All Star State Playoffs

Since the boys won districts we are now headed off to state which is in Bend.  We left this afternoon about 12.  Brady, Carson and I are excited for a fun trip!

 The other kids are at home.  Brooklyn is at basketball camp at E.O.U and the the little ones are hanging out at Connie's this afternoon, which they are so excited about.  We got to Bend about 4:00, opening ceremonies started at 5:30, so we had a lot of time, or so we thought.  We were given the wrong address and were driving around and around trying to find out where we were supposed to be, we finally got there about 5:15.  It was held at the Bend Elks field (a minor league team.)  It wasn't anything too fancy, but was fun to be there.

 We watched a little bit of the game, but went to John & Tracy's early.  My friend Katie asked her brother and his wife if we could stay there for the week, it was so nice to have a place to stay and not have to pay for a hotel for 7 nights!  There first game was at 9 on Saturday morning against West Salem. They did great and won in 4 innings 15-0.  After the game all of the team went to the Sun Mountain Fun Center to celebrate Anthony's birthday.  Brady had a blast, he rode go-carts, bumper carts, mini golf, bowling and the batting cages, it was a lot of fun.

Carson slept in his stroller for most of the time, which was really nice.  Sunday the team played at 11, we went to church, hung out and then went to the lake for a picnic dinner with John & Tracy.  It was nice to relax and spend some time visiting.  They won their game 2-1, close!  We played Monday night at 6 against Clackamas. We lost 10-5, tons of errors and we didn't play very good at all.  Tuesday morning they had batting practice out at the RV park where the coaches were staying at 10.  Then the game got cancelled that night because of rain, which moved the whole tournie back a day.  Wednesday, batting practice again and then Brian took the boys to the movie, Planes 2, which was nice Brady had a good time and enjoyed the movie, Carson took a long nap and I did some shopping as well.  We won Wednesday night 11-10 against Medford.  We were down 10-3 in the bottom of the sixth we came back and won 11-10, it was a crazy game!!  Very exciting!  Brady started off the batting order and got a base hit!  Thursday at 4 we played Cedar Mills and won 10-3. Chas, Beckett and Emree were able to come over for the rest of the tournament.
Friday they played again at 4 against Clackamas, we won in 4 innings 10-0.  So we were in the championship against Bend.  The boys played well, but had a couple bad errors so we ended up losing to Bend 17-10.  Brady had a great season and has improved so much, he loves baseball!!