Softball Tourny in Rigby

Savannah has had a good summer playing softball. She has made a lot of progress in her game. Yesterday, Savannah had 4 games, beginning a 9:45am and their last one at 6:30pm. They won 2 out of 5 games. Savannah had a good day playing in her games. She hit the ball well and fielded very well, playing 2nd base. In one of her games she made a double play, fielding a grounder and tagging the runner from 1st base and throwing the hitter out at 1st base, it was very exciting. She also made some really good catches and had some good throws. It's fun and exciting watching her play. It's nice to have some one to play catch with, both Savannah and Olivia are fun to play catch with.

A Family Tradition

Our favorite family tradition is having Shauna or the girls making no-bake cookies on Sunday evening. I don't know how it started, because we all hate chocolate so much, NOT!!!

Girls fastpitch softball

Here is a finished look at the bathroom, a large thanks goes out to my dad, Gary, and Greg for their help, it was very much appreciated. We still are going to paint the walls on Monday.

Here are some photos of me tearing the master bathroom apart, so we could tile the floor and put in a new shower stall. It was a real pain!!

Well, Savannah and Olivia made it through their first year of fastpitch softball. They had a good year and made some new friends, I also saw a lot of improvement in their play through the year. They lost their first two games of their league tournament. Their first game they only had 7 girls show up to play, they lost 15-7. Their next game, they lost 11-10, with the based loaded and two outs, our batter grounded out. They really battled back in the last inning, I was very proud of them. I think that Savannah is going to play in a tournament in Rigby, with a team from Rexburg, on July 11th and 12th.

I have sacrificed ball experiences these last few weeks, so I could be with the girls, I'm planning to rejoin the team and see what a can do. I hope that I can perform up to the standards of my first week with the team. I'm excited to play some ball again!!

Our trip to Washington

Well, we had great trip to the Tacoma, Wa. area last week. We went over for a the wedding of Shauna's nephew,(Justin Schliep). They were married in a beautiful mansion, constructed in the early 1900's. It's called the Thornwood Castle. It was the setting of a movie by Stephen King, called The Red Rose. I guess it's a suspense, thriller. Go figure, Stephen King, who would have guessed!! The place had a huge sunken garden, which the site of the wedding. Abby was one of the flower girls, she loved the attention, she really loved the beautiful dress that they made for her, this was worth the trip itself. We were there just three days and then drove back on sunday. We spent a lot of the time playing Wii sports, and enjoying some days of just hanging out. The weather was very nice, middle 70's. It was a lot of fun!!

Springville Fastpitch Tourny

Well, Savannah had her first softball tournament, and it was in Springville, Ut. Candace and Beau were both gone, but they allowed us to stay at there place. It sure saved us a lot of money, also the girls loved playing their WII, and so did I. Savannah had two games on friday evening, and then two more games saturday morning. They went 0-4, they had struggled against the Utah teams that have played together for years. This was the first time for Savannah playing with these girls. She also seemed very intimidated, she'd not seen girls pitch like this before, they were very good. There first game was against Emily Jonsen's team, she is married to Tod Jonsen from my mission. Their oldest daughter has been playing for years, she pitched, and did a very good job. It was fun to see them, and a pleasant surprise. We have a lot to work on with Savannah. She's still trying to learn the game and the mechanics of the game. I'm hoping that they'll come with the more game experience she sees. She played 2nd base and some right field.
She really struggled with her hitting, she walked a couple of times and then struck out the rest, she never made any contact with the ball.
Her team is going down to Murray, Ut. for a tournament this friday and saturday. I'm not sure that i'll make it down for this one or not, I'm not sure my nerves can take it, I guess that I've got a lot to work on myself.

THANKS BEAU AND CANDACE FOR LETTING US USE YOUR PLACE!!!!!

Golfing in the Rain

Shauna and I went golfing this morning with her brother Gary and his wife Jenn. We went to Cedar Park which is a par 3 golf course, it's located east of Rigby about 4 miles. It is a really fun little course. We did get a little wet, but the rain only lasted for about 15-20 minutes.
I almost made Shauna pee her pants. We were on the 6th hole and I was up to tee off. I hit the ball directly into a sprinkler pipe which kicked the ball right back at me. So I grab my ball and tee off again and smack a tree in front of me and to the right a little, it kicks my ball back at me, just missing my knee, they were all laughing at me so hard, that Shauna almost had an accident in her pants.
We did have a really good time, Shauna said that she would like to go again, that was music to my ears.

Unhappy faces!

Thursday night was sure a sad night. Everything was going great, the girls had just performed magnificently, at their Company B concert. I was very impressed how well all the girls performed. Shauna and Darby sure have done a great job to get all those girls to come out and perform. They also have a little group of boys (7 boys) that did a really good job, they are very busy. Everything was great until we got home and had a message on the phone that the softball tourny in Springville, ut. was cancelled due to weather. That's when the flood of tears commenced. Charly and Olivia were so upset, suggesting that we still go down, but, with gas prices, it was not going to happen. Yesterday, we found out that they have rescheduled that same tourny for this coming friday and saturday.

These are the girls uniforms, or as Savannah said(costumes), I had to correct her, and make sure she understood that they are uniforms not costumes.