Baseball continues...

Baseball season continues and we had another Saturday filled with games. Teddy's Rockies played against the Sun Devils and won! Yea! Teddy played first base throughout the game and ended up with 2 great hits!

Ryan's team, the Dodgers, has been undefeated this season. Yesterday they played the second place team and unfortunately lost a tough game. Ryan played hard at first base and the pitcher position and drove in some runs while getting himself on base.

Though the season seems like it goes on forever, I still love watching the boys play ball every time. It's amazing to think how far they've come from t-ball so many years ago!

Women's Half Marathon-AZ

On Sunday, November 7th, I ran the Women's Half Marathon here in Scottsdale and Tempe. I've been training since completing my triathlon back in October, so it felt great to cross the finish and feel that I was well-prepared.
I was able to keep my training pace of 10-minute miles throughout the whole race. The shin-splints I had the week before the race, ended up being a non-issue, thank God!

I had projected my finish to be somewhere between 2:20 and 2:30, so Ted and the boys came to see me finish. Little did they know that I was heading to the finish at 2:12! They missed me at the finish (oops!) and I never could find them in the sea of 6000+ racers and their families!

When I got back to my car, which was parked about a 10 minute walk from the finish, I was able to call Ted and find out where they were:) They met me at the car and I got big congratulation hugs! Thanks, boys!

You can view the results in the attached link!

http://results.active.com/pages/page.jsp?eventLinkageID=134246

New Baseball Endeavors...

Recently, Ryan was invited to play with a new 8U team called the Sandlot. He is so excited because this team will be playing in the big tournaments that Teddy has played in before. Ryan has been wanting to play in these tournament for some time now! We're so excited that he's getting the opportunity to do so.

As there are not many 8U teams, they will play mostly 9U tournaments. This weekend was their first tournament at a park called Big League Dreams. Each field is designed after a MLB field. Ryan's team played at Yankee Stadium and at the Angels Stadium on Saturday. Unfortunately, Ryan was not feeling well this weekend and was only able to play the Saturday games.

But on Sunday, the team played really well and ended up winning the tournament! Go Sandlot!

Halloween 2010

Halloween has already come and gone...hard to believe! This year the boys chose some neat designs to carve their pumpkins. Ryan wasn't too into his pumpkin, so Daddy helped out a bit:-)
This one is his - the skull!

Teddy carved his pumpkin nearly all on his own! How did he become old enough to do that?? Here is his pumpkin...the Black Widow Spider!

Their costumes seem to be familiar...weren't they just Darth Vader and a Clone Trooper recently? Oh well. They wanted to be these again...who am I to argue?

We headed over to Kristen's house to trick or treat again this year. There seemed to not be very many kids out this year. So every house we went to was literally dumping candy into their bags for fear of having too much left over! The boys' bags were pretty heavy when the night was over!

Grand Canyon

Ted's cousin, Emily, came to visit AZ a few weeks ago. She's never been out West, so Ted's uncle Carl decided to take her up to the Grand Canyon and invited us to go! The boys were excited to see the canyon again, as was I! It was a beautiful day, too. Cool enough to warrant wearing fall clothing, which was exciting for us, since it's been in the 90's still!

The boys loved the train ride to and from the Canyon. There were entertainers who came through the cars at different times. Some were musicians, others were playing the parts of Marshall or train robber. It was really fun for the boys!

CHICAGO!

Over Labor Day weekend, we decided to take a quick trip to Chicago, both to sightsee and to visit Ted's family in Peru, IL. It was an amazing weekend and we tried to cram as much as possible into a short visit!

One highlight of the trip was certainly our visit to Wrigley Field to watch a Cubs game! They played the Mets and ended up winning a very exciting game!

We also got to visit with all the family in Peru and Barb and Elizabeth:-)

Fall Baseball

You'd think I'd have something different to post about once in a while, but it seems our life is once again consumed by baseball. Actually, that's alright with me. I love going to the games, providing it's not over 100 degrees outside. Luckily, many families have invested in tents which we all huddle under during those long, hot games in early fall and late spring.
Anyway, Ryan is playing for the Dodgers again this season and it's most likely their last season of coach-pitch. They'll be moving up next spring to kid-pitch! For now, Ryan is playing first base and is also practicing hard at catcher so that he can become one of the few left-handed catchers in the majors:-)


Teddy has changed teams this season and joined the Rockies. He is excited to be trying out his pitching arm during some of the games this season! He didn't get much of a chance to pitch last season, so he is glad to have some time on the mound.

When he's not pitching, you can find Teddy at 2nd, short or center field. He's even played 1st base occasionally. He has made new friends on this team and is quite happy with his decision to make the switch. His old team, the Outlaws, are a little older and moved up a division.