Vacation Beginninngs!

We headed out on Friday -- Florida Bound!  Travel packs were complete and ready, with each boys stuff labeled with a J, K or E . . . believe me labeling is a requirment!

 We stopped off for a tour on Saturday morning of the Battleship and Submarine

 All pics are complete with imaginary sound effects!  It amazes me the gun fire sounds these boys can make and that all three can run around a life size battleship and be playing the same imaginary game!

 The boys loved it! Me. . . well I would have preferred to be shopping personally, but hey, it's just part of it and I couldn't help but think about all the places my Dad had to stop over the years where he would have rather been on a battleship:)!

 This pic is acutally from a stop off for dinner in Mobile on Friday night (above)

 Dinner at the Crab Trap - a Pitts favorite!

 Look who Kerry ran into . .  Thomas Dowden, from Bayou Billionaires!

 Kyler mid CannonBall!

Evan is now a pool pro! Jumping, posing and swimming!

 Jayden mid jump with Kyler right behind!  Jayden has perfected his front flips - just couldn't capture it on film yet, I've got a while to perfect it though!

 Wave riding!

We are loving us some beach life!  Right now, the boys are watching star wars, I am blogging and Kerry is frying up some fresh seafood! yum! 

Woosh! June was gone!

Well, there went the first month of Summer 2012!  How did that happen so fast?!

This never got blogged - Kyler ended the school year receiving an award for being a Remarkable Reader!  We all knew he was a math whiz but now we know he is a reading whiz too! yay Kp!             

 Kyler team made it til the final night of the tournament!  They didn't make it all the way, but placed 1st in Farmington and 3rd in the League -- pretty darn good end to the season! So proud of those boys!

 The final Spit Fire huddle for 2012 season!

I'm kind of embarrassed to even post these pics - can us say redneck!  It has been record breaking heat and this involved water and kept these boys busy for hours - so who cares!

 We opted to head to Aunti M's for some pool action the next day! 

 We packed a lunch, snacks and pool-ed it up!

 Evan and Bris - pizza and chocolate milk - the summer lunch of champs!

 And of course we have spent some timeat the shop . . .

It's been a great but busy first month of summer!  Jayden has been to Yellowstone, we've been to football camp in Missippi, gone to the college world series in Nebraska and finished it off in Florida!

Spittin' Fire and Winnin' Games

The Spit Fires are on a roll!  We started the tournament on Monday night and are headed for the final Championship night!  Wahoo!  That means that since Monday, we have driven to Westville, OK EVERY night for games!  Tonight we had TWO games. . . the first of which went into TWO extra innings and WE WON and then played again (some tired boys!) and WON again!

 Talk about intense!  Kyler and his teammates have played GREAT!

 Tomorrow we have a 6:00 game and depending on wins could play THREE games in a row!  It is the finals so it is our last nights drive to Oklahoma!

Since Monday we have not gotten home til around 10:00 --- WAY past bedtime!  One more night and Kyler's season is complete -- come on Spit Fires!!!!

It's been fun and super exciting to watch these boys play, especialy #18!  What a great end to the season!  Of course, we are super missing Jayden this week too!  But glad that we have a little excitement going to keep us occupied!  We will keep SPITTIN' FIRE through tomorrow night!!!

OmaGOSH . . OmaHOGS!

Oh yes we did!  We headed out spur of the moment to see the COLLEGE WORLD SERIES in Omaha, Nebraska and do a little Hog Callin'!  Jayden headed out with Pop and CiCi on Friday morning for Yellowstone and we just had to hit the road too!

 It was very exciting!  Finding tickets, the atmosphere, THE GAME!  I don't know who enjoyed it more, the boys or Kerry! 

 It's proabably the only baseball game I have intently watched and known exactly what was going on.  If I missed something, I just asked Kyler because he was very into it! We had 4 seats, but Evan ended up in someones lap the entire game . . . oh, well, he was the Birthday King after all!

In case you haven't noticed Kyler is anti-photos at the moment - hopefully it is a passing phase - if I am able to get a pic (and he dosen't delete it!) then he isn't very cooperative with his poseing!

 We spent both nights in Kansas City, MO.  Who knew that this GEM of a city was so close!  I loved it!  It's not very often that a sporting event trip ends up having some FAB shopping opportunities!  Really a neat area -- the Plaza . . . shopping gallore, neat atmosphere, fountains around every corner, cool restraurants and our hotel was right in the middle within walking distance to all.  I shopped while the boys hit the pool.

 We did lots of Kansas City dining. . . steak and seafood . . .

and of course Kansas City Bar-B Q on Father's Day.

 Kerry and Kyler at Jack Stacks on Fathers Day . .  so yum!!

And more dining!  A little room service for King Evan on his Birthday.  We had roomservice for Breakfast, shopped, swam and hit the road for Omaha and then post game- headed straight back for some late night swimming before the pool closed. . .  then, room service again for a late night (like 11pm!) steak dinner!  It was a fun little trip and I have a feeling we will be Kansas City bound again for a weekend getaway!

Go HOGS!

Happy 6th on the 6th Evan James!

place holder for Evan's B-day stuff.

Bye to TBALL, Hello Lake!

Bye Bye Tball . .  til next year!  Evan's Cardinal team closed out their season this Saturday.  They had a game at 1:00 a celebration pizza party at our house and then another game at 4:00, ending with a Medal presentation!  A big day!  I think Evan may still be wearing his Medal :)

 The hot and sweaty team ate, drank, jumped on the trampoline and swing set, ran around and played air hockey.

We had to turn on a little Tom and Jerry and try to get at least some of them to cool off before game number 2!

 What a fun season!  One team season down and 2 to go!

 On Sunday we headed to the lakehouse for a little lake living before Pop and CiCi headed back south.

 Somehow, CiCi ended up on a 2 man kayak with 3 boys!

 And of course we closed it out with Watermelon on the deck!

Yep, it's SUMMER!