SWAT Baseball Wins!

Rhett's team pulled out the Gold Minor Championship this weekend in Murfreesboro. I was so proud of Rhett because he had to pitch in both the semi-final and final games. Rhett has shown a level head under pressure this season and it seems that if there are zero outs, bases loaded, and the game it tied he's the "go to" man. 

I captured these pics from the semi-final game and I was SO happy I did. Rhett struck the last batter out on a change up to end the game and he and his catcher were beside themselves. It was the cutest thing EVER. 

Rhett came in and closed the championship game as well. I said he was pretty much like Craig Kimbrel with pretty much none of the velocity (or the fat payday:) ) 

It was a super exciting game for the SWAT and I was so proud of how they played. Not to mention that it was absolutely freeeeeezing the whole tournament. I've gotten myself a Little Buddy heater and he is my best little friend! Way to go Rhett and SWAT! 

This Happened.

I couldn't find Rhett. Yelled for him. Looked for him. Where did I finally find him? 

Asleep in Annie's dog bed. And Annie asleep in the floor. So funny:)

Another Day of Making Memories!

It was Rhett's turn to have his buds over for the day. He was gracious and let Grant hang with his buds. It was another super fun day of swimming and backyard football/soccer. 

 I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day! 

 Good times, great kids. Perfect summer day. 

God is GOOD!

SWAT Baseball

Rhett played another year of All-Stars on SWAT. This year our team was a pretty solid little group. We got several tournament wins under our belt including winning the district title. We made it to the final game of the State tournament and ended up losing to Lawrenceburg in a game we should've totally won:( It was a great season though! 

I love watching Rhett play baseball. He is in it to win it every game. He has a drive and a passion that is unmatched. (He probably gets it from Bobby:) ). 

As always, faithful fan and grandpa was there for nearly every game...only missing because he was at one of the other boys' games. This picture was on father's day and where else would we be?? Good times! 

MIsmatched

Rhett came home from school today and I could only see one of his socks. There have been many a day that I look down only to see that he has not worn ANY socks so naturally I figured he just put one on and ran out the door. Nope. Turns out he did, indeed, wear two socks.....One from a pack of socks we bought at Costco accidentally that were meant for someone with really, really huge feet and the other? An infant sock that never made it to the Goodwill. An infant sock. It literally covered his toes and a small portion of the ball of his foot. I just had to document the size difference because it cracked us up. Rhett.....he always makes my life funnier:)

Eight Years on Halloween!!

This year a round of bad, stormy, tornadoish weather caused trick-or-treating to be postponed a day, which in turn meant that running through the neighborhood collecting candy was the main event at Rhett's sleepover birthday party! Everyone actually thought it was pretty awesome!

Elaina, after an entire year of saying she was going to be a skeleton, pulled a switch on me and about two weeks before Halloween insisted that she was going to be Sophia the First. So, Sophia it was!

Rhett was a boxer.....

along with his bud Silas. 

Sophia was so cute that I had to put another picture of her here:)

And, even though this picture doesn't do it justice (it just looks like a bunch of dandruff) her bun was drenched in sparkle spray. She LOVED it (and has asked to have sparkle hair at least 10 times since then!)

Cade and his friends decided to be Presidents. Cade chose Ronald Reagan. 

He had one line, "Mr. Gorbechev, Mr. Gorbechev, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!". He spoke it well. And his mask creeped me out...big time. In fact, Bobby stood on the stairs in the house with the dumb thing on and waited for me in the dark. I collapsed into a heap a few stairs down and nearly wet myself. Ronald Reagan face in the dark when you're not expecting it is no bueno. 

Here's the rest of his crew: Abe Lincoln and Richard "I'm not a crook" Nixon. 

Grant went as this blue man. What is this costume you say? To which I'd answer two things: Strange and I don't know. 

Callan was his purple cohort and the colors complimented our neighborhood friend quite well! 

 This is where Halloween gets all precious. I love cute little costumes on cute little kids. These three fit the bill. 

 Elaina turned in earlier than everyone else. Her little princess feet just couldn't take running to another house. And they were probably like little ice cubes since she insisted wearing sandals even though it was quite chilly. She got a huge (to her) bag of loot! 

Once the treating was over it was time to head in for Rhett's birthday fun. I put a "no candy tonight" rule on (I know....I know...It's Halloween! But I didn't want folks getting bellyaches over too much junk!). 

We did some singing and brought out the requested chocolate cake. 

Candles were lit....

 and blown out. Now, let's just talk about this cake for one second. Rhett had requested my mom's chocolate cake. However, my mom was going out of town and I didn't want to bother her with it. SO, I decided I'd try to make it myself (her's is from scratch you know.) I did pretty good until it came to getting the cakes out of the pan and that's when it all came tumbling down....literally. So, while Rhett's cake may have looked a total disaster (as you can see clearly below) it was actually very tasty! I giggle because Rhett patted me on the back and said, "It's okay Mommy. You did your best." Thanks for the encouragement Little Buddy:) 

I love you Rhettiboo and I'll love you for 8x80 more years to come! 

Quotable Quotes

Ahh....Rhett. He STILL makes me laugh nearly every.single.day. He's full of confidence and full of himself! I told him last night that I was laying a nice shirt out for school the next day. He sighed and groaned and said, "Why???" and I replied, "Because it's school picture day and I want you to look decent." To which HE replied, "I don't even get school pictures. I mean, every single parent KNOWS what their kid looks like so why do we need picture day anyway? Picture day is so annoying." His rationale made me giggle:) With the way my memory is working, and with my brain being full to capacity with "to do" stuff I probably WILL need pictures to identify which kid is whom soon! 

Releasing Some Butterflies!

Every second grade year the kiddos get to "grow" their own butterflies and then we as parents are lucky enough to get to stand around outside and watch them fly out of their classroom cages. It's.....interesting. This year the second grade all made up songs to sing about butterflies. I videoed Rhett singing. Well, I tried. He got video-taping-fright and pretty much forgot his words. Next time I'll just be there in person and record it in my little memory bank. He looked cute in his homemade butterfly t-shirt though! 

Once we got outside and he got his butterfly trap (a tasty orange slice) and about 3.4 minutes went by with no luck, he was over it. He dropped his slice, ran around until he found a bud and then I was as good as chopped liver. I slowed him down for one second to break school rules to snap a picture (I'm such a rebel!) and then texted it to his bud's mom who had to work that day. 

Butterfly release parties are so much more fun when you have a great bud to share it with! 

S.W.A.T

 Rhett made the All-Star team for the second year in a row this year. He was the leadoff or second hole hitter, and the second baseman for South Williamson S.W.A.T. Isn't he tough looking? :)

Bobby was the assistant coach again this year and much to his surprise, the S.W.A.T really took off and had a great season! 

There's one word for Bobby's coaching style: intense. But the kids loooooove Coach Bobby! 

 Rhett was sitting the bench during a blow out game and since he doesn't "sit" well he was swinging the bat behind the dugout. I think he's cute:)

 Garrett is one of his team buddies. These two are way too much alike and most of the time they end up in a pretzel wrestling on the ground. It's always full tilt with both of them! 

Rhett was a very consistent hitter for his team this year. If my memory serves me correctly, at the last game, Coach Shannon bragged on Rhett for not having any strike outs in the All-Star season. Pretty impressive for a skinny little kid! 

 Faithful Fan Award goes to Elaina since she attended who knows how many games this year and never complained. In fact, every time her eyes opened from a nap or nighttime she'd say, "Whose game we goin' to?" :) Bless it.

S.W.A.T fought it out for a great season coming in second in the State Tournament. We got beat by Lawrenceburg in our third game of the day. It's hard to ask a bunch of little kids to play that many games in a day in the heat! 

We got a sorry little plaque for all our efforts. ( I mean, really, what kid wants a plaque? This was the STATE tournament! You should get a trophy the size of your body for winning first and one at least up to your knee for second place! Come on. A plaque?? gah.) 

We finished off a great season and we had so much fun with our team. Out of all my kids Rhett gets the award for competitiveness, will to win, drive, and hustle. Let's apply those and get some money for college, kid!