Jungle Gym--spring 2010

Came across this collage I made from March 2010.. oh how my babies are growing!! She was 28 months and he was 5 1/2 yrs!!!
Which makes Mallory about the same age here as Madden is now :)

Softball

This was the first year of ball for Mallory. She was on a Bondurant TeeWee team, which is preschool,kindergarten, and 1st graders.  She loved playing tball and we had fun watching her improve as the season went on.

 That is her running up to the ball.





Throwing to 1st base

Hitting off the T

After a game with a teammate and fellow preschool classmate

 

Baseball

 Mason was busy from January til the end of June playing baseball. He played on a couple different teams.  He played baseball for a Bondurant Little League Pee Wee league (1st and 2nd graders) during the week in May and June.

 They were undefeated and this photo was taken after the game with their trophies Coach Sanderson presented them with.

 They then went on to win the Pee Wee division championship. They played 4 games to win the Pee Division.

14-2 vs black (bondurant team)

18-0 vs green (bondurant team)

13-0 vs Pleasant Hill Cubs

9-6 vs Four Mile Grey

 

 This photos was taken after the championship win! Was a fun season to watch and watch the boys improve. They played about 20 games. Their weekly games were on Monday and Wednesday nights.

 On weekends we were busy with the Altoona Rampage 8U tournament team.Practices started in January, and those were held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with some Saturday mornings. Our first tournament was to be the last weekend in March, but the snow we got cancelled that weekend of games. We then had a week off and had our next tournament April 13th.  This photo was from the 2nd tournament in which we got 3rd place. Was a great way to start off the season. Josh and Amy were great coaches and we had a fun summer of baseball.

 

    

Mason played 1st base and pitched. He had a good season and we saw lots of improvements in both positions. He enjoys doing both.

  

        

                                                                                                           

  

  

Here are the scores from our Rampage 8U tournaments

 Sat April 13, 2013 (@ Norwalk)

     Carlisle Wildcats 7             Rampage 2

     Midwest Pride Black 13                Rampage 4

 Sun April 14, 2013 (@Norwalk)

     Mid Iowa Titans 5             Rampage 4

     Rampage 9               Rams Club Gold 2

     Rampage 14           Norwalk Thnunder 1  

Sat April 20, 2013 (@Walnut Creek)

     Rampage 11              Des Moines Dragons 2

     Rampage 17               Indianola Storm 0

Sun April 21, 2013 (@Walnut Creek)

     Ankeny Hawks 22             Rampage 4

     Rampage 5           Mid West Pride Black 4

THIRD PLACE FINISH!!!!!

May 18, 2013 (Holiday Park)

    Rampage 12       Rams Club Gold 8

    Iowa Sharks 5         Rampage 4

May 19, 2013 (Holiday park)

    ADM 9     Rampage  3

 (rest of the day got rained out so didn't get to play out places)

May 25, 2013 (James Cownie)

    Rampage 11      Huskies 1

    Rampage 6      Carlisle Wildcats 5

May 26, 2013 (James Cownie)

    Rampage 12     Huskies 2

    Urbandale JHawks 8     Rampage 0

    Rampage 13      Mid Iowa Titans 4

June 8, 2013 (Walnut Creek)

    MidWest Pride White 8     Rampage 7

    Rampage 19       Norwalk Riversharks 0

June 9, 2013 (Walnut Creek)

 RAINED OUT

 

June 15, 2013 (Holiday park)

    Rams Club Black 12     Rampage 8

    Rampage 9      Riders 0

June 16, 2013 (Holiday park)

    Rampage 8            Norwalk Warriors 5
    Mustangs 15        Rampage 0



STATE 8U AA Tournament
June 21, 2013 (Norwalk)
    Rampage 10       Capital City Crush 6
    Tigers Youth Baseball 5     Rampage 3
June 22, 2013 (Norwalk)
    Rampage 5       Johnston Beasts 0
    Dubuque Marlins 10     Rampage 0
June 23, 2103
RAINED OUT FINALS

The overall record was 15-12.    

   

     

Locks Of Love

Little girl has never really enjoyed her hair being brushed. So when she decided that she would get her hair cut in June and donate it to Locks of Love, I was on board. She was brave and never shed a tear, even though she had 10" of hair cut off. We love the new haircut and the fact that she doesn't cry or throw a fit when it has to be brushed is an added bonus.  I have a feeling she will be growing it out again, and donating some more :)

First and Last days of school 2012-2013

 

Hard to believe that Mason's 2nd grade year has come and gone, and Mallory is done with preschool. Will have a kindergartner and a 3rd grader in the fall of 2013      

Misc photos...

These 2 kids spend about 75% of their mornings in a laundry basket, building forts with laundry baskets, making trains out of laundry baskets, making tables out of laundry baskets, playing hide and seek with laundry baskets...



now if only I could get them to do the laundry that was in the said laundry baskets that they are dumping out

 

The AWANA group the two older kids attend had a skating party one Sunday night. Both kids had a great time

 

 

 

 

The beginning of February a group of us headed to Omaha, NE to stay at Coco Keys .  Mallory has always been a little afraid of getting her face wet and wanted nothing to do with splashing of water in her face.. as you can see, she overcame that fear this weekend and was going down water slide after water slide!!!!

 

Here is a picture of all the kids that we met there. Grandma Betty watched Madden back at our house, and what a blessing it was to not have to worry about an 18 month old's schedule. Made doing things and getting away a little more relaxing for this momma.

We then headed The Pizza Factory, which is a lot like Incredible Pizza here in Des Moines, just a little bigger. Kids seemed to have a good time there also.

 

 

 

Presidents Day weekend Aunt Kristin was back from Chicago visiting my parents, so we went and stayed at the farm for a few days to visit grandma/grandpa and Aunt 'Kissy'.....

 

Pa decided it was time to play beauty shop :)

Little boy is a HUGE player of  'Monkey See Monkey Do'... it has gotten quite comical at times, cause he seems to do it when you least expect it. If only I had a camera for eyes to catch all the moments....

We met cousin Cael at Playground for Kids in Ankeny one Monday morning

 

 

A couple weeks worth of Build & Grow at Lowes. Monster Trucks were the projects they built both weeks.. Grave digger... and Monster Mutt...

 

 

 

 

 

And what trip to Ames, IA doesn't involve a stop at Hickory Park ?!?!  This littl girl I think got only the BLUE in the Scooper Hero ice cream

 

 

Cute Mallory stories...

Mondays are days that Mallory doesn't have preschool, and Mason is done earlier. So naps for little boy and mondays in general are a little hectic and non routine days. This was the typical Monday. I took a shower while Madden was napping and while Mallory was eating her lunch. When I was finished and came out of my room, I went into Mallory's room to put away some shoes that were in my room.. only to notice she had completely made her bad, she had picked up almost every last thing off her floor, her books were in the book shelf and the baskets, the clothes were all in the clothes hamper, she was in the kitchen with the broom and dust pan cleaning up under the table, the livingroom was almost picked up.... all of this unprompted by me!!! When I commented that her bed looked perfect and that her room looked awesome, and that her cleaning up the kitchen for me made my heart proud.. she responds with 'Mommy, I'm just helping you out by doing my chores so you don't have to do all the chores by yourself!!!!'   Awwww such a sweet sweet little girl. I know she can be a good helper and I know she is a good cleaner (she gets best tickets at school for being a 'super duper picker upper  so I know she can do it... she just usually fights me when I ask her to do it at home) So to see that she did all this on her own free willl... THEN proceeded to head to the basement to pick up the basement... makes me realize my little girl is growing up, and turning into a precious young girl.


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The next day, I get out of the shower to find her standing at the sink with a stool washing our breakfast dishes!!!

Love watching my little girl transform into a big girl..