Last Tournaments, Danny's Birthday & The Haunted Barn! Oh my!

The boys finished their last fall baseball tournaments last night. Mason's team ended up 2nd in the tournament and also 2nd in the fall ball league. He did such a good job this season. Matthew's team ended up 3rd in the tournament and also 3rd in the league. Matthew also did a good job and we keep reminding him when he gets down about the 3rd place finishes that his team is the youngest with all of the boys being 10 or 11 and the other 2 teams consisting of mostly 12 year old's who are getting ready to turn 13!

Danny turned the big 31 yesterday! The boys picked out a cake for him at United (notice the fall theme) and then I let Mason decorate it however he wanted (while Danny and Matthew played some catch ALONE) so of course Mason went all out with the oreo's being added.

Saturday night we took the boys to Tonkawa to The Haunted Barn that they have each year. Mason loved it and didn't get scared at all. He did however let Danny hold him the entire time except for when you have to crawl through this tunnel and you have to do it yourself. Matthew on the other hand held onto my hand with a death grip and of course later said it didn't scare him at all. Yeah right! We had a really good time. Mason crashed on the way home from all of the excitement and Matthew obviously was allergic to something in the barn (probably the hay) and had to have benadryl on the way home. He wasn't crying I promise.

Fall State Tournament and The Pumpkin Patch

Matthew played in the Fall State Tournament 2 weekends ago in Edmond and the boys won the championship! It was great to see the boys play so well and they deserved their 1st place win. Matthew pitched quite a bit that weekend and did a great job.

I took off 2 Friday's ago and went with Mason's class to the pumpkin patch which is located just south of Winfield. The kids ate lunch at the park and then were able to pick out a pumpkin to take home. I went to this same place with Matthew when he was in Kindergarten. Mason and I had a good time.

One Crazy Weekend!

Let me first say...can you believe it! I have new pictures up! I almost can't believe it myself.

This weekend has been crazy! Both of the boys played in a mid-season tournament for their baseball teams. Christy, Ian, Lia, Mom and Dad came to visit and we attended a parade downtown and also Oktoberfest which is held every year here in Ponca City.

We started Friday evening off with both of the boys having games (at the same time of course) so we went back and forth between them. Saturday Danny had to work and the boys also played at the same time with Mason playing 2 games on Saturday and Matthew playing 3. Saturday morning before baseball Christy and I took the kids downtown to see the Centennial Parade which was really good but very long! The kids had a good time. Mason finished up his games Saturday night with a 1st place win and an awesome (his words) blue trophy! He was so tired because we didn't finish until after 8 but he was so proud. Matthew played in the championship game today but unfortunately lost to the other team so his team took 2nd. Matthew pitched and did excellent we just couldn't get the bats going and the fielding to gel together. The boys had a great weekend of ball. We are on to Edmond next weekend for a State Tournament with his traveling team. Wish us luck!

I just wanted to let my sister know that I appreciate her driving all the way here to see us and I had fun hanging out with her even though it was for a very short time. Next time we will have to make sure nothing is going on so we can visit a little more. I love you!

Well...I just want to say hello to everyone and hope everyone is doing well.