The Brown Brick Road

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More baseball

During the spring the Yard Goats played in the OTM league and also did several weekend tournaments around Alabama. Spencer consistently played catcher and outfield and pitched a decent amount too. The Yard Goats did not have what anyone would call a winning season. They were mostly playing up in AAA when they are really a AA team. But, they were challenged and good things come from that. I just loved watching Spencer play – rising to the pressure when up to bat, executing great plays from behind home plate, making clutch catches in the outfield – he’s a strong overall player.

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Of course the best part of baseball is the time with the team – goofing off in the dugout, celebrating birthdays, and yet another lunch at Bdubs.

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Some of the fields we traveled to were really nice turf fields….and some were not. ha!

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The boys didn’t take home any tournament rings this year. They got runner up in the OTM summer league behind the AAA Spartan team. Again, it wasn’t a winning season but that’s ok.

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I just love to watch this kid play – his attitude and sportsmanship are top notch and he is a good, good kid.

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I am so proud of my Yard Goat! The season ended with one last big tourney – full recap to come!

Let’s go Goats!

Baseball

Last week we said goodbye to little league baseball. It started with Maxwell playing t-ball in 2016 all the way up to this year with Spencer on the Yard Goats – that’s a lot of little league! Yes, there’s still more baseball to play next year, but it won’t quite be the same. What fun memories we’ve made over the past 9 years!

The Yard Goats were together again this year and played a few tournaments in the fall…

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When you’re playing both football and baseball, you look this tired many nights! ha!

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By the time February came around the Goats were in full practice swing! and had a fun Super Bowl party too!

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The Goats were ready for the spring season! More baseball tomorrow!

Tennis

Just a few tennis pics from pre and post surgery! My knee is healing and getting there – not 100% yet but it just takes time. It’s feeling good enough to play and that’s all I care about! I made it through the spring soft court and USTA season with no issue so I’ll take it. Of course, I’m still playing lots of cardio tennis…

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Of course I can’t leave out these tennis cardio princesses!

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We had the spring round robin in May that was fun…

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and we celebrated Amanda’s birthday with a party-o! The best!

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On the tennis court with friends is my favorite place to be!

Golf

Maxwell has been playing a ton of golf this summer. He’s taken several lessons and goes out with his friends to play 9 as often as possible. I love it – but I love it even more when he convinces his brother to go play with him…

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Last week Maxwell even convinced me to go watch him play – meaning he wanted me to drive him around in the cart! ha! I was happy to do it and even convinced Spencer to ride along. Spencer didn’t want to play which was fine with me. We had the best time heckling – I mean cheering on – Maxwell at each hole! “Put that down as a bogey!”

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I love these boys so much and as so proud of the awesome kids they are.

Soccer

Samantha played soccer again this spring on team Spirit coached by Clay and Seton – same team she’s been on since kindergarten! This season we lost a player or two but picked up several others that were great additions – and mostly all friends of Samantha’s so that was fun! The season starts early spring and they had some cold practices…

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Unfortunately at the second game of the season, Samantha hurt her foot and ended up in a boot for two weeks and missed a game.

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More unfortunately, it rained and rained and rained. I think they ended up on only getting to play 4 of their regular season games because of the weather. It kept raining and they just ran out of time to make up the games! They did play in the end of the season May Madness tourney out at the Hoover Met. They gave it their all but were playing against Academy teams that were just better. I got some great pictures though!

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At the end of the season, several of the girls decided to go to the Academy tryouts and decided to join the team, including Samantha.

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That means the end of our awesome rec team that has been together for 5 years – bittersweet but I’m so thankful to her coaches for all the years of effort they put into the girls. They really prepared them for Academy and, most importantly, made them love soccer!

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On to new soccer adventures. Long live the Spirit / Dream Team / Narwhals / Glitter Unicorns / Sparkle Unicorn Sprinkle Marshmallow Blueberries / Blueberry Cupcake Sparkly Princess Unicorns!