The best birthday gift!

Silas is my shy, quite, hide in plain sight kind of child. He loves action and activity, but he likes not to stand out. Silas had asked Jesus into his heart a while back but decided during VBS that he wanted to be baptized at VBS family night. That is SO not like Silas. Family night is CRAZY! When he made this request, we knew it was going to be a part of his story and we had to make it happen. Silas was also in the middle of heavy ball practice for All Star season. He missed practice to be at Family night. We told his coach, and of course he made sure the team knew and was invited to play a big part!

What I love about 8 year olds… they are not ashamed! They dive right in, they take part. They stand so close that they can feel the water. They bless my socks of and bring me to tears.

Amen and AMEN~!!!

Brotherly Love!

again… on the road for baseball wears the boys OUT!

VBS

I cannot believe this was the only picture I got. I am going to owe everyone an apology some day for my lax in photo taking!

State All Star Tourney

I don’t remember a lot of details of the many baseball tourneys we played in this summer. I believe we came in 2nd for the State Tourney (it may have been 3rd). Either way, they got an invite to regionals in Virginia.

Summer can wear a boy out!

This photo was in a hotel away playing baseball for the weekend. This one is just crashed at home… in sister’s room. I love that the monkey’s are always there!

State Championship- Manchester, TN

Sadly, it is a year later that I am finally sitting down to blog about this, so I don’t remember much about this exciting weekend. What I do remember is that it rained A LOT! We got to spend a lot of time with our baseball family, and we played some “all in” baseball. The boys ended up defeating a nemesis (Lawrenceburg) to play Giles Co. in the finals and put on a good show.

 

Silas marked his place as the kid who could lay the bunt down when needed (almost every single at bat)

I could not be prouder of my son and this team.

4th of July

I am sure I will come back and tag some pictures from Sonja’s house. But for now, this is all I have. Token photos of my beautiful girl in her new dress Gran gets her every year.