Softball Game

Last name was supposedly be out last softball game of the season -but we do have another one rescheduled for this Friday night. Here are some pics I took of the girls playing last night's game.

WE did not win, but the other team which is the hometown I live in -Hellam - was the undefeated champs in our division 14-0. I'm glad to see they did it. Even though we did lose.

Some action pics above of the girls on 1st base.

I think the above picture is so neat how it caught Taylor (our pitcher) in mid-action.

The only picture above I got of my Taylor in the outfield.
I hope to get more photos on Friday night to finish our year out.

Camping trip 08

Ok, I don't think I ever shared our camping trip pictures with you all. We went camping in April upstate in PA for trout opening weekend. The guys wanted to try this adventure out as we packed and headed to Raystown Lake camping/fishing for a cold bitter windy weekend in April (which I will never ever do again). It rained, and rained -and was windy and more windy -we lost 1 tent, a few canopies and it was just plain down muddy muddy.

The only good thing was the food...........here are some pictures to share.
We plan to go camping with this group again in August -but trust me, it won't be cold and rainy this time.

The famous tri-pod cooker above that is so ever popular when we go camping. I belive there is chicken on the grill this time.

Yes, there is chicken this time, it was so good.

A Lost canopy above that Rick and Toby are trying to fix or just save and take down.

A view of the tent site before the storm and before the mud!
We will have better luck in a few weeks going camping, fingers crossed XXX.

Birthday Surprise

A birthday surprise showed up in the mail today for Steve -his birthday is August 2nd, a little early birthday gift with a big smile. And of course its a REDSKINS handmade quilt from his mom in Virginia -- it is very nice, the detail on the quilt is amazing -- it has football embroirdered images on the background and even a football in the corner which is personalized from his mom. She's a great person and she said it took her about 2 months to get this quilt already to go.

Steve above is opening the box with a big smile.

Yes, its a Redskins quilt!

And the final photo of this great quilt, it really is a nice quilt! Redskins and all.

Jeremy & Melissa

Friends of ours got married in June -- I haven't had a chance to post their wedding photo yet, so here it is.....they are such a cute couple. Jeremy & Melissa Markley -congrats!

the new JONQ

OK, who is JonQ?

Well, its the old FDP band we love to go watch on weekends. They played at BALLOONFEST this past June '08. I'm a little far behind downloading photos to my blog. Here are some photos I took while watching them play at Balloonfest, needless to say it was a VERY HOT HOT NIGHT when we went here! But it cooled off once the sun went down, no balloons launched this night due to it being a little windy --but at least we got to see the boys!

the new JonQ band from York above.

Taylor hanging with a friend from school.

Scott and the newest member Brian. We miss you guys!

Softball Season 2008

Well, we believe softball season for spring/summer is over, our last 3 games of the season were forfeited this week due to lack of players. I guess vacations and camps took over this week and our season went too long. Its a shame you pay 75.00 for your girls to play and they end up forfeiting almost 4-5 games this season due to lack of players.

I thought this picture below was a neat picture as it was taken at the tournament they played in this past weekend, nothing like an action shot!

We ended this year with many losses, but better luck next year PINK PANTHERS!

Taylor playing shortstop and heading for the 2nd base to make a play!

Summer

Well, the summer is going good. Its been HOT here in the northeast the past 3-4 days, very humid and in the 90's......hoping today for that too end. The swimming pool is just simply PEE WARM, I think my mom said that yesterday although she'll deny it. But it was so true. It wasn't quite that warm, but very warm --- I think pool water temp is like 88 degrees.

We have our last 3 softball games this week and than on to fall softball season for Taylor. You no sooner finish one season and start into the next.

I cannot believe July is almost over and into August -next summer will be over. :-(

Hope your weekend was fun. We finished out a tournament on Saturday -we loss but maybe was a good thing cause it was so stinkin HOT --but I really wanted to see the girls go a little further than they did.
Yesterday we hung in the pool most the afternoon and finished with ordering pizza last night. Taylor is at a friend's house doing a sleepover and should be home this morning.
That recaps our weekend. Hope yours was great!!!

13 days

Its been 13 days since I blogged last, is that an unlucky # maybe? I hope not.

So much going on.......summer is definitely here, and its hot again --- trying to use the swimming pool as much as possible plus finish up our softball season for Taylor's games.

Alot has changed in our household and things I'm hoping look good in our future. Its alot to mention but just put it this way -- its a good thing! And only time will tell as each day goes by and I'm taking it 1 day at a time.

I just picked up 3 more routes for the paper delivery, come July 27th we will no longer deliver on weekends, yippee! skippy --so looking forward to that. But also means a cut in our profit checks each month so I need to do something to make up for that, so I took over our old routes we gave up back in April. Its only 50 more papers and alot of foot work instead of car routes, but the exercise will be good. I'm just now getting back in the swing of delivering those old routes. On hot days it really stinks.

I'm working busily with ebay stuff right now and keeping busy on that end of business. Paying bills and now caught up -feels great!!!!!

Well, hopefully I can blog a little more each day and get some photos added and get back on track for end of July, have a great summer!

Hanging by the PooL

Last night we hung by the pool and chatted about the girl scout troop's camping trip this end of July --the girls took forever to plan the weekend and decided to finally get in the pool about 8:00 or after. It was fun to hang out by someone else's pool for a change and just chat with the girls.