Birthday fun...

Woo and Gramp's came the weekend before his birthday and brought over this yummy cookie cake...





On his actual birthday we took the kids and cade's best friend McCallum to Jungle Rapids to play some games.


























After that we took him out to eat for a birthday dinner at TGI Fridays, the waitstaff made him stand up in his chair and they all sang happy birthday to him. He has come a log way from when he used to hide under the table when everyone sang the birthday song to him!

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Cade is double digits!!!!!

That makes you feel old, uh? It has been over a week since his birthday and I am still in denial that my baby is 10! And like dad said, as fast as these first 10 years went, the next 10 years will go even faster :(

It has been an awesome experience watching him learn and grow into such an awesome little boy (soon to be man!). From his obsession with all cars, trucks and trains, balls, then dinosaurs. The "super hero" phase and then Star Wars. Playing with legos for hours and then came the sports. It started out with soccer and then baseball, football and basketball have followed. He is now obsessed with Sports Center and ESPN and watches them whenever he can. He gets the ESPN magazine and reads it cover to cover. He is a tremendous athlete and gives 110% at every sport he plays (one of the several reasons his coaches all LOVE him). He is also a wonderful student, getting awesome grades and is also loved by all his teachers (but whats not to love!).

He is kind, thoughtful, energetic, funny, determined, loving, sensitive, a hard worker, a sweet big brother, a great teacher, and an absolute JOY to be around. I feel honored to be his mother and look forward to watching him continue to become the awesome young man I know he will be!!!

(thank you Kelli for letting me steal these awesome pics!)





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Pitching and the soft toss

Cade has been practicing his pitching. He's getting really fast and accurate. I wouldn't be too surprised if he pitched a little in rec ball this spring.


He loved how I could take the pictures real fast so he could see it all in kind of slow motion

















Soft toss batting practice. The "soft toss", the net they are hitting into, is awesome for the yard, they can practice batting without breaking my windows!




















There is a specific line on his new bat a couple inches long that says if you hit the ball there it will be a "power hit" (or something like that)... He was excited that he just hit one on that line :)


Lyla taking it all in


She loves baseball already....poor thing, she's been going to travel ball tournaments, then football games, then basketball games since she was born, in a few weeks she will be introduced into the wonderful world of rec ball; 4 games a week (between both boys) for 2 months, and on weekends travel tournaments. Good thing she is a good baby!!!


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Happy Valentine's Day!

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Play ball!!!

Let the fun begin! The boys both "try out" for rec ball this weekend, so we have gone to the fields to practice a few times. I'm very excited for the season to start. I think of all the sports they play, baseball is my favorite to watch. They both have such natural ability and it is so fun to watch them learn and grow and get better every season!




















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