Baseball & Woodshop

You may have been wondering what we have been up to since it has been so long since I posted. Me, I haven't been up to much other than major hay fever, sinus congestion and itchy eyes. The weather here has been really warm, and I always get this way when the weather starts to heat up like that in the spring.

Meanwhile, Dennis has been coaching Cooper's baseball team. They finished the regular season in 2nd place (out of 4 teams) and that's the way they ended the recent seasoning tournmant. In fact, all four teams ended in the same spot. The tournmant was a nail biter though, especially the last game. They were playing the #1 team and needed to win two games to stay in. Dennis is a pretty mellow coach and I think the parents and kids like him. These pictures are not from that game howevernnis figured it was going to be a blowout because he had used up the alloted number of pitches for both his best pitchers, so they couldn't pitch in the game. He had to use the B team pitchers. They performed incredibly well. Dennis' team lead the whole game and it had to go into extra innings when they were tied at the end of 6 innings. At the last at bat for the #1 team, we had the lead and they needed to score two points to win. The son of Dennis' assistant coach was pitching. He's just this little, itty-bitty kid (about the same size Tucker was at that age probably) and he got two outs on them and we still had the lead. It looked like we might just pull it out, but alas, it was not to be. The other team won on a very close throw to 1st base followed by them stealing home to win when eveyone wasn't paying attention after missing getting the out. Kind of a cheesy way to win if you ask me. The boys were a little disappointed naturally, but Dennis did a good job of building them up and pointing out how amazing it was that they played so well with the not-so-good pitchers.

The baseball pictures of Cooper are not from that game however. That was a hot Saturday afternoon. Cooper played catcher the whole game. He traded off playing catcher with another boy on the team. He did a pretty good job of it too. Takes after his mom & dad since we both played catcher when we played baseball. Cooper actually had an amazing triple in the final tournament of game. He's a pretty decent batter when he watches the ball or doesn't swing at high pitches. We were all ready for the season to be over. The games were every Wednesday & Saturday from mid-April through May and they were usually long and painful to watch (lots of walks). The final game started at 6pm and didn't end until 9pm.

This other picture is of Tucker's latest creation in Woodshop. He was quite proud of it. I think he took this picture

so he could post in on Facebook. I think he did a really good job on it. He made me a smaller candle holder for Mother's Day. It looks equally as nice, though much smaller. I am getting the feeling that he is not going to be a desk job kind of kid. He works two jobs now, one at a local Safeway and the other at the local fruitstand where he worked last summer. He totally loves the hard work and he does work hard at the fruitstand.

I guess if I was fair, I would give Spencer some equal billing but I've already posted a goofy self-portrait of him in an earlier post and that's still pretty much what's available picture-wise. He left his camera on the coffee table recently and Dennis was checking out what pictures he had, which Spencer calls "creepy", but if he didn't always take pictures of himself maybe it wouldn't be so "creepy". Once again they were all mostly self-portraits, some of which gave us quite a chuckle. Such a funny kid. Maybe when he is at "Idaho camp" his aunt help him learn to take pictures of things besides himself!!