carrots and 7 years

If you don't have a facebook, you havent seen my carrots! So far, carrots are the most exciteing thing we've harvested in the garden. You really don't know if you actually going to get a carrot until you pull it up. I've never before eaten a carrot the day it was picked and I have to say it is almost as if I'd never eaten a carrot. They are so sweet and crunchy and flavorful. Why didn't we do this sooner?

I other exciting news, Heath and I have been married for 7 years! We celebrated a few weeks ago by going out for breakfast when we were in Texarkana because we thought we wouldn't be able to get (or pay for) a baby sitter on the actual day. On Friday, the day before the anniversary, we went to our favorite park in Rockwall to play with our awesome new Frisbee and for the girls to play on the playground. Then we had a delicious meal of chick-fil-la sandwiches that were extra good because they were free (we got some free coupons in the mail a few weeks ago). THEN, yesterday, about 3 o'clock a girl in our church called to see if we needed a babysitter. How could we say no? So we went to Red Lobster and walmart and our baby sitter wouldn't take the money we tried to give her. It was a great anniversary. Oh, also we played tether ball at the local playground yesterday morning and after 6 games (each of us winning 3) we decided to stop in an effort to preserve our marriage for another 7 years.

Anniversary Frisbee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrea got me the great frisbee for our 7th anniverary. It is great. Perfect size, perfect weight, perfect flight patterns. It is sure to be a source of great times to come!

taking one for the team

Well, our church softball season is now over. Once again, we were the runner-ups.

I haven't given as many updates this year. I did hit alot less homers this year (2), but I had a batting average of about .800. Also, I made an unassisted double play from centerfield. Ok since you want to know, there was a runner on first and the ball was a looper in shallow center. The girl on first did not think i would catch it (she obviously hadn't seen me in action), but i did. She was already about 3/4 of the way to second base when I caught it about 30 feet behind second base. I could have just thrown it to first to double her up, but chasing her down gave me the thrill of knowing that on my blog i could tell the world that i made an unassisted DP.

We won the semi-final game yesterday. I was proud of us. The team we played beat us earlier in the season 22-4. We came back in the bottom of the 7th (the last inning) to win 12-11.

We lost the championship game because we made too many errors, and the team we played was really, really good. I knew going into this game that for us to win we would have to take advantage of every little opportunity we had. At the beginning of the game I led off with a double and the girl after me hit a grounder to the shortstop-- I knew that I needed to get to third so that if the next player hit a fly ball in the outfield I could tag and score. The shortstop looked me back to second and then fired to first. When the ball left his hand I took off for third. The first baseman made a great throw to third, but I did a nifty slide, eluding the tag. By the way, I slid on hard dirt at a full sprint wearing mesh shorts. Hence, the pic above of my battle wound. I wore it proud throughout the rest of the game. The ladies on the team were calling for a first aid kit and wanted me to bandage it. I didn't even wipe the dirt. For the rest of the game I played with a dirty and bloody right leg. It made me look pretty intimidating, I think.