Calgon, take me away!

Owen’s baseball stuff is in Tom’s truck BECAUSE OF COURSE IT IS.

I don’t have enough time to go get his stuff and make it back to pick him up from strength training and then get to baseball camp.

Owen doesn’t want to go to baseball camp anyway because his arm hurts.

Oh, and he doesn’t want to go to baseball camp at all anymore because “he knows everything already” — forget that we spent $200 on it.

Tom isn’t answering his texts.

I checked Owen’s summer health class scores and they are not where they should be.

The housekeepers come tomorrow, and I just want to burn the house down.

And the new swipe keyboard I’m testing is a disaster.

Baseball morning!

We had an away game which means we’d be gone for like 4 hours so we took Olive to Anna’s so she could play with Honey. She always ends up in the front seat.

I haven’t posted much about baseball this fall season… Tom is coaching again. They’re about 50-50 for wins and lossses. Owen isn’t pitching but it still liking first base…and has been catching more!

It was a wee bit chilly. Katie even stayed in the car!

Olives first (and last) baseball game

I thought we’d try taking Olive to the baseball game so she didn’t have to stay cooped up—plus it was nice weather and Katie promised to take care of her.

Ha. Haha.

I mean overall she was good, but she went crazy if dogs came near her. And Katie quit about 45 minutes in. So this might be the heat time we take her…

Finally tuckered out right as the game was ending. Of course.

Olive came to baseball!

Katie desperately wanted to bring Olive to the baseball game…so we let her.

And then look who ended up being Olive’s bed for most of the game?

And I’m so bummed—look what I noticed!! Olive is losing her olive on her paw.

Remember this is what it used to look like:

And then since she was with us, we had to find an outdoor patio to eat lunch after baseball… She was such a good girl!

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Tom’s youth baseball coaching career is off to a great start—the Phillies are the Gurnee Youth Baseball Mustang Champions! It took two days and 9 innings but they did it!

What made the win even more exciting is that they beat the undefeated Cubs to win! (And the Cubs had actually slaughtered us in a previous game—something like 17-2.)

It was a nail biter for sure—they caught up and we were tied 12-12 which then pushed us into an extra inning! And after no scoring, another inning! And then in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, we scored—which meant the game was immediately over!

A special sidenote: Anna and family showed up again to cheer the team on!

Still waving hats from the baseline!

You won’t believe this championship game…

Our boys were killing it! They were on fire! We were ahead 12-9!

But it was getting dark and championship games are mandatory 7 innings (regular games are 5 innings or 2 hours) so they called it at 8pm and said we have to finish tomorrow night! WHAAAAAT?! Apparently they’ve never done that! If the commissioner would have just called it we would have been champions! (There’s more to this story but that’s the gist.) So we have to come back tomorrow night for two innings…

Katie burrito during some sprinkles.

Special best friend sidenote: Anna and family showed up to surprise us! So she was able to actually take a picture of me at baseball!