Baseball and Softball Season in Full Swing

     Well baseball season has been on for a few weeks now and the boys are doing good. It sure is a busy week for us when I am coaching Brody on Monday and Wednesdays and coaching Haydn on Tuesdays and Thursdays and then playing softball on Fridays with Kristi. All this plus trying to get in practices for Haydn's baseball team and Kristi trying to work a few nights a week. So we will be really busy traveling here and there until the end of June when baseball ends.

     Brody is playing well and learning the game quickly. It is good to see him get better at catching and hitting each year. Haydn is in Minors and the team has played really good for the first 4 games. We have won 3 games and tied 1. Haydn has really improved this year from last season. He hits the ball well and he is throwing the ball way better when he pitches. He pitched in our game last night and he struck out 3 batters to end the game. He was so proud of himself for getting the outs. I love to see the boys start to really understand the game and get better each year.

 

















    Our softball team has gotten off to a good start. We have won our first 4 games of the season and have out-scored the other teams 82-17. We are the team to beat in our Lethbridge league because we have won the "B" division the last 3 years. I love to play on this team because me and Kristi get to play together and it is something that we both love to do.

     Our nights of softball in Lethbridge always end with a traditional trip to Wendy's. This is where some of the funniest parts of the night come about. We always sit at the round table and BS about the games that night.







Basketball Tourney 

     Haydn played in his first ever basketball tourney last weekend. He was so nervous because he had never played in a real game of 5 on 5 basketball. This tourney was a full court and regular size hoops tournament. He played really good and it was good to see him improve each game and understand what he was doing. The boys didn't win a game, but lost a few close ones. The boys did good considering almost all of Haydn's team was kids from grade 4 and they played against teams that consisted of mostly grade 5 kids. Haydn scored a few points in the last game and he was so excited. I was so proud of him when he scored in the game. I really think that if he works in sports he can be a great little athlete.

New Zealand

     There was man from New Zealand in Raymond a few weeks ago. His name is Sid Going and he was one of the best rugby players in New Zealand. Sid played with the famous "All Blacks" rugby team. He served his mission around Raymond and was good friends with Kristi's Grandma Fromm so he came for a visit. We were able to meet him at a family dinner that they put on in Raymond. It was good to hear the "Kiwi" accent again.

   Jeff and Paula Anderson work at the Junior High with me and they have a son (Lincoln) that was waiting for a mission call. He came up to the junior high to get the mail key to check if his call had came in yet. A few minutes later he returned with his call in hand. We were joking around and I was telling him that I hope that he goes to New Zealand. Linc and his family went into a room to open it with each other and a few minutes later returned to the staff room and asked me to guess where he was going, and before I could even answer they told me he was going to Auckland New Zealand, My same mission!!! I was so excited for him and hugged him like crazy. I probably embarrassed myself a little bit but I was so excited for him to be going to the best mission in the world!!