Today was another busy but fun Saturday. The kids went to bed between 10:30-11pm last night and were both up by 7am. How's that for their chance to sleep in? This morning the 3 of us helped "staff" the garage sale. Katie and Madison sold drinks. Quinn and Nathan made sure that the bikes and ride on toys that were for sale continued to function properly throughout the morning by riding them in circles around the driveway. The garage sales always draw a variety of people... a lot of Hispanics and some Amish too. The most interesting garage sale person was the man who walked around with a rat perched on his shoulder... with the tail draping down the front of his shirt. ...In case you are wondering, my grand total was around $52 which actually wasn't that bad because I really didn't take over much stuff. yeah!
Quinn had a baseball game at 11:30-1:20... it was a boiler!...sooo hot!! Beppe and I are already dreaming about Fall! Quinn got a batting helmet from Grandma & Grandpa and this past week was the first he got to use it. He was the first up to bat and he hit a home run! Soooo, from then on out, it was ..."this helmet is my life!"... "Don't let one speck of dust get on it!"... he was just IN LOVE with the thing! He went on to hit a double and two singles. Wow!.. What amazing powers were contained in that helmet.... that came to a screeching halt today while striking out 3 times!!! Some days you've got it... some days you don't! Oh well. I think his team won... I was in the process of a heat stroke, so who knows.
Quinn...with his "lucky" new helmet on. Taken just moment before he hit a homerun earlier in the week. A line-drive down the right base line.
Madison's second game of the tournament was today. Tony and she got to the field in Goshen at 11:15 or so for a noon start. Well, the game before them ran late... they didn't get started until 1:20! ...so 2 hours later, hanging out in the heat... they finally started play. And 2 1/2 hours later they were finally winding things up with a 35-6 win or something. The ump told Tony that that team had been undefeated before... in their Goshen league. We can't quite understand that. So they go on to play tourney game #3 tomorrow at 4pm in Elkhart against an Edwardsburg, MI team. Madison usually plays 1st base and does a really good job. The timing will be tricky with a Flames game at 3pm...hmmm.
One of the softball girls invited all of the team over to her house to swim after the game... a very much needed cooling down break. Madison got to swim about an hour and a half and then we picked her up and headed to Wakarusa to Abby's graduation party. She graduated from Northwood High School. Congratulations Abby!! Abby is our childcare provider for the summers. This summer will be her 3rd summer. The kids enjoyed seeing their pictures up with her picture collage displays at the party. The kids love her and so do we! She plans to go to Bethel College this Fall. She had a really nice party and I must say that they have the nicest garage I've EVER been in! Ask me about it sometime.
You know, we stay awfully busy, but each activity is a lot of fun. The kids enjoy it. Madison, especially, never wants to stop going, and going and going. I would enjoy it more if it wasn't so blazing hot... I mean I'm talking near 90 degrees Amanda!!..Do you feel our Midwestern pain? OK, probably not.
I'll try to post after the softball and soccer game tomorrow night!
Love to all, Leah
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