Mason is finally 6!

Mason could not wait for his birthday to get here. Everyday he would mark off the day on his calendar and then add up the days until he turned 6. He said it took forever to finally get here. We had a great time and had most of our families here to celebrate with us. We appreciate everyone coming and I know Mason had a great day!

4th of July

We traveled to Sulphur, OK this weekend to spend 4th of July with the Williams family. Danny's sister Julie and her family have us each year for the 4th and the kids have the best time. They live out in the country and have a pool, 4-wheelers, a trampoline and everything else you can have in the country. I didn't see Mason much at all this weekend he was so busy playing and having fun. We were glad to see Danny's parents and his sister Megan who is on summer vacation from West Point. We all love the 4th of July.

Ponca City Bombers - 2008 11 AA State Champions!!

Matthew's traveling baseball team The Bombers won the 11 AA State Championship last weekend in Edmond. We were supposed to start the tournament Friday night and run through Sat. and Sun. but Edmond received a big amount of rain so we did not start the tournament until 1pm on Sunday. We had to play 4 games on Sunday and with the rain delays we ended up finishing our 4th game at 2:09 a.m.! I think we got to bed that morning somewhere around 4 a.m. The next day on Monday the boys had to win all three of their games and that included beating the Edmond Cubs twice since they were unbeaten. Our boys did awesome and won the championship! What a great way to end our season! Mason didn't make it through the last game of the day as you can see.

Lake Monsters Baseball

Mason's 6U league baseball team the Lake Monsters won the championship of the Post Season Tournament on Sunday. Their team was undefeated for the season and the tournament. Mason was super excited about the 2 trophies that he received for the season and the tournament. Matthew's league team didn't fare as well this weekend. They lost their first two games which put them out of the tournament. League baseball is now over so we are concentrating on Bomber's baseball and look forward to the 2 state tournaments the last two weekends of June.

Just an update

It's been awhile since I posted anything new and hope everyone enjoys what I have posted today. Just wanted to update everyone on what is going on in the Williams family. School was out for the boys a couple of weeks ago and as of now I have a 6th grader and a 1st grader!! Can that really be true? My oldest child is in middle school and my youngest is already done with Kindergarten?! Wow!!! Mason had his Kindergarten "graduation" on the last day of school and he was a little bit sad since he will not be returning to St. Marys next year for 1st grade. He is going to go to First Lutheran with his brother and he is already excited about that. He knows a couple of the kids that will be in his class from baseball and other things. As I said Matthew will be in the 6th grade and as you can tell from the pictures he is growing up so fast! He is looking forward to changing classes in the middle school and getting to go to the girl/boy dances. :)

We are still playing baseball - what a shocker! :) Matthew played his last league game last night and Mason played his tonight. Both of the boys will play in the end of season tournament this weekend here in Ponca City. Next weekend we get a break from traveling and baseball (as of right now) and then the last 2 weekends in June are State tournaments with one being in Edmond and the other being in Claremore. I wish everyone could have seen Matthew pitch last night - it was overwhelming how good he did and I was so proud of him! He pitched a full 6 innings which is a lot for an 11 year old but he fought through it and did an awesome job! We ended up going into extra innings with the Fairfax team and beat them 8-6. Matthew is still on cloud nine today after that game last night.

As some of you know I resigned from my job at the college but am still working there part-time to help with a couple of projects and to train the person who takes my position. We have struggled all year with me working full-time (more than full-time with the driving to Tonkawa) and have decided that it is much better for everyone if I am home part of the time with and for the boys. I look forward to "getting to know" them again this summer. Although I saw them everyday and took care of them it almost felt like I didn't know them sometimes this past year and am so lucky that I get to stay home with them again part-time and just hang out with them.

Anyway, I know I am babbling and going on and on. Hope everyone is doing great and look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Jennifer

Dodgers Tournament - Glenpool, OK

Last weekend Matthew's league baseball team the Dodgers were to play in a tournament in Glenpool, OK. Saturday we had rain in Glenpool and ended up only playing 1 game that day. We won 19-1 which put us at the number 2 seed and then on Sunday we had more rain so the tournament was rained out. We were a little disappointed that we did not get to finish the tournament and were hoping to finish very well. On Saturday, Mimi and Papa came over to watch the games but with the games being pushed back we had some time to kill. Mimi and Papa took us to the Jenks Aquarium and the boys had a great time. Mason was very excited about seeing the tiger sharks and the other things at the aquarium.

Just some pictures

Just a few pictures of the boys and Danny. We have been playing non-stop baseball since February and we have about another month to a month and a half to go. We truly enjoy going to all the tournaments and games and look forward to each Spring when baseball starts up again.