Laynie Dog

This year in May, our sweet dog Laynie passed away.  She was 12 years old, we got her while I was pregnant with Clayton in NC, she was an exceptional calm, loving dog.  When she was a puppy, still in NC, I would come home from work to find yarn through out the yard, through the doggie door and all over the house and usually sitting in front of the TV was a chewed stick from outside, I could never get too angry with her, she'd just look at me as if to say, "Did you see the beautiful things I did with your yarn mom?  and do you want a bite of this yummy stick...?"  

 

We buried her in the country on my brother in law's land, we had a prayer and the boys all cried and helped cover her.  We had made an appointment to put her down the same day she passed away, but she died at home surrounded by her family, because that was what she was to us, family

 

Baseball Madness

Baseball is one of my favorite sports, I grew up with my sister playing softball and my dad coaching the team, we traveled all over most Saturday's and I would cheer on the team.  I played softball during my teens with my church, but for the most part I'm too uncoordinated to bother with all that nonsense...

I wanted to instill that same love of baseball WITHOUT the coordination issues... I am trying my darnest to do that.  Step one; marry an athletic man, check.  Step two;  have boys, check.  Step three;  make enough money to sign 3 children into a not cheap sport, check;  Step four; get all 3 previously mentioned boys to practices and games, trying... really hard

Clay is in the major's, he's team is the Met's and he is really hitting well this season.

Cregan and Collin are on the Dodgers, Cregan has pitched a couple of games and Cregan is the youngest on the team and take his 'cuteness factor' and runs with it.... he has the coaches and the parents wrapped around his little finger.... we try to reign him in a bit, mostly by not letting him be the catcher, in which he doesn't actually catch the ball, but draws in the dirt and looks expectedly at the umpire to get the ball for him....