Spring Cleaning and More Baseball

DeA complains about Leo a lot, but he is who she looks for when she needs snuggles. She used to treat me that way, but I've been replaced.

The youth did a service project at Sis Kenck's. There was a lot of shovel leaning and pointing by the workers.

Lil' Luca loves beverages and always begs for a drink when he sees someone else with one.

When I told Rock that he should start preparing for college, I didn't mean pizza for breakfast.

Life is busy, but sometimes we get to be together and enjoy dinner. But this wasn't one of those times, Rock was still at practice and I was about to go pick him up. 

The busy days and early mornings have DeA worn out. This was at 7:30 on our crazy Friday night together.

Rock and his team had a doubleheader against Oroville, I got to make hot dogs. My crew did a great job helping while I checked out a kid for a concussion.

Rock had a single and ran the bases well.

Sunday was a family day...of more baseball. 

If spending time as a family on our front dirt yard and hitting baseballs is inappropriate on the Sabbath then maybe I don't know the rules very well.

Jens is getting pretty good at hitting the almost wiffle balls that the machine shoots out.

Even Schnoogies took some cuts.

MHS played a single game up in Oroville, and Rock and another kid rotated every inning between catcher and 3B. Rock played a really good third, he has better hands than I ever had.

He walked in his one at bat.

 

Rock and I enjoyed our week, but we were excited to pick up the family on Saturday. We drove over to Monroe Friday night and stayed at the hotel that Mom and Dad love because of their breakfasts. 

Leo was a huge fan of the cinnamon roll waffles

After we grabbed the family, Ryker and I found donuts.

It was a lot of fun at Nick and Emily's. The girls fought over attention from grandmas and aunts

Emily had them color eggs with cool whip and food dye.

We made lemonade with lemons smuggled in from Whit's

Ryker experimented with a new way to tie his tie.

On Sunday we enjoyed a quiet Easter, at least until ash face showed up

It was a cool but calm evening and everyone wanted to be outside.

Luca wants to be outside at all times.

And he loves four-wheeler rides.

And fires. He loves fires.

Good thing Grandpa had the job supervisor keep close watch.

 

Baseball and Spring Break

Rock has been playing fairly regularly on varsity, not bad for a freshman

Rock had a triple header one Saturday, and in the car on the way home all three kids asked if we could play catch, field grounders, pitch, etc, so we spent all evening playing more baseball. Well, most of us did, Luca wanted "mo" four-wheeler rides.

Even Leo Puppy got involved.

DeA was gone that weekend with Nama and my sisters hanging out in Nashville. Ryker was so excited for her to get hot Nashville chicken at Hattie B's

DeA was home for a few days, then left for Arizona with Ryker and Jens. Rock and I had a good conference weekend.

He requested eggs benedict, they turned out pretty, pretty good.

He surprised me by asking to make donuts, since that is our tradition but his siblings were gone.

They turned out delicious.

We helped Javi pull out some metal sticking up out of the driveway. Glad my tire didn't find that thing.

We ordered a cheap pitching machine and had family batting practice after conference.

It was very cold and frigidly windy.

Rock came to work with me on Monday, he made himself feel right at home.

We took the pitching machine down to the field and took BP with the Lehmans

Max and his parents also came and showed off their Cuban baseball skills.

Luca had fun.

We spent every night at the field hitting, Rock got quite a few cuts in over the week