Weekend

The weekend didn't go the way we planned. We were suppose to go strawberry picking after school on Friday, but all the rain on Thursday we decided to wait. Also JT started running a fever and not feeling well Thursday. On a good note though all 5 butterflies have come out. Now we just need to wait until it warms up enough to release them:

Saturday morning was a cold morning and it was opening day for the boys baseball teams. JT still wasn't 100% so he stayed home from the opening ceremonies but Dylan went. Also they had the banner contest for each division. The banner had to be homemade and so Todd did most of JT's team and Christina and I helped and Todd's mom sewed the edging on. We won first place for the minor league:

A lady from Dylan's team made their banner and it also won first place for the Pee Wee division:

So that was exciting. We didn't win any raffle prizes though. With JT not feeling well and it being so cool we didn't really do many activities this year. Both boys had a game Dylan's team won. Here he is at one of his bats, he got on base every time:

Here is Dylan playing 1st base:



Dylan catching a ball on first base for another out:

After Dylan's game we had about an hour to rest before returning for JT's game. JT said he felt well enough to play so we let him. Here is Emily and one of her friends playing underneath the bleachers at JT's game:

JT playing 2nd base:

JT at bat with a base hit, he got on base at every at bat too:

JT running to 3rd base:

JT's team ended up losing. Oh well, we will get them next time!

On Sunday we went out to eat with family for Todd's birthday. Todd wanted to go to Samurai's. It is a Japanese Steak and Sushi restaurant where they cook on the hibachi in front of you. I am not a big fan of oriental food, but will eat the chicken fried rice, but it was Todd's birthday so we went where he wanted. The kids love to go watch them cook too. There were so many of us they had to seat us at 2 tables/hibachi grills, but they were right across from each other. Here are JT and Emily and some cousins watching their food being cooked:

Here was the onion volcano:

Dylan sat at the other table next to Uncle Tyson and Uncle Mike here he is watching his food:

JT and Emily loved trying to use the chopsticks:

Dylan using his chopsticks:

Some of the restaurant staff came out singing happy birthday and put this hat on Todd's head and let him hold the samurai sword:

The cake:

After dinner I TRIED to get a family picture of us, but as you can see some of the kids didn't want to:

Overall it was a good weekend even though it didn't go the way I planned. We have 4 baseball games this week and a couple of practices in there too so it is back to the craziness around here.