Baseball for Beginners?!

Well, we survived Will's baseball tournament with 3 loses! Our team is really a good team but they are young. They still have a lot to learn. Plus, the tournament we played was a travel ball tournament and they play baseball year round. The team we played Friday night was from Tallahassee and they are booked to play baseball up until Christmas. I do love baseball and I love watching my boys play but, not that much. That team was good and we were able to hang with them. I think the score was 12-7. Now to tell you how in to playing ball these people were, we got to the field for our Saturday morning game and the team we played Friday was playing the Alex City team. We were playing the Alex City team next so we took the Tallahassee dugout. Not only did they have tents but they also had an industrial size fan that was plugged into the bathroom by an extension cord. They Alex City team had their "jam box" for music between innings. Tracie Huner and I did bring our tents. But as for s the other stuff, we have a lot to learn!! We of course lost against the Alex City team by the 10 run rule and our 2:00 game was against the one of the Dothan teams which had a girl on their team and she knock a ball all the way to the fence! They beat us my the 10 run rule too!! Needless to say, we have a lot a practicing to do if we play again. On top of loosing our boys had a great time and we did too! Will played 3rd base and made several good plays and some bad ones. This was the first experience he had with the opposing team talking to him while he is playing 3rd. He said he could not concentrate! We will have to work on that! Thanks again to our great coaches, Frank Scarbrough, Jeff Hollis, Wally Lowery,Chris Huner and Steve Barron. They took a lot of time to work with our sons and we really appreciate it! Maybe we will do better next time!!

On our way to Dothan Friday Will was so excited. He finally took a short nap right outside of Ozark!

Will's 2nd time up to bat he struck out. I think I made him nervous standing so close to him with my camera!

Prayer after the game. Thanking God the other team didn't send us to the slaughter house!!
Will playing 3rd base
Ben, Walker and Drew they didn't watch a minute of the game but they had a blast playing!
Kate was a real trooper. I had taken plenty for her to do. We had her excersaucer and a blanket with some toys. She had fun playing but the sweet little baby was hot just like the rest of us!
We spent the night Friday night, she and I slept in the same bed and she woke up twice and ate twice! She never wakes up and eats! Needless to say that made us both very tired. She was finally able to take a nap when we went to eat lunch between our Saturday games.