Cheese!

Father's Day at the Rockies:

Party Time!

We finally had Hope's birthday party last week. Since the end of the school year is always so crazy, we decided to wait until after school was out. She invited a few friends for a trip to the mall for some shopping and dinner and then a sleepover and swimming the next day! I somehow forgot to take swimming pictures. :(

First and Last

Yesterday was Hope's LAST day of 2nd Grade and FIRST softball game.

She had a great last day of school. The kids got to sign yearbooks and her teacher, Mrs. Wardlow, had a sweet little presentation at the end. She wrote a poem about their last two years together (she looped up from 1st grade with the class)and read it through tears. She also wrote an acrostic poem for each of the kids using their names. Hope's was:

Helpful
Optimistic

Performer
Enthusiastic

I think all of these words provide a great description of Hope!

A few "last day" pics:

Hope with one of her best friends, Taylor

Hope and her Buddy, Cam

Getting her principal's "autograph"

With Mrs. Wardlow - We're going to miss her!

She also had her first softball game. She is playing "Coach Pitch" this year which is a VERY welcome change from the last 3 years of T-Ball. She had 4 great hits and did awesome at each of the positions she played - 1st base, 3rd base, and left field. Brandon is one of the coaches so they're really enjoying their time together!

Hitting the ball:

Getting the out:

Go United!

Hope's soccer team wrapped up the season with a tournament this weekend.  They all played really great and ended up 4-0!!!  Way to go United!

8 years-old!

Wow!  I have an 8 year-old.  Hope celebrated her birthday on Friday and it really is hard for me to believe how fast the last 8 years have gone.  Am I REALLY old enough to have an 8 year-old?  In some ways, it seems such a short time ago that I held her as a newborn - an 8 pound, black-haired little bundle of joy.  Although we've been through days that have felt more like weeks and I'm sure there are more of those to come as we get closer to the teenage years, I wouldn't trade a single second I've had with my little girl.  Okay, maybe there are a few seconds I would trade, but most have been wonderful and those that haven't been have only made us stronger! 

Hope has such personality and constantly keeps us on our toes.  She is forever singing very loudly, loves to read, enjoys playing soccer, softball and basketball as much for the social aspect as anything, loves acting and performing.  She is very much a teenager in an 8 year-old body - she thinks it's totally dumb that we won't let her have her own cell phone and laptop.  I'm not about to let her grow up that fast!

Happy Birthday Little Girl!

 

May 2002

May 2010

Rockies Win!

Yesterday it was raining and snowing.  It was cold.  It was a school day.  Hope's school called at 9:00 am because she had thrown up in class.  Doesn't all of that make you think "Today would be a great day for a baseball game!"?  Yeah, me neither.  But, turns out, it was! 

The Phillies were in town for only 3 games.  They were all during the week, and only one was a day game.  We knew we wanted for all of us to be able to get to a game for a chance to see Ross play so we had planned a long time ago to go the day game so Hope wouldn't be up too late on a school night.  Well, for a few hours, we weren't sure we'd be able to make it.

But lo and behold. . . the sky stopped spitting, Hope's "illness" was just caused by taking antibiotics on an empty stomach, and we still had access to our winter clothes!  So, we headed out to Coor's Field with Jill and her boys, and Rob and Wil.  It was definitely VERY cold, but nothing a little hot chocolate couldn't take care of!

Mother's Day

The weather around here hasn't been great lately, but Mother Nature was kind to her fellow mothers on Mother's Day.  We had a nice picnic in the park with Mom and Doc, Rob, Leah, Wil and Anna, Jill, Joel, Jared and Justin.  The kids played baseball and played on the playground.  We celebrated Doc's birthday with cupcakes, and ate yummy food!  Happy Mother's Day!