Revolution Baseball

Cade made the All-Star team again this year and it made for quite the busy springtime having all three of the kids playing on all-star teams. We managed it though! 

The Revolution was a great group of kids. We had a rough season but it's hard to throw a group together with only a few weeks of practice and put them up against travel teams that have played together for years. Overall we did pretty well. 

Cade hit well this season but not up to the potential I know he has. He has a monster bat in there just waiting to come out!! I've seen it in the back yard!

 He was also one of the teams starting pitchers which makes me so incredibly nervous for him. I can remember feeling the same way when his dad was pitching in high school! Cade really came along this season though and I was VERY proud of several of his pitching outings. 

 Bobby offered some condolences after Cade had his first home run hit off of him. Bobby had been there, done that and knew he had to pump Cade up so he could get back out there and pitch well for his team. He sucked it up and ended up pitching an incredible rest of the game.

Serious face base running.

 I love to see Bobby working with all the boys on their baseball skills. He's such a wealth of knowledge when it comes to that. And, even though the boys get frustrated at him at times, there is a noticeable difference in the way the perform when he's not there.....especially Cade. He loves his dad's encouragement when he's on the field. 

Another season down, and I'm pretty sure MANY, many more to come:)

Summertime Cuteness

Just makin' good use of our new back yard:)

Eighteen Holes

After hiking to the golf course the other day, Bobby was sad that he had not signed up to golf. Our flight wasn't leaving until later in the afternoon so, after contemplating it over a very mature looking breakfast with the morning paper, I encouraged him to make a tee time and get in 18 holes with me as his caddy. 

It didn't take much convincing! I know he was glad that he decided to get out there and golf. When else will the opportunity arise to golf such an outstanding course? Who knows. 

There was no place I'd rather have been that day than sitting in the golf cart watching my man play golf.  I love the special time we get to spend together and I love one on one time with him away from our busy schedules. 

Hawaii has been a great refresher. Now it's time to head home!

Just Another Day in Lanai

We rented paddle boards and boarded in the little cove close to the hotel. That's a great workout! We have no pictures of the actual paddle boarding because we were both in the water. And, for the record, if we did have some sort of camera I would not have wanted Bobby to have it. 

Why? Because he fell off of his board no less than 25 times (to my, say, 3). Finally! Some sort of physical activity that I was better at than him! 

  This cove behind us is a dolphin sanctuary where dolphin come to rest and feed their young away from danger. That made for some awesome paddle boarding. I just sat down on my board and watched them swim not 5 yards from me.  

I found this heart shaped rock after we finished paddle boarding. Awwww.....such love abounds:)

Bobby and I just sat at the beach almost until the sun went down. Then it was time to stroll up to the hotel and get ready to eat. That was pretty much our days....sleep, sit by the ocean, eat, and then sleep. Wonderful! 

There was a luau the last night on the hotel grounds. We were given leis again and I received a little charm of a hula dancer.

Then we capped off the night watching real hula dancers! It was kind of cheese ball but still, when you're in Hawaii you should at least see some hula dancing, right??

After this we decided that Hawaii was fantastic but we missed our little people. It was time to head back to the crazy grind. Turns out, we actually like the crazy grind:)

Crusin' a Catamaran

We took a catamaran snorkeling ride one afternoon. With the wind blowing from the catamaran it was a little chilly for my taste! 

There were some pretty sights though....imagine that!

I saw more dolphin than I've ever seen in my entire life. They were everywhere! 

We did some snorkeling and the water was not warm and cozy like I had imagined. I saw a few pretty fish but was actually disappointed in our snorkling area. I thought I caught a glimpse of a sea turtle so I swam like mad trying to catch up with that thing. Do you have any idea how hard it is to catch a sea turtle? Im.possible. Then I started having flashbacks of that awful movie Open Water and decided I better keep my eyes above the surface so I didn't get left behind. Don't think I didn't ask our boat captain if he'd seen the movie and what plans he had to keep there from being a sequel (or a trio, because unfortunately I think there's already a sequel). 

So, the bad news was that I didn't see many fish. But the good news is that I didn't get left behind and eaten by a shark. Neither did Bobby. Win.

Maui Wowee!

We spent the better part of our time in Maui just sitting here in big covered chairs watching the ocean. Why would you ever want to leave this view? Plus someone was coming around with water and cool towels for our faces so really, why would you ever, ever want to leave?? If we didn't have kids at home or jobs I'm pretty sure we'd be sitting right here until kingdom come.

We did rise from our duffs to take a hike or two and it was well worth the time.  Just ever so slightly strenuous but not exhausting and the scenery made it all worth it. 

This is Sweetheart Rock. The color of the water here was un.be.lievable. 

This was back on the golf course side of the island but these pictures are out of order so I'm just going to roll with it:)

The view from one of Bobby's favorite holes on the course. 

The hike on this side of the island ended at the golf course and there wasn't a soul to be seen golfing there. We had a little fun doing cartwheels and such:)

Back to earlier on the Sweetheart Rock trail:

Bobby went very close to the edge but my heart started beating too fast for my liking and I suddenly had a terrible fear of falling into the water below and leaving my children with no mother so I stayed back....far, far back. And I begged Bobby to please back away. He ignored me.

I did do a handstand there. Handstand in Hawaii. Boo Yah!

Another great day on the island! (It's hard to have a bad one!)