Hooray

It is that wonderful and marvelous time of year.  School is winding down!  I know I am done with the school year when I start letting my kids stay outside playing until after the usual 8:30 bedtime.  I know I am done when I don’t really care if they wake up on time, hence this morning I was convincing both of them to get out of bed at 8:08.  I cheered when Brandon left this morning prepared to give his FINAL book presentation (although I now see he left one of his props on the counter).  Those monthly book presentations for BOTH boys have been too much!  I don’t care about homework anymore, if it gets done great, if not oh well.  Nights should be spent at the ball park, not doing homework.

I love beyond words that the temperature is supposed to reach 74 today.  I just might cry thinking about it.  I have big plans for today, trying to rake up the rest of my front yard and……………..if all goes well this is where you will find me and my book this afternoon!

Dinner time

Unless someone is coming over to eat, I never make dinner on Sundays.  Most Sundays we are going somewhere or people are coming here and I spend the whole afternoon cooking, so when those things aren’t happening we just have whatever.  Yesterday Brandon and Jacob decided that they didn’t want to get stuck eating whatever they could come up with so they told me they were making dinner and for me to leave the kitchen area.  I gladly left them to it.  They made homemade belgium waffles, pancakes and buttermilk syrup.  It was so cute.  Everything tasted great and I didn’t make them serve a fruit or vegetable, very rare for me.  They did a great job and I am very proud of them.

Busy boys.

Jacob worked hard as the actual cooker.

And Jonah helped by taste testing.

 

Happy Easter

We don’t ever have big plans for Easter.  My family doesn’t get together and do a fun egg hunt or party.  I always think we should, I just think about it the day of Easter instead of at a time when I could plan it.  Maybe next year, but I doubt I will remember!

Jonah’s primary teacher invited his class to a little hunt at her house on Saturday.  She also invited Brandon and Jacob to hide the eggs.  They all had a good time and came home with really good candy.  I was absent from the hunt due to the fact that I was running 9 miles pretty much ALL straight up this mountain we live on.  

Later in the day my brother Michael’s girlfriend, Megan, invited the boys to a party at her sister’s house.  So off they went and came home hours later with TONS of candy and money filled eggs.  They had a blast and consumed more sugar than should be consumed in an entire year.  Brandon came home saying, “welcome to pre diabetes camp”.  Great.

That night we colored our eggs.  Brandon and Jacob participated for about 3 minutes and then Jonah colored and re colored the eggs for about a half an hour.  He had a great time.

Sunday morning the Easter bunny came with a few little things and even fewer candy (the Easter bunny couldn’t stand the thought of them having more!)

Jacob was pretty sick so he didn’t get to go to church, and that is why he was not dressed appropriately in our picture.

And we ended the day with a low key dinner at my sister’s house, because we were all worn out from big affairs.

Baseball Again!!!

I have to report on Jacob's first game of the season. Yesterday morning I told Jacob, "Don't plan on playing today, it is supposed to rain and snow." Much to everyone's surprise it did not rain and snow and the game was played. It was FREEZING, I sat huddled with Jonah in my winter coat and 2 blankets. Then I would get too nervous and have to get up and pace back and forth while Jonah cried for me to hold him again.

Jacob and Brandon both play "up" in baseball. They have summer birthdays and are supposed to be a certain age by April, but they want to play with their classmates so we let them play up.




Jacob's first game in the minor league and he pitched. I was not as nervous as I should have been. His first time EVER pitching to real batters. He did great. Struck out a few, walked a lot, caught pop flys. After pitching 2 innings he moved to catcher. I don't know why, but I get way more nervous when my kids play catcher. He also had a great hit that unfortunately was caught, but he got on base another up by walking and scored for the team. I had to leave a few minutes early with the score tied. Apparently Jacob's team won by some no time to finish the inning rule.


Ah, so good to be back at the ball park. If the weather warms up and my nerves can take it, it will be a great season.

Baseball!!!

The baseball season officially started yesterday at our house. I had been running here and there all afternoon (not literally running, driving, I did run in the morning though). As I tried to remember all the things we needed for a baseball game I was a little frazzled. I got to the park sat down at Brandon’s game and was in heaven for the next hour and 15 minutes. I LOVE it! So fun to watch. Brandon did awesome, even with his one eye partly swollen closed. He played first base the whole time, had a great long hit that unfortunately got caught and got hit in the arm at his next up to bat. He now has a swollen and bruised arm to match his eye!

I am keeping my fingers crossed that Jacob’s first game Thursday evening will not be cancelled. And crossing more fingers hoping the weather will WARM up!

Ha, I almost forgot to mention that his team won! We are so used to never winning that I forgot to mention it. 9-8 for the Dodgers after being down 3-8 going into the last inning. And yes Brandon was one of those runs home!

Always something

Brandon and Jacob asked us to move the trampoline underneath the basketball hoop on Sunday.  I said, OK, but I know someone is going to get hurt.  We moved it and then Bryan and I went on a walk.  As we were heading back I got a call from Jacob.  He said, hurry home Brandon fell off the trampoline.  I said, Did he break his arm? “No”.  Did he break his leg? “No”.  Is he conscious? “No”.  He isn’t conscious??????  “Well do you want to talk to him?”  I said, no goodbye I will see you soon.  We got home and they thought they were so funny and that they had tricked us, we weren’t concerned at all.  Brandon had hurt his finger a little bit and they got a kick out of it.

So about an hour later Jeffrey Beck comes over for a little visit.  What happens when a Beck boy is around?  This is what happened to Jacob a few years back when Ryan threw a baseball at him.

So back to Sunday night.  I hear someone crying really loud outside and I think it must be a neighbor.  I then glance out back and see Jeff laughing and Brandon on the ground.

Jeff threw Brandon a pass and Brandon dunked it (on the ground) when he came down he hit his face on the edge of the trampoline….hard.

Here it was yesterday morning.  He made it through half the day of school and then called me to come and get him.  He couldn’t read and had a really bad headache…….really????

This morning is opens a bit more and it much more blue, but he wouldn’t let me take any more pictures.  Jonah has prayed that he is thankful for Brandon’s goofy eye.  Too bad there isn’t a really good story to go along with the injury!

Will it really?

A friend bore her testimony on Sunday and in it she said, “I know spring will come (meaning warmer weather) because it always does”.  Yes I have faith, but this year will it really come?  Will we have more than one semi nice day a week?  It is April 15th, there is snow on my grass.  It was 32 degrees when I went running this morning, my winter running gear is getting very very worn out.

Wednesday was a semi nice day.  I hauled and hauled and hauled garbage, wood, branches and other junk that had accumulated on the side of my house over the winter to the front yard for spring clean up.  Side note, I don’t know what gives me more joy, spring and fall clean up days or recycle garbage days.  Anyways the day was nice, we had our lawn pooped, the wind started howling and soon there was 2 inches of snow on the grass.

I am not going to complain, I am going to think positive warm weather thoughts.  I am not going to plan on being warm until June.  I am going to hope that when baseball games start next week the field is dry.  I am going to enjoy summer even more than I know I already will.  I love super warm weather.