It's been a busy couple of weeks and I haven't been able to think about blogging. Brooke and I went to New York City last week with a group of chorus kids. We went last year, too. It's a fun trip. I'll be posting about that with pictures soon. Then, Brooke has been running her youth basketball camp all this week. It's her Senior Project. She's been using my camera, so I never have it when I think about getting the pictures off of it to blog. Excuses, excuses, I know.

But, we did get some great pictures from Seth on his P-day this week. He looks great and it made me feel so good. He's studying long hours and struggling with the language, but it'll come. I'll include his email with these pictures as well. He has 45 minutes of email time. He had decided to split up his email time and he had alreadly emailed us in the morning and said he'd be back on with pictures at 4pm Brazil time. It was fun to be on the computer when he was.

"So these are some good pics I have so far. We also got two Brazilians in our dorm room. That pic has them in it. We are learning some more portuguese with them and they are way nice. Bye and talk to ya next week. We are going to drink some really good juice smoothies at the shop on the corner. Soo fresh! and 50 cents a glass. Love you."

Take me out to the ball game...

Gideon is having an awesome year in little league, especially for it being his first year playing at all. He loves it!It's machine pitch and Gideon plays shortshop. They are such a cute little team and we just love watching them. We have won 5 and lost 1.

This was a great game on Saturday. We were down 1-6 and then our team rallied and started hitting and, with this almost home run by Gid, the score was 7-7. This league has a rule that if the outfield gets it back to the pitcher before the runner gets halfway to the next base, then the runner has to go back. Well, they barely got it back to the pitcher when Gideon was almost home and so he had to go back to third. He had to do this twice off of two great hits. And then the other team made one more run, and thus, our first loss. Gotta learn to lose, too.

Smack....

Rounding second....

Almost home......

He's really having a great year.

That is, when he's not getting in trouble for climbing the backstop or dugout or whatever else is around:

For the first time in years, Steve is getting a chance to coach because we are not doing spring planting. It's been so nice not to be a farming widow and Steve is having a great time coaching Gideon's little league team.