Baseball "get-away"

We got to Van Buren around 3pm on Friday afternoon. After we got everything unloaded and into our room I noticed that we managed to leave Gracie's bag with diapers and hair stuff at home. So, she and I went in search of a Wal-Mart. Luckily there is one less than 1 mile from the hotel. I can even look out our window and see it. Gracie was funny, you can tell we spend alot of time in Wal-Mart because she was so excited when we got there! It was a good excuse to get some new hair "prettys" and she even conned me out of a little umbrella. She's been toting that thing around everywhere! After Wal-Mart, we were in desperate need of a Sonic diet coke, so I drove thru town until I found it. Which is also very close to our hotel in the other direction. So, after getting a coke I felt much better!

When we got back from the trip to Wal-Mart, the boys were already in the pool and the coaches had dinner ready, so we ate some hot dogs and chicken sandwiches and then me and Gracie changed into our swimming clothes to join the boys. Braden and Rhett were loving it, of course. They were shooting water guns and having a blast with the other kids. Gracie was a little slow warming up to it, but after I got in with her she did great! She even did a decent job of leaving her ear plugs in her ears.

Today we played our first baseball game at noon. It was super hot and supper sunny. Gracie didn't sleep good last night, so she was pretty cranky, but Braden played very well! The team lost 16-0. We played one of the Washington County teams, who so far we've lost to 3 of them this season. They are really really good. The boys started playing better at the end of the game, but they just seemed so nervous at the beginning and they were making silly mistakes. We play again at 6pm tonight.

Braden caught a fly ball in the outfield and also threw every ball that came to him in to 2nd base very well. He only got one chance to bat, but did hit the ball. They threw him out at 1st base.

Hopefully the boys will do better the next game.

Gracie with her coke icee. You can imagine what her shirt looked like after the game... I had to do a load of laundry between games! Rhett loved his icee too!

Here's Braden when he got his hit in the first game.