T-Ball Fun Day!

Today was the last day of T-Ball for the Iron Birds (Jake's team). There wasn't a game but they had what was called "T-Ball Fun Day!" The league had 4 stations set up for the teams and each team had a different time slot. Daniel had asked our team to get there 20 minutes before our scheduled time so we could take a team picture with everyone there (we were out of town for a wedding when the team picture was taken...and we didn't have 2 of our players on our team yet so it wasn't really a complete picture!). Almost everyone showed up today!! We only had one missing player (might've been our best turn out all season!).  Anyways, they had some fun with posing for the pictures....

I think this one was "make a mean face."

 

This one was supposed to be smiles.

This one was showing off their muscles (obviously).

and this one they said "everyone do what Jaren's doing!" (Jaren would be the kid on the far left with his arms crossed.) Clearly there was something exciting happening off to the side that they were all interested in!

This one's for Coach Mike!

and of course, the head coach of the Iron Birds, Coach Dad...or Coach Dan. whichever!

I should've gotten a picture of all 3 coaches together. We were lucky to have Daniel, Coach Mike, and Coach Jacob on our team! 3 very devoted guys!

The kids participated in a hitting and throwing competition which they all seemed to enjoy and then they got to play on a water slide!!!

Out of the 9 kids on our team, 6 were very excited about going down the slide. One other went down one time... Jacob watched the kids going down and decided that was for the birds!! I did all I could do to convince him to just go down the slide one time but he wanted nothing to do with it. Somehow Jen was able to convince one of her boys who had been down the slide I think twice and didn't want to do it anymore to go down it with Jacob. We were yelling "hold his hand!!! Don't go down the slide without him!" And sure enough he did! I'm pretty sure if he hadn't grabbed onto Jake that Jacob would've ended up going back down the steps....what else are friends for than to pull you down a water slide?

We told Jacob to hold his nose too but he clearly didn't want to.

I'm pretty sure Jacob was thinking "I can't believe you just pulled me down that thing! What the heck were you thinking?!?!"

yep, Daniel snuck into my picture. yep, Zach has gum. Nope, I had nothing to do with giving it to him.

another station. The kids had to field the ball, throw it to one of the coaches and then the coach that got the ball was supposed to throw it to the unlucky coach standing by the base--they were attempting to get the kids to slide into the base while the coach was trying to get the kid out. After they finished they went over to this little face (or hand) painting station. For some reason Daniel thought he needed to sort of give Zach a huge push on it.

Jacob with his spider painting on his hand.

Zach had a frog...that was almost entirely wiped out when Daniel swooshed him on the water thing.

Jacob and Andrew showing off their hand paintings.

my very upset Tater Tot. The ball bounced up and hit him...not hard at all; I'm pretty sure it just scared him.

Pizza time!!!!! Daniel had the awesome idea to bring watermelon, grapes, and oranges for the team too. Everyone seemed to enjoy it all!

YUM!

Jacob with Coach Dad and his trophy!

One last time....1 -- 2 -- 3......

IRON BIRDS!!!!!

We had such a great group of kids on our team. They all had such fun personalities and it was a fun  first season for Daniel to coach. We met some great new friends!

After we left the field a few of us headed over to a local pizza shop for more food. (The league only provided pizza for the players and though you could buy slices we had talked about going to the pizza shop earlier in the week and thought it'd be fun!)

What a great day!!!

T-Ball was our entire morning.. and it was close to 2 when we finally got started doing anything on the upstairs. However, we got A LOT done!! Everything except the boys bunk beds and our bed got moved into the 2 small spaces not being carpeted. (The beds will have to come downstairs because we are out of room up there!) We got about half of the carpet ripped up and our room completely drywalled with a coat of mud on it (well, except for where the wall and ceiling meet). Daniel even made time to take the boys on a nice bike ride while I pulled weeds from our much overgrown flower beds. I'd say we got a heck of a lot accomplished!

Things I didn't think I'd do at 9 1/2 months pregnant.....

-rip up icky, yucky, gross carpet and carpet pad.

-pull up a gazillion staples out of the floor from the current carpet pad as well as from what appeared to be red shag carpet (just little strings left!)

-assist in hanging drywall

-do the entire first coat of mud myself on my bedroom walls

-weed flower beds

-be awake at 2am writing this blog!!!

On that note....I'm going to bed!

And I guess since it's technically Father's day already I should say Happy Father's Day to my wonderful daddy who helped shape me into the person I am today!! And Happy Father's day to my wonderful husband who does so much for our family! And Happy Father's Day to my Grandpa Zukowski or as the boys call him "Jeep" as well as to my Grandpa Gibson who is keeping an eye on us from up above. And I wouldn't have my wonderful husband without my wonderful father-in-law so Happy Father's Day to him too! I love all of you so very much and am so thankful you are all a part of my life! I wish we could see you all to celebrate but seeing as how Emily's arrival is only 10 days away, a 4 hour car trip is not happening!