Home from Costa Rica

Morry and I went to Costa Rica from Monday to Saturday.  We got back late last night as our plane was delayed in Houston because of weather.

The kids stayed with Grandma and Papa.

Today was spent unpacking and getting ready for the week.  I took the boys to the pool for a little while (even though it was only 70 degrees outside).  Morry took them later in the afternoon for haircuts.

Here are a few pictures from our trip.

Wet Day/Game

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

It threatened all day to rain.  It sprinkled at various times during the day.  So we drove rather than walk to school this morning.

Rachel did a bunch of cleaning today.

When we picked the boys up from school, we stopped at the Circle C Community Center to donate some stuff.  They were taking donations for Safe Place.

Rachel had to go tutor.  I gave the kids and early dinner since Evan had a baseball game.

It was raining the entire game.  It was very much like Seattle where it wasn't coming down hard enough to stop any action but the field was very messy, the ball was wet, the grass was wet.  Evan's team just seemed to be moving super slowly.  Evan led off the top of the 1st with a home run on some good base running.  The play actually shouldn't have been close but the infield was very muddy and really slowed Evan down.  But it was all down hill from there.  After taking a 1-0 lead the team didn't score another run the rest of the game.  I know that Evan was getting very frustrated - especially with some teammates.  But he never actually showed it to any of them.  But I know his body language.  I don't think it was obvious to anyone else.  He'll completely forget about it tomorrow and he'll be glad to get back to the team.

Noah had a good time at the game.  The older brother of a boy on Noah's team was on the team that Evan's team was playing.  So Noah spent the entire game with the boy from his team.  They seemed to have a good time.

The boys are now sleeping.

Until next time...

Noah is 6!!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

It was very easy to get Noah up this morning.  He was so excited it was his birthday.  He was born at 7:16am.  As we drove to school, it turned 7:16am and we all cheered.

For Noah's lunch, Rachel and I went into school and sat with him while he ate lunch and we gave out cupcakes to his classmates.  Noah really seemed to enjoy having us there.

We walked to pick the boys up from school.  We noticed in the parking lot of the Circle C Community Center, an ice cream truck was waiting.  We allowed the boys to get a popsicle from the truck.

At 4:30, Noah and I left for his game.  Noah had a good warm up. He was hitting the ball well.   It translated into another good game.  In the second inning he fielded a ball at shortstop and tagged second to get a boy out (which we have pictures of below).  In the third inning, as pitcher, he fielded a ball and saw the boy running to first was going slow so he ran over and tagged the boy.  He also got two hits and scored two runs.

After the game, we went to Logan's for dinner.  That's where Noah wanted to go.  Noah got steak.

We came home and we're about to put the boys to bed.

Until next time...