I was back in Iowa for 2 nights (4 baseball games and 1 softball game) this past week. Two summers ago, DD and I went up to watch my older nephew play 8th grade baseball. This time I wanted to see the younger one play 8th grade ball (Iowa plays school baseball and softball in the summer). It would have worked perfectly with the baseball schedule to go up 2 days prior to the guild shop hop and just meet up with the quilters in Winterset, but my nephew got "called up to the majors" so to speak. He was moved up to the freshman/JV teams. So, that schedule didn't work. So this trip allowed me to see 4 games in 2 nights and only take off one day of work and see both nephews play ball!
My guys are #24 (freshman in the fall), and #2 (junior in the fall). #2 was the catcher the first night and had an awesome JV game even though they lost. The varsity game was very exciting (rain delay) and they won, beating a really good team!
The second night, #24 was in left field and #2 started out pitching! It was so fun to see them both on the field at the same time. Both nights were cool and the second was windy.
Finally got them to pose for a photo!
The younger one just got his permit, so he chauffeured me around town during the day, except for the quilt shop, he stayed home to do this.............
My sister and I got pedicures and also did some looking around town. We found this..........
And made some plans for more elaborate wine bottle bird feeders. I came home with a stash of wine glasses from a flea market and some of my sister's bottle collection. The hubs had found an even cuter design in his Handy Man magazine, so we collected the supplies for him to make some.
No big trips planned for this week.........Wednesday was going to be a "stay home all day" day, but then realized there was a massage scheduled for the afternoon! So other than that, it was a "stay home" day.
Christi
