BASEBALL!!

I know, you thinking, now?  really? Baseball has already started?

Well for us, spring baseball has already started...  Lets backup and re-cap.

We played with the North Texas Glory in the fall,  that team pretty much fell apart and we went looking.  M went to 2 different tryouts, got offered spots on both of those teams so he had to choose which one. the one he chose?

The Dallas Tigers.....

We have had a couple of informal practices, including one good session of BP, but this was kind of our first real, big, team practice.

The weather was great and it was a great practice.  I really like the coach, his attitude, the way he works the boys, etc.  We are really looking forward to a great season of Baseball!

4 Christmas' and a Vacation

Well as usual, our holiday time is pretty hectic, and it started early this year, We had our first family "Christmas" the first week in December.  That one was for my dad's side of the family, Uncle Steve made his famous enchiladas, which were excellent as usual,  and a good time was had by all (except for maybe Owen, who kept getting beaned by balls every time he came in the room,  of course the people throwing the balls were the LOML and my child.. no surprise there)

Next was our crazy weekend, on Saturday morning we went to my mothers for the family "Christmas", which as usual was pretty exciting.  There were gifts with multiple tags, there will gifts with the wrong tags, there will gifts to people that the tag said it was from them!

The stove smoked up the house and as usual there was no where near enough food for all of us  (yeah right)  The three of us then ran off to the PG party at billy bobs,  then came back to my moms to drop M off, then went home to change, then E and I went to the PG concert that night at Billy Bobs,  we got home very late in the evening (or early in the morning, depending on how you want to look at it) and got up early and went back to my moms because we had "Christmas" for her side of the family that day at her house.  All in all M got way too many presents (and way too many Nerf guns) and we all had a good time seeing family.

Next was E's side of the family, we met his parents for dinner one evening and had a short but sweet Christmas but as usual with our hectic schedule, that is all the time we could pull together.

Then, we were off to Colorado,  we rented a house just north of Idaho Springs, got 2 feet of snow on the ground the first day we were there, and had a good time relaxing and getting away from it all.  We did manage to do a few things while were there, like go to the Argo Tunnel and Mill

The Railroad museum  (second best railroad museum we have been to)

The Coors Tour

Had many Snowball Fights

(cant have a snowball fight without a fort Squidward....  you didnt let me crouch down!)

and santa even managed to find us out there on the mountain and bring M a few things..

All in all it was a great December and a good way to close out 2011

here's looking forward to 2012!

Pat F'n Green!

Everyone who knows us, knows we are BIG Pat Green fans.  Every year Pat's fan club hosts a party at Billy Bobs on the day of his December Concert, and we go to the party and concert assuming our schedule allows.  This year, the schedule part was tough and we ended up driving back and forth across the metroplex all day long to get it all done, but we lived so I guess it was all good.

The afternoon party was great, we skipped the "wait for 2 hours in line to get your picture with Pat" part because we have a stack of pics of us with Pat and partly because the schedule for the day was pretty hectic.  We did get there in time for the question and answer part

and then the "private" concert.  Which as always he did a great job.

Then we were back that evening for the concert and it was great as usual.  Honestly it was like the Pat Green of the old days.  He sang songs like "Here we Go" and "Southbound 35" that are songs that made him famous at dance halls around Texas.

He did a cool version of "Galleywinter", and "Baby Doll" that both really show off his writing and performing talent.  Of course, he sang some of the more "pop" stuff for all the girls in the audience and he sang songs off his new album.  One was called "Austin" and another was called "All just to get to you" which they were also shooting a video for.  Its a cool song, he did it once during the afternoon party and twice during the evening concert.

Here is a video about the song I found on youtube from when he played western days in lewisville (which we did not go to, I know, we're bad)

All in all we were glad to see Pat back to his old self and had a great time at the concert.

The things I have to put up with...

see the kinds of things I have to put up with!

Link to story the LOML wrote.....