Ortiz shirt and cap. There were actually a lot of Red Sox fans in the stadium. The game was completely sold out.

I know it looks like I must have run up to a really high spot to take this picture, but no, I did not. This is where our seats were. We were in section 308, Row G, Seats 3-6. I was nervous, but they were actually excellent seats. It was the fact that we were in G and not MM (that's for MMmmmMM, my nose is bleeding).

Lauren, Rod and I cheered for the Rays. As did this guy who was sitting a couple of rows behind us. Sometimes the crowd was pretty anti-Sox, but overall they behaved themselves. We had so much fun!!

The Rays won the game with a walk off home run in the bottom of the 10th. Excellent game! We got to see an awesome somersaulting catch in Center Field by Boston - it made the #6 play of the week on ESPN. We saw security tackle a guy on the sidelines who was headed for the field. (The crowd was chanting, "Tase him! Tase him!" Ruthless.) A bat split and fly way too close to Evan Longoria. Home run hits by BJ Upton, a Boston guy and Dan Johnson in the 10th. We learned the value of letting a foul ball be a foul ball when it's hit deep to right and there is a guy on third. (Renee really hated that one!) Oh, yeah! And $40 doesn't go very far at the ballpark when you're hungry and thirsty!

We definitely want to go again!!

Baseball!

We got there way early!

We got to watch batting practice. You can see here how good our seats are.

During the 1st inning we start to hear the thunder and see the dome ripple in the wind. We really would have thought the roof would be solid. But, we did not get rained out! That would have really stunk! Yeah for domes!

See just how excellent our view was during the game!