Well, not forever or anything. Just for the Spring season on their DJ Hannon team, which was a great team by the way. Lots of super nice kids on the team, and of course some great coaches too (I may be a little partial to the coaches since the Manager was my brother in law Tom (also known as Uncle That Guy) and my husband (also known as John)! They were so supportive of eachother and just a good bunch of kids. They made it pretty far into the playoffs (further than before) and even though this was the last game, they played it with heart!

Lots of pictures which aren’t the best- at least not as close up as I had wanted. I only brought one lens as it is sooooooooo dusty up at the field, I wasn’t about to go swapping out lenses and getting my nicely cleaned cameras full of dirt dust. And the lens I brought is more all-purpose (24-70 2.8/f) than sports (70-200 2.8/f) cause I wanted to be able to get some shots in the dugout too. With the big guns lens, the dugout wouldn’t have happened.

Jack had a good game. He made a bunch of good plays at first, had a hit and a walk. In the games the previous weekend, he also played first in both games and did a great job! (Two weeks ago, the boys were called up to a National League game as that team was short players and then had a playoff game for their team immediately following at the same field. So it was baseball from 4:30pm-9:30pm, with dinner at almost 10pm for all of us! They were sooooo happy to be playing non-stop baseball for 5 hours!)A nice hit!!Joe B.- love his expression here. My nephew Brendan.Patrick pitched a 1-2-3 inning, walked once. In the games the previous weekend he got two hits, an amazing catch of a line drive at first and came in to pitch the final 2 outs of the last inning and got the last two batters out, won the game 7-6 with the bases loaded. Even I was at the edge of my seat. Waaaaaay too pressurey for me, but so happy he did so well!!The infamous J-Mac. This kid is speedy! Like really, really speedy.And has the best team spirit!One more of Patrick at bat. The opposing team, but caught a few shots for friends.
Timmy spent most games in the dugout, playing the ipad or the DS. He was the team mascot. 
Doritos and smiles with Joe B.
And with J-Mac.End of game pep talk from the Coach.And that’s that. Until summer baseball starts. 

It was a crazy fun weekend. Until….

Just kidding. Sorta.

Friday night I took Timmy to a sushi dinner date and to see Kung Fu Panda 2 while Jack & Patrick went to the Mets game with John. We met Jen, Jack & Michael there too. A few snaps from the iphone.

Saturday was an all day beach day and Saturday night was dinner at Churchill’s (aka Uncle Nelson’s). Sunday was the beach again followed by a redo of Kung Fu Panda 2 with the big boys, their two friends Robert and Johnny and Timmy and I. The big boys were bummed they missed it the first time, so I was nice and took them all. Again. Monday was an all day beach day, too. When making Monday’s plans with Christine, John told me to ask them to the Mets game as we had 8 tickets. I tried plying Christine with staying on the beach and dinner out but she decided on the Mets game so I had to go, too. The boys were thrilled that I was having my first visit to Citifiield!!!!!! I was not. But I sucked it up and did it and now they cannot ask me to go again until at least next year. At least.

TimTom (thanks Inez for the 3rd cousin clarification!) who could actually be fraternal twins. They stand the same, run the same, have the same build, etc. For 3rd cousins, the resembelence is a little scary!! They totally look like twins here. I’m not touching you….I’m not touching you…Carvel in a pink hat. Other than the fact that it was at a baseball game, that part was really good!Photographic proof that I was actually there. We stayed until the very, very end too. 

Sorry for the delay on today’s post. The blog was down for a while this morning. The boys have their 3rd round baseball playoff game tonight- hope they play as well as they did on Saturday!! More details on that coming soon.