Baseball, Bugz, & Bassoon!

Here are a bunch of pictures that pretty much sums up what we've been up to this Spring...

Baseball, of course: Games have been too few this year courtesy of all the rain and concert conflicts, but Alex is having a great season overall. (With the exception of falling for some strategic trickery last night, resulting in a tag out at 2nd to end a bases-loaded inning...bummer.) Please notice that these boys are playing in WHITE baseball pants!! The moms in the stands have shared many stain removal tips over the last 3 years. My favorite? Shout Advanced Ultra Concentrated Gel. It has a plastic scrubber brush attached that the gel squirts out of, so you can aggressively rub the gel into the 100% polyester (or whatever), and you can apply it right away and then launder it up to a week later. I swear these boys revel in the glory of getting their pants as dirty as possible. And I swear the moms revel in the glory of bringing those boys to the next game with bright white pants! I should have kept count of the number of bottles of Shout I go through in a season...

And, while Alex plays baseball, the girls just play...finding lots of ways to pass an evening in a park...

And occasionally daddy gets in on the playtime...

And here is Beth at her 2nd grade program, a musical play called "Bugz", with her very favorite friend, Natalie. (Yep, they are the same age...quite a pair, huh?!)

And lots of music...here is Alex playing his bassoon in an ensemble. We are now in the market to purchase him his own bassoon...cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching!

And here is the music teacher extraordinaire, Mr. Allison...this is Alex's last year with him, and Brenna's first. He is one of those teachers that invests so much into his students, we are so thankful for him!

These happy smiles are because Sunday was the last SOGO concert of the year! Great year, but great to have our Sunday afternoons back!

And this is just a sweet picture...of three of my very favorite people...