I just realized I posted two blogs with pretty much all the same stuff in them. Told ya it was crazy right now and I tend to "blog" late at night so that explains it...so if anyone thought they had deja'vu(sp)...so sorry.
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Wow! What a crazy two weeks we Carter's have had. We are officially done with Van Buren baseball till next year. :( Dylan's all-star team played this past weekend and we ended up finishing 4th. Those little boys played their hearts out! We had both of the games we lost won, but they came back and beat us in the last inning. It didn't help that in both games we ended up being the visitors. The first game started out slow, but we finally starting hitting and got up 6-2 and kept that lead until the last inning and we just couldn't keep up. Played extremely well though. Our defense was awesome. Since we lost we played Saturday at 9 in the morning(boy, was that hard for me)! We played so good and won that one and we just knew at that point we were going to be playing all day. Our last game we were stomping them 10-2 and knew we had it in the bag, but one inning we just shut down and couldn't get them out. It was not fun and they ended up coming back and beating us. It was horrible, those poor little boys were crying so hard after it was over. At one point, I thought I was going to tear up for them. :( We had a good tournament and glad to see that those boys really were good, just a little younger than the other teams. Next year we will be the ones to beat!
We are so proud of Dylan, he did such a great job at catcher and he got some great hits! He had been pretty down since he had not been hitting and to see that smile again once he started hitting and he knew he could do it was awesome! His coach told us after the game that he loved watching Dylan play ball. He said he hustles so good and that is what he loves to see in a player(wish he would do that at home when I tell him to brush his teeth or take a shower-LOL). That made me feel so good. We had a really good coach that taught them a lot about baseball and it definitely showed!
So for now we are done. We have tryouts for fall ball next Monday, so we should start practicing soon after that. Glad to get a rest though, we have been so busy with baseball I have been dreaming about it! Now hoping to make a trip to McGehee the last weekend in July for our cousin Audra's wedding shower.
Oh yeah, we had to go see a plastic surgeon about Dylan's mouth. We went to see his doctor this past Thursday and he wanted us to see her because he was worried about how bad the scar was going to be. We went to see her today and we have to go back in two weeks. She wants to see him once it has completely healed. :( They are really worried about how bad the scar is going to be and if it turns out to be a thick scar they might end up having to do reconstructive surgery on it. Yeah, I know that cut didn't look that bad..but because of where it is the doctor is concerned. We won't know anything about doing surgery till a year from now, so say a prayer for us that we won't have to go through any of that. Right now we are just focusing on how to keep the scaring down and we will be going back to see her through out the year... you never know I might just have to go get Botox while he is in there!!! LOL-that was a BIG joke!!!!! :) I'll keep everyone posted on him and his progress.
As soon as I have some info on our fall ball schedule I'll let everyone know. I know that we will be playing on Saturdays, so if you didn't get to watch them play throughout the summer hopefully you might make a game or two this fall..we play up through the end of October. I know that both boys would be so excited if you guys came and watched them play and they are both really good. Talk to you guys soon!! Love you all.
Van Buren 7 yr old all-star team...look out next year they will be AWESOME!!!!
What a cute little catcher(it was so hot, I felt so sorry for him in all that gear)
Whooooo Hooooo!!!! Dylan made All-Stars!!!!! We are so excited baseball continues!!! We have been practicing everyday the past two weeks..it has been extremely busy, but fun for sure. The first practice was a week ago Monday. During the season Dylan played first base, but it looks like he will be playing catcher during all-stars. The first baseman we have on the team is awesome, so we figured Dylan wouldn't play there and it's ok. He is doing really good at catcher. When he first suited up, I personally had a major panic attack..but then I thought he is protected all the time and after watching him play there I realized he is actually really good there. He keeps the ball in front of him, most of the time and he can throw that ball to 2nd! Then about our 3rd practice I heard him tell the coach that he wanted him to keep throwing pop flys to him until he caught three in a row..Whoa, did that just come out of my son's mouth?????? I think this is on position he is really wanting to play. I'm proud of him for trying so hard at this position!!! He's doing so good. His hitting is finally picking up a little. Someone(not naming any names here) bought us a pitching machine....so we have been practicing on his hitting alot. Hopefully that will help alot!!! I noticed tonight at practice he is doing alot better. Pretty, pretty hits...just sailed into center field.
Anyway, we have our district tournament this weekend...if anyone wants to come watch him play(dad) we would LOVE it! You would enjoy watching him play, he is really good. Our State Tournament is in Pea Ridge and our Regional is in Lake Village. I think they are both "open" tournaments, which means we can play if we want to, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed our coaches will think we are good enought to play these tournaments. Would love to play there especially Lake Village because my family can come watch Dylan! Wish us luck.
We played Drew's last t-ball game last night. We have decided to put him in pitching machine fall ball. We let him hit with the pitching machine this past weekend and he's pretty good..I just worry about him fielding balls, but he might surprise me so we decided to take a chance on him after talking to some of the parents whose kids are on Dylan's all-star team and they are putting their kids in it and they are the same age as Drew. He is really excited about playing and if he does ok with it we are probably going to move him back to Van Buren and put him on Dylan's team for next year!
So that is where we are right now..busy, busy, busy..but loving it!!! We love us some baseball!!
Oh, I almost forgot...this past Sunday we were at practice for Dylan and Chris had to stay home because he had a migraine and I left Drew home to because he was asleep, well halfway through practice I was trying to get ahold of Chris and couldn't so I decided to leave to go home and check on Drew(we live like 5 min. from the complex), I was pulling out of the driveway and my phone rings and it's one of the coaches wives telling me to get back as soon as possible because Dylan had gotten hit in the mouth with the ball and it looked pretty bad. Needless to say, I panicked and "tried" to speed, but for some reason I got stuck behind the old woman driving 25 MPH. When I got there, they had gotten him calmed down and he had already told the coach he was ok and ready to go back in. Well, he wasn't ok and right under his lip was split into. Time to go to the ER. Didn't help that Chris had a migraine and was not able to get out of bed, but did help that my mother-in-law was able to go with me. Boy, I don't know what I would do without her! It's bad enough, that I don't handle situations like that well, but Dylan doesn't handle them well either, he is just like me so to have her there with me to calm my nerves and just to have someone to talk to was a blessing(thanks so much Mom)! We went to the ER and went to the hospital in Van Buren, I have never used this hospital before because our doctor is through St. Edwards in Fort Smith, but we figured it wouldn't be as busy so we went there...well, we were wrong and they were packed....of course! We were there with some nasty people, especially the lady sitting beside me who kept passing gas and blowing us out of the room and the woman who walked in with her husband and I swear she hadn't showered in a week! I live in this town and there are some disgusting people here...I just kept getting out the hand santitizer! After THREE hours in the ER, we ended up just getting his chin glued back together..I was definitely relieved because I wasn't looking forward to possibly holding down a child to get stitcheswho would probably pass out from panicking so much! Even though, I know Super Glue will end up costing me about $500!!!! It was a long night, but he is doing ok and hopefully we won't have anymore ER visits this year!!!
So that is it for now...we are gearing up for our tournament this weekend and hoping we do really good. We have a drs. appt. Thursday to make sure his chin is healing ok..he is still able to play, but just want "our" doctor to reassure me that it is ok.
Come on and join us this weekend for a fun tournament!!! :) Love you guys all so much!!!!
Dylan looking like he's played catcher all along!
Gettting ready
His mouth before the "glue"...this picture doesn't do it justice..it wasn't pretty
Ok, so here is our latest update on baseball. We got back from vacation and immediately started back to baseball. Dylan's end of the season tournament thankfully held off till we got back and we started that Monday. There was a heat index of probably 110 degrees it was soo hot! Drew was also playing and there were a couple of games that were at the same time. Dylan won his first game so we advanced and played the team that ended up winning the tournament. We played two games in one night and the heat was horrible so I was very proud of the way everyone played. We played again Tuesday night and won that game so that moved us to Thursday to possibly play two games. I can say our first game on Thursday was a nail biter. Those boys played their hearts our and we came out on top...I was glad because that was the game me and the ump went round and round. I wouldn't say I'm a "baseball mom" but other would tend to disagree, but when my son tips the ball and both coaches agree and the ump still calls him out, I'm going to "go off"(which I did)....I told him he needed glasses(he ended up telling the director that he made a mistake...ya think!!!) Anyway, we lost the 2nd game we played and we argued about that one because once again the ump doesn't have his own watch and goes by the scorekeepers time and her time just happened to be 10 minutes off from everyone else's..not going to say she was from the opposing team! :) We ended up finishing 4th in the tournament which I thought was a great accomplishment for our team since the majority of them are 1st year pitching machine.
So, Dylan made all-stars and we are continuing with baseball for the summer. He has been playing catcher and doing a really good job. He's only been playing ball for 2 years, but this is the first position that he is wanting to play. He is really wanting to learn this position and is really good at it! He told the coach the other night that was throwing pop flys to him that he wanted to keep trying to catch the ball until he caught three in a row. Wow-that is my son!!! You go Dylan. We had our first scrimmage tonight, wasn't very good. We've really got to improve our hitting and also some fielding. We will get better. The coach told us after the game that if he would have had a game ball Dylan would have gotten it for playing catcher so good. I think this is the position for him. We have now gotten a pitching machine(thanks, Deb) so we are going to get to work on hitting more..he really needs to improve there! We've got a lot of work to do and hopefully within the next week we will improve. I'm really wanting to go to State because we will get to go to Pea Ridge, which is where Landon plays. I don't care if we play them, I would just like to be there with them in a tournament. So wish us luck that we will hopefully get there!!!! We start our tournament next weekend, so if you guys don't have plans come on to Van Buren and watch Dylan play(DAD).
I can't make this post all about Dylan because Drew is still playing too! He played the same week of Dylan's tournament and won two and lost two. He's not done yet, his end of season tournament starts next week and we have a game Monday night. If we lose we're done, so cross your fingers we win or he is done and wish me luck because Chris goes out of town Monday and won't be back till Thursday and with his games and Dylan's practice I don't know how I'm going to manage. He doesn't have all stars, but we are thinking about putting him in fall pitching machine with Dylan and seeing how he does. Yes, we are continuing with baseball through October with Dylan. We haven't decided about Drew yet, we think he will be good at it, but we are still hesitant because of his age. If anyone has advice, please give it to me!! Anyway, that is our life in a nutshell right now. We live and breathe baseball, but we ABSOLUTELY love it!!!! Come watch them play, it is so much fun!!!!!!
Love you all!!!!
Dylan at catcher
He is a good catcher
Drew on first
Ok, so let me start by saying sorry for the absence in blog world. We have been extremely busy these days with baseball and this is the first time I've felt like blogging in a while. We got back from vacation and we have been at the ballfield everyday since..no joke! Anyway, we had a wonderful vacation this year. We went to Gulf Shores with Keith and Jennifer and it was so worth it. Our kids really get along and they had a great time together. Took us a while to get down there, I guess when you get to Mobile on Saturday mid afternoon that is when everyone else is going down there too, so traffic was horrible. I seriously thought between Chris and Keith someone was going to get hurt! We were suppose to get there around 2ish and ended up getting there about 6! Loooong trip, but we made it and had a blast. Just spent time on the beach for a week..tanning, burning, catching fish, crabs, etc. Wonderful, relaxing vacation. Here are a few pictures from our trip. I'll try to post more, this is all it would let me do right now.
This was the last night crab hunting with all the kids.
Remember to always rub your sunscreen in, even if it is spray on!
The kids and there fish hole
A couple of weeks ago before Dylan got out of school for summer break, they had a cutest pet contest and had an animal parade. They voted at the school for a couple of weeks by putting their change into the student's can whose dog they thought was the cutest and Dylan and Sammy got 2nd place! The money raised went to a charity for guide dogs which we thought was really great. Anyway, since they won they were able to walk 2nd in the pet parade at the school. It was so much fun and Dylan was so proud of his dog. Everyone thought he was the cutest dog!!! Towards the end I think Sammy had had enough and didn't want to walk anymore because Dylan had to drag him. It was so cute because he would just sit there and Dylan would be tugging on his leash and it was like Sammy was saying "No way I'm not going any further."
I think finally we have found a dog that totally suits us. He is doing really, really good. He does really good about going to the bathroom outside. I think we've maybe had three accidents in the house so that is really good. He's just such a sweet dog and loves the boys too! We had a little scare with him last week, Drew was outside playing baseball (of course) and he didn't see Sammy behind him and hit him with the bat. It was really scary because I wasn't out there and didn't know what exactly happened and didn't know how hard he hit him. We took him to the vet and he had a concussion and was out of for a couple of days, but he is back to himself now. Hopefully that won't happen again.
I don't know if anyone noticed, but we changed his name to Sammy from Gizmo!!!
So here are a few pictures from the pet parade I thought you guys would enjoy!
Sammy was so excited to see Dylan!
And they were off on the parade.
Sammy was dragging a little
Ok, I haven't updated in a couple of weeks so I'm sorry, but we have been super busy with everything going on. The boys have finally been able to play ball considering last month was a gulley washer and we were pretty much rained out the whole month! Dylan's team is finally starting to show some improvement. They are all starting to hit and we have won some games. We played 3 games last Saturday and won all three. We started at 10 in the morning and finally finished around 7 that night. It was alot of fun, but we were all worn out. Dylan did really good, he is playing very good at 1st base. He's getting better at batting, I think his nerves get the best of him sometimes. He struck out a couple of times that weekend, but the last game we were down by 5 or 6 runs and when Dylan got up to bat we had two outs! He got an awesome hit and started us off and after him everyone hit the ball and we came back and won! It was so much fun, we were all jumping up and down and yelling. Now that is what I call playing baseball, so exciting!!!! He's played three times this week and we've won one, which was tonight. He got 6 outs at 1st base, alot of the hits came to him and he did a great job of not letting them get by him. We are so proud of him and the baseball player he is becoming. He is learning the game and really enjoying it. I'm not ready for it to be over, I could play all year long!!
Now onto Drew, for the few games that he has played he is going to be one awesome ball player. He's finally starting to figure it out and starting to not run across the whole field every time he gets the ball. He usually plays 2nd base, but the few times he's played pitcher he has really done a good job. He's caught a pop fly and one game he got all 3 outs on his own and of course every time he bats he gets really good hits. I swear he swings his bat in his sleep! He's always walking around swinging his "bat" or throwing the "ball". He's so funny and I hope he sticks with baseball because I know he will be a very good baseball player. It's just really tough when him and Dylan have games at the same time..we've had that happen last Saturday and today. I hate missing either one of their games. Drew did make me feel better today when he told me that he wanted me to come to his game tonight because I cheer for him and his daddy just sits there. That made me feel really good because he always wants to be with his daddy and to know my cheering(yelling as I call it) makes him feel good. He always makes sure I'm watching when he bats or when he comes across the plate. He's so cute!!!
Anyway, that is what's been going on with baseball the past couple of weeks, we have been busy, busy with it. It is so much fun though!!! I love to see my kids succeed at stuff and the smile on their face when they know they are doing good. It melts my heart!!!
Go Dylan!! We are so proud of you!!
