My summer has been BUSY!!!

This summer we brought home a new baby!!! Jasmine (pictured below) without a doubt completes our family. She is our first Chihuahua, and we love her to pieces.



Let me start by saying that I am s highly organized person, so much so that I drive my husband nuts. I had planned on Jasmine coming home Memorial Day weekend; that was perfect because my son’s baseball season ended the week before. That left me with time to get Jazzy home and adjusted to her new surroundings. Little did I know my scheduling was about to be swept under the rug!!! My son made the All-Star baseball team which meant we were going to be traveling very soon. Jasmine was in for a treat!!!

The first baseball tournament was a Warm-Up Tournament, Blaine (my son) and his team won the tournament undefeated. We expected them to do well, but never expected them to go undefeated. Next we were off to the District Tournament (still local to us), and they placed second in this tournament. Due to their accomplishments, they were invited to compete in the Alabama State Tournament four hours away. Jasmine traveled with us to this tournament as our team mascot. She stole the hearts of many on that trip. I have more faith in my child than you can imagine, but I never expected to be going further than the State Tournament……I was wrong! The children we have all grown to love did the unthinkable and placed 1st. This meant that we would have to fundraise until we could fundraise no more. By this point we had already been fundraising for the prior tournaments, but these children were headed to Manassas, VA (15 hours away) to compete in the South East Regional Tournament – there was a lot of expense involved. For them this tournament was equivalent to the World Series. This was the farthest this age group could go. It was BIG TIME!!!

Through hours upon hours of fundraising and community support we were able to make this once in a lifetime opportunity happen for our children. Did they win it all? No, but they placed 3rd and I was so proud of how well our children did. The outcome of the tournament didn’t matter to us because up until that point we had spent all of our time creating bonds/friendships that will last a lifetime!!!

I do however love to tell people that my son is a 2010 Alabama State Champion!!!


My son: second row, first child. My husband: tallest coach, back middle.

Once all of that transpired we only had two weeks of summer left. We spent that time together as a family; the way things are meant to be!!!

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