Batter Up!

It Spring time and the kids are all signed up to play baseball!  It has been so much fun to go to my grand kids ball games!  Damon plays for the Pirates.  His Grand Grandma Price and I attended his first game together.  He is one of the smallest kids on the team but OH MY - this kid has heart and gives his all to be a part of this team!

Damon up to bat, this was ball one, but he 

slammed the next pitch and got on base! 

 His second game he was put in as catcher - something 

he had never tried before but check out that form!

Tabitha plays on a team a little older than Damon's.  There are two girls on her team!  You go Tabitha!  Show them how we girls can play!  She is a girly girl but when she needs to be she can be rough and tumble!  We had such fun walking between the two games because both kids played the same night at the same time.  And the weather was BEAUTIFUL!

Tabitha takes a swing!

I took these pictures through the chain link fence.  I had to set my camera between the links to hopefully get a good shot.  Pretty good huh!  Anyway, Mom and I are sure having fun cheering from the sideline seats.

Stay Strong!

YES!  YES!  YES!

Oh My!

I have had a wild and crazy week at work.  My supervisor has been on vacation so I have been here trying to keep "the home fires burning", the stress level low and keep everything in it's place.

I was doing pretty good.  In my line of work (Escrow) we use a lot of paper and I make several copies during the day.  This is all good because I am very organized and my focus is determined.

Everyone knows that I DO NOT like spiders AT ALL.  I don't care if they are tiny or huge - a spider is a spider!  Well - I took a stack of papers to the copy machine to do my copying, I open the lid to start my copies and right in the middle of the glass is one of those fuzzy black jumping spiders.  Yup!  I let out a screech, dropped the lid and stepped away from the machine - trembling.  I figured the drop of the lid would smash the monster - but NOOOooooo!  I open the lid and he scurries to the back of the machine.  Stress level has gone from 0 to a 3.

I wait a few minutes - take a few deep breaths and open the lid again - no spider in site so I hurry and make my copies needed and dash away from the danger zone! Stress level is now a 5!

I have NOT forgotten that the monster is still SOMEWHERE!  And every time I walk out to the copy room I look on the floor, on the stamps, on the pens, on the handle to the copy machine before I lift the lid and then after I make the copies I timidly look in the tray to grab my papers before the fuzzy thing crawls out to scare the bajeebies out of me - AGAIN.  And it did!  Stress level is now at 9 1/2.  But this time I had the can of canned air in my hand ready to defend myself!  I filled that fuzzy monster with cold canned air - no where to be seen again.  So I went from having an A-OK day, just minding my own business, getting my work done to a crazed maniac carrying canned air around to fight off the monsters!

And this is what I looked like by the end of the day!

Fast forward to the next morning - mind you I am still alone, new day, no memory of the day before fighting off yucky crawly scary things - and there it is - sitting on top of the fax machine - my weapon of choice NOT within grabbing range - so I take a file folder - make sure it is big enough that I do not have to accidentally touch this black, fuzzy scary monster with any part of my hand and I start beating the fax machine.  When I stop, the monster is dead, the file folder is obliterated, my heart is beating ferociously but I am triumphant!  I am the conqueror!