enjoying summer

I am truly enjoying my summer this year. It has been several years since I have had a summer off of school. I really wanted to take advantage of my time off before the next 3 grueling years begin. Baseball has kept me busy, but besides that I have done a lot of things I havent been able to do because of time. First off I am working one long day (10 hours), and 3 short days (7.5 hr), my short days end at 2:30 which gives me plenty of time to do stuff when I get home. I still have my fridays off, which used to consist of housework since the rest of my weekend was spent on homework, but this summer I have been enjoying my fridays with James and his bff Jacob...We've spent most of our fridays at the pool. I'm so thankful that we are having a nice warm summer. I've spent more time at the pool this year than I have in the past 3 years. Its been great!!! Besides the pool Ive been enjoying a lot of ice cream, long walks to the movie store with the dogs, and bike rides. Last year we were told there was a zip line off of one of the bike trails by our house. Dave and I finally took a ride to see if we could find it. Initially we were skeptical, but since it was suppose to be close to where the park district build dirt bike ramps we thought maybe they had other activities. Well after a very very buggy bike ride we found the zip line....attached to play ground equipment. the zip line was for small children...big disappointment. oh well...we had a nice bike ride. summer is half over...so what can I do before aug 31?!?!?!?!

Baseball

Well the baseball season has officially come to a close for the summer. James improved so much over the past few months, we couldnt be prouder. He really seems to enjoy playing and is already looking forward to playing fall ball (along with cross country) His team didnt do too well with a regular season record of 3-14. The last game of the season was against his best friend and they won! (he even threw out his friend at 1st base to end the game) He was pretty excited that they won since his best friend is a really good player. After the regular season an in house tournament began, two losses and the season was over. They lost the first game which put them into the loser bracket, but then they won the next 3 games (of which were played at 7:30 fri night, 1pm and 7pm Sat...AND it was 90+ outside) The rain allowed a few days off, but unfortunately that game ended in a loss (to James bff...go figure) Overall they took 4th place out of 11 teams...not too bad :)