Easter Blessings!

Such a beautiful Easter day! 

Had a great day eating and visiting with family today, hunting eggs, and playing with Copper (our newest 4-legged family member).  The girls were so beautiful in their Easter dresses, and Daddy sure looked handsome in his new Easter duds.  Grateful for all of our many blessings today!

 Sweet baby girl!  

Always posing!

 My heart. I yub them!

 Not everyone was pumped about the family photo, but we'll take what we can get!

 Two of my favorite girls!  Julianne was totally over the picture taking by this point.

 Claire and Jul decided to hunt for eggs in the dune buggy, no way the big girls could keep up with them!

Someone was so excited about her new bathing suit that she had to wear it all day!

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and were able to celebrate our Risen Savior with family and friends.  We're about to kick back on the deck, light a fire, relax and enjoy this beautiful evening.  

Ballin'

On Thursday, Abigail and the rest of the Oberlin Sweeties played in their very first game of the season!! We are just tickled pink, if you couldn't tell!  They have been practicing so hard and we were all so excited to finally get to play.  Of course, we had to have a tiny photo shoot before the game...you know how those softball Mommas are...:)

 The 2014 Oberlin Sweeties (minus a few latecomers)

 So proud of our #7!  

Action shot--baby girl was hustlin'!

 Lemme tell ya, folks, t-ball ain't what it used to be.  Like there's a whole lot less "t".  This year, the Dixie Youth rules have changed so that 4/5/6 year olds are now doing primarily coach pitch ball instead of hitting off of the tee.  Very hard for some of these babies to be able to do that, but I suppose it's preparing them for later on.  In the game Thursday night, Ab hit a hard grounder almost to the third baseman...and promptly hauled her sweet patootie to 3rd base!!  She hit it so hard that she got turned around and just took off in the direction she was facing!  It was hilarious, as you can imagine.  No, I didn't get a picture or video because I was so busy jumping up and down cheering.  It was an AWESOME hit, just sayin'.  We played Elizabeth, which was basically like playing college girls.  There's no 10-run rule, so the score was much higher...

The game this morning against Fairview was much more evenly matched.  (At least the Fairview girls didn't look like Amazons out on the field.)  We didn't win this one either, but #7 got another good hit and a RBI!  We are so proud of her!!  She is learning and improving every day and really seems to enjoy playing.  

We are looking forward to another game on Monday against Fairview. 

You know what they say, the 3rd time's a charm!!  

It's Been Awhile...

I didn't realize until just now that it's been almost a year since my last post.  We're still alive, in case you were wondering.  Just wanted to clear that up.  Due to ...things... I've decided to pick back up with the blogging rather than posting pics on Facebook or Instagram (some pictures just need a story, you know.  And sometimes I may want to say more than the X number of characters allowed.).  So here we go on this little adventure again!  My plan is to try and post at least weekly.  We'll see how that goes.  Baby steps, you know.  Since this is the first afternoon of Easter break, I'm hopping off now to enjoy the beautiful afternoon with my girlies!  Lots of fun things planned for the next few days, especially Ab's first t-ball game tomorrow night!  Check back soon for pics and a recap of what's sure to be an eventful game! ;)