UT Baseball and Pup Cup

Today Evan and Noah went to the UT baseball games.  There was a partial game first (a make up from yesterday's rain).  We dropped them off and then took Chewie to Hamilton Greenbelt.

We walked around for about an hour and then stopped at Black Rock on the way home.  The barista offered Chewie a pup cup (whipped cream) and he loved it.

We went home for a little bit and then went back out to pick up the boys.

They had a good time at the game.

From there we went to H-E-B and then picked up Torchy's for dinner.

Here are pictures from today.

Coach Evan

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, the organization that Evan plays baseball at, TRPD was putting on a clinic for a recreation baseball league in the area.  Evan's coach asked Evan to help coach the the clinic.  I took Evan to get donuts and then dropped him off at the field.

I came home and then Rachel and I got Chewie and drove out to Hamilton Greenbelt for a hike.  Chewie just loves it there.  For the first few minutes of the hike, he was pulling and barking.  Then we saw people with a dog on a leash coming the opposite way on the path.  Chewie and the dog smelled each other and Chewie calmed down.  It was as if he just wanted to see another dog.

After our hike, we drove to the baseball fields to get Evan. We asked him how it was working with younger kids.  He said the first group of kids were in a line in the drill he was running.  Somehow, one of the kids cut in front of another kid.  Evan did not think it was on purpose.  That caused the kid who ended up behind to cry.  Evan said he thought to himself, what am I supposed to do.  But Evan was very proud of himself and told us he got the boy to stop crying within 30 seconds and they were back to doing the drill.

On the way back, we stopped at Goodwill to drop off some donations.  Then we drove to Black Rock and got some drinks.

Rachel and I ate our lunch outside on the back patio.  Then we talked a bit more about what we want the backyard to look like.

When dinner time rolled around, we decided to pick up food from La Posada.  That's what the boys wanted.  Rachel, Chewie and I went to pick it up.  We also picked up food for Grandma and Papa.  We dropped it off for them on the way home.

We just ate dinner.  The boys are now upstairs playing video games while Rachel is vacuuming.

Until next time...

Full Week

Hello everyone, this is is Morry.

We had a full week this week.  On Monday it was back to meetings for me.  Evan and I went to HEB after school and work to get food for the week.  It was crazy crowded at the store.  We had dinner at home and then Evan had a hitting lesson with Justin.

On Tuesday, I took Grandmom to have an endoscopy.  Rachel taught.  Luckily Evan's baseball practice was canceled in the evening which helped.  Rachel still had a long afternoon and evening of tutoring.

On Wednesday, Grandmom stopped by to bring the boys a Playstation 5.  The boys wanted one for Hanukkah and Grandmom was able to get one from eBay.  In the afternoon, Evan went and coached the younger kids.  I stayed out at TRPD and had a meeting and talked to my siblings.

Thursday was a little easier.  I had fewer meetings and we didn't have any baseball.  Rachel did have a very long stretch of tutoring that started at 3:30 ended at 7:30.

On Friday, after work, I took Evan to Marucci with Josiah and his dad John.  After that we picked up pizza from Austin Pizza Garden which is going out of business after 27 years.

Yesterday, Evan had bullpens at TRPD.  Rachel and Chewie came with us.  We stopped at Donut Taco Palace and then took at walk on the Hamilton Greenbelt after dropping Evan off. 

We came home and had lunch and then I took Evan to the park to play baseball with Reid.  He stayed over Reid's house last night.  For dinner, we had Cypress Grill.  Papa picked it up for us.

Today, I went golfing with a bunch of dads from Evan's baseball. I played much better this time.  Our team came in second out of three foursomes.

I picked up Evan on the way home.

Rachel, Evan and I went to HEB for food.  For dinner, we had Torchy's.

Rachel is cleaning now and then we'll sit down.

Until next time...

Hike with Chewie

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Today Evan began off-season throwing and hitting training at TRPD.  It's basically a way to stay in shape and get ready for high school baseball tryouts.  It was at the facility in Lakeway at 9am.  So Rachel and I decided to take him and then go hiking on the Hamilton Greenbelt in Lakeway with Chewie.  

On the way out to the facility, we stopped at Donut Taco Palace.  Evan got two donuts and Rachel got a taco.  On the hike, Chewie was just so happy.  It was cold this morning (in the 40s) so no one was out hiking and it felt like, at times, we had the whole trail system to ourselves.  Chewie was in his element.  He loves to hike on trails and he especially likes it when it's not hot.  We hiked for close to an hour and a half.  Chewie never got tired.

Then we drove to pick Evan up.  It took Evan some time to be ready, but Chewie was happy to see Evan when he got in the car.

On the way home, we stopped at Black Rock Coffee where Rachel got a coffee, Evan and I got smoothies, and Noah got a lemonade.  While we were in the drive thru picking up the drinks, Chewie pushed through and was standing on the middle console between Rachel and me so he could see the woman working at the drive thru.  She gave him a dog treat.  He was really happy.

We relaxed most of the afternoon.

Late in the afternoon, we had an arborist come by to give us an estimate on trimming our trees.

For dinner, we picked up Via 313 for Rachel and me and Subway for the boys.

Rachel is now making fudge.

Until next time...

Fall Weekend

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Yesterday, Evan played two baseball games in Liberty Hill.  That is about 45 minutes, or so, northwest of the city. Rachel's cousin, Lauren, and her family live there.  Rachel's Aunt, who is going through chemo, has been staying with them.  Rachel decided to join us to watch Evan play and also visit with Aunt Susan.

Rachel dropped Evan and I off at the field for warmups while she went to Lauren's.  She sat in the backyard with Aunt Susan.  She said Aunt Susan looked good.  Her coloring was good and she seemed in a good mood.  She had shaved her head as her hair has begun to fall out.  Rachel said it was a nice visit.

In the two games, Evan was 4-6 with several RBIs.  He played third base the entire first game and catcher the entire second game.  In the first game, he had one play at third base.  On a steal the catcher threw a little wide of third base.  Evan caught it and made a nice dive to tag the runner out.  The coach was very pleased with Evan's athletic tag.  At catcher, only one runner tried to steal on Evan.  Unfortunately, the shortstop dropped the ball or Evan would have thrown him out. 

We come home for a bit, then went out and picked up dinner.  We got dinner from Cypress Grill.

We didn't have anything that we needed to do today.  So Rachel and I decided to go the Hamilton Greenbelt and take Chewie for a while.  Chewie was able to splash around in the creek there.  He was quite happy.

On the way home, we stopped at Black Rock Coffee.

Evan and I watched the Steelers game.  It was a tense game.  Noah didn't want to watch because every time he watched last week, the Steelers played poorly. He'd come downstairs to check on the game and see how things were going.

We got pizza from Domino's.  Then we went to HEB to do our weekly shopping.

The boys are playing on the Playstation now.