Happy Anniversary, Keith

It was fifteen years ago today. I remember taking that walk with you that morning in Mother and Daddy's neighborhood just like it was yesterday. Thank you for everything.

I love you.

6/5/10 - Just realized I have two posts on our anniversary. I was on a plane trying to post and was having a hard time - lucky Keith. He got two anniversary wishes :)

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary, Keith. It's been a wonderful 15 years and I look forward to many, many more.

Another Rite of Passage

We had another Rite of Passage this week. I'm not sure why this is an exciting thing, but I remember looking forward to it intensely.

Any way, James got braces this week. This process has gone very high tech since the late 70s when I was graced with them. There are all these computerized images and analysis not only of your teeth, but also your bite. (Guess they needed to find away to get people to need them even if they have straight teeth.) You also get to pick colored little bands to go on them. Our choice were blue and white ones to match the team kit. Of course.

My babies are growing up.

Already Summer?!

As you can tell, I've been running a bit behind schedule now, well.....for months. I have so many things I could cover and share. Maybe I'll take a few minutes and whip out a few. Or, maybe I won't.

Tonight is a belated Happy Birthday to my Daddy. I uploaded the before version of this picture, but it was entirely too small for you to appreciate the extensive editing I have done to it. Christopher and I have had a good time checking out all kind of details. The airplane in the very far right-hand corner, the ashtray, the nameplate, the dated telephone and, of course, the trophies.

Any way, Happy Birthday, Daddy. I hope it was a good one.

Last Inning

We held them to 1. CBT fielded two for outs at first. Third baseman fielded one and threw it to first for the out.

CBT was up first and he walked. He really is fast - stole 2nd and 3rd. Am sure he gets that from my side of the family. He scores with an awesome slide just under the ball. Whew!!

Just ran out of time. Kind of a bummer since we had no outs. Final 9-3. Next game is Saturday.

After the 3rd

Painful inning. They scored 5. We struggled with hits to the infield. CBT was on deck for the last out. 8-3.

After the 2nd

We held the Yankees to no run. We struck out one, 2nd fielded one and threw the runner out at first (good snag CBT).  Last out CBT fielded a chopper and stumbled to first for an out. Impressive ability to stay on his feet.

And...they held us. 3-0.

Tough Inning

We had quite a few base runners....but just couldn't convert to runs. Christopher had one of hus best hits ever....all the way to the outfield. Unfortunately, the centerfielder caught it.

Playing first tonight

Mouth full of bubble gum and I mean totally full. Could be a long night- did I mention we have a young team?  The guys we're playing are huge.

Christopher just caught a pop-up for our first out of the game. Held them to 3 first inning.

We have good pitching, but our bats come and go. Fielding seems to come and go, too. It's enough to give a mother a heart attack.

Been playing 30 min and we're just starting the bottom of the 9th. While I'm waiting for something exciting, did I mention the only 2 girls in the league are playing against each other tonight?

It's the Tournament

The last game was a total squeaker. Hope ours isn't that close. I don't have the energy.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day. I've been working on a super secret project for my mom. Sort of super secret because she had to bring me the old photos, but she had no idea what I was going to be able to do with them. I am taking a Vintage Photo class. (Wow, it just struck me. I am working on "vintage photos" and I am in them!) Any way, we're learning on to color correct, fix dust spots and get rid of tears and folds. Well....tada!

Here is the original. I am guessing somewhere around 1972. It was our directory picture for First Baptist. Other tidbits about this photo? My mom made both mine and Tammy's dresses. Also, I wore that dress in Little Miss Troy when I won first runner up.

Now, after weeks of work...

I still have one more class. Maybe I'll include a larger one then. (You see, there was this huge piece of the top layer missing from one side of my face. I sure hope we get to advance remediation in that class because the photo look great except for that one spot. I know Photoshop does wonders - we'll see if it can create something from nothing. Figures it's my face.)

Hope you like it, Mother. More coming. I love you.

So awesome. Winner of 10-14.

We have a winner. Thank you Philip and Fletcher for slowing down the pace.

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With 5 laps to go, that Todd James is doing great.

James way off the front. Older teammates blocking for him

Live blogging from Macon

We're setting up with an aerobics class in the background.