Gavin's Baseball Tournament

Waiting to take the field

Hitting a double!!!

Coming in for the run

Safe, make sure you touch the plate.

Since Gavin's baseball team finished the season 7-1-1, they did not have to play in the tournament until noon on Saturday. Saturday at noon, are you crazy?!?!? It is going to be hot. Good thing we played on field 2 which has some nice big shade trees. That was a semi-easy game. They won 13-4, which gave us a game at 6:45. A much better time to be playing baseball. This break proved to be a bad thing. We had beat this team in the regular season and they beat us. This put us in the loser bracket for the double elimination tournament. To win the championship, we would have to play 5 games on Sunday. Our first game was at 10:45 which we won 11-9, then we played at 12:50 and won 15-4 (Gavin hit a triple) and then played at 3:00 and lost 6-1. By the 3rd game, everyone was hot and tired. Our boys had been playing in the sun and wind for 4 hours. They had a good run, but with playing back to back games, our time was over. Gavin pitched 4 innings today and only allowed 2 runs. And only hit 1 kid. (2 innings were shut-outs). Of course, I did not bring my camera today. The pic above were from last night. I'm sad to see the season end, but I was not looking forward to sitting outside any longer tonight. Everyone's going to hit the showers when we get home, especially Liam. It looks like he had side burns there is so much dirt on his face.

The Dress & Hair

We look everywhere for a dress for graduation. Everytime I talked to April, I was on the hunt for a dress. Finally, we found it. We started with red, then pink, and finally settled on purple. I think this is a beautiful dress. After the dress we had nails and toes and lets not forget hair. Luckily, Steffani was able to create a hairstyle that was so classy and pretty without a picture. We only had one major incident with the hair while taking these pictures. Madison walked under a tree with a branch hanging down and pulled a curl loose. We both had a panic attack, but with a few more bobby pins we were able to fix her hair.

The back of her head

Graduation After Party

After the graduation ceremony, the parents of the 8th graders transformed the auditorium into an "American Idol" themed dance/karoke party. All of the kids has a great time even with the 20 minute delay while the karoke/dj set-up. They were held outside where they posed for numerous pictures, beat on the glass, and begged to be let in.

Please let us in.

Sydney & Madison

The boys

Once in the auditorium, the students were really surprised and ready to have a good time.

Eating the 6 ft sandwich

Once in the auditorium, the students were really surprised and ready to have a good time.

Girls dancing together

Boys dancing together

Nice place for a cell phone

The Chicken Dance

High School Already?!?!?!

Madison & Carly

Madison & Madalyne

Haley & Madison

High School Class of 2013

How can it be?!?! Madison had graduated jr. high and is now considered a "FRESHMAN". Time really has flown by. It seems like just a few months ago, she was a baby or at least in 1st grade. I know the next 4 years will go by just as fast, but I am hoping they drag on. The good thing about her class is they are pretty close. I'm sure she will still be friends with most of the kids once she is in college. When I was in school, there were about 10 kids all went to 4 yr old kindergarden through high school together. I am still good friends with one, Wendy. I will say smaller school does has its advantages.