Maddie the frog catcher

Maddie is REALLY into catching frogs out of our little fish pond.  I'm not sure her friend was loving it quite as much.....

Chicago or bust....

Peyton had a couple soccer league games up in Chicago over the weekend, the exact date was April 27.....so heavily into spring at this point.
The girls got home from 6th grade camp at 3:30, they went home showered, we started their nasty and wet laundry, and then hit the road to Chicago.  We picked the Lorms girls up on our way and off we went.
The girls fell asleep about half way there, they were super tired from camp.  We pulled into the hotel around 12:30 and they had our room completely messed up.  We finally got in our room and was able to go to sleep.  The next morning we wake up to a ton of snow and cancelled soccer games.  So we were back on the road headed home by 10:30 in the morning.  UGH!!!

Just because......

6th Grade Camp

Hi ho hi ho, it’s off to sixth grade camp she goes!!!  Terrible timing with her back, as she couldn’t do some of the things, but she made the best of it and went anyway.

It POURED the entire three days if camp!!  And I mean poured!!!  I went down and volunteered the second day and I had brought an extra change of clothes for me for the car ride home.  I ended up leaving that change of clothes and anything else I had with any girl that could fit in it.  The kids did not have one single dry piece of clothing left.  The rooms STUNK!!!  But they were all still smiling and making the best of it!!  

Easter

This was the first Easter that there was no Farm.  So we hosted Easter morning brunch for the Wondel side.  We ate, hung out, egg hunted, and then everyone went on their ways to other places.  We only had three egg hunters this year, we are growing up.  :(

Grandma and Grandpa Farm scored the MO Bank's Cardinals seats, so they had four tickets.  At first, they were gonna take Peyton and me, cause Jack wanted to go fishing at GG's house.  As we were pulling out of the driveway, he changed his mind and wanted to go.  I had to sacrifice me ticket....it was a beautiful day for fishing AND baseball.  The Friedman kids even finally brought him a win!  Mike, Maddie and I headed out to GG's for Easter and fishing.

It was a beautiful day!

Thunder Tournament

Jack's little school team, the Thunder, which he has played on since he was little bitty played a tournament over in IL.  They came out on top and those boys were so happy!!

It is some bad baseball, but Jack loves playing with them!!  He gets to do things on this team that he does not get to do on his Naturals team.  The level play is much lower, pitching much different.....in fact that's what he loves.  Jack gets to pitch on this team, and at this level is a very good pitcher!!!

He pitched three innings in pool play and 4 innings in the championship game.  If he was a "real" pitcher, he'd never be able to throw that much at this age, but Jack doesn't over-powering anything, not putting too much strain on his arm.  He was responsible for 10 of the 12 outs in those 4 innings.

Here the smiley boys are.....