{"id":363,"date":"2008-11-26T21:39:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-11-26T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:42:13","slug":"softball-baseball-and-a-loud-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/363","title":{"rendered":"Softball, baseball, and a loud house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e1e2ade64500000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Abbey&#8217;s softball team, after winning their last game last Friday night.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a 10-1 season, finishing in 1st place!\u00c2\u00a0 Can you tell it was COLD?\u00c2\u00a0 It was 45 degrees cold!\u00c2\u00a0 Those of you up north, go ahead and snicker.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e0000cc6d900000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lainey congratulates her sister&#8230;yes, I try to keep gloves and a hat on her.\u00c2\u00a0 She rips them right off.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e0ecb8c61b00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yea!!\u00c2\u00a0 I can go home!!\u00c2\u00a0 Uh&#8230;I mean&#8230;they won!!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e13dfd27d200000060O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Switching to baseball&#8230;the next afternoon, we headed to EJ&#8217;s championship baseball game.\u00c2\u00a0 As you can tell, they won, too!\u00c2\u00a0 They are the Rookie 10 champs.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e02929074000000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The score was 0-0 up until the 4th inning.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a guy at 2nd base.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, EJ came up to bat.\u00c2\u00a0 His bunt got it all started.\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e0f591079600000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That bunt scored 1 and the next time up to bat, he got a hit, scoring 2 more.\u00c2\u00a0 The final score was 9 to 3.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e008a4c67500000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That afternoon, our good friends Bob and Valerie Clade came to visit us.\u00c2\u00a0 They were on their way to the Orlando area for Thanksgiving&#8230;we get most of our visitors that way!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve known the Clade family for more than 12 years.\u00c2\u00a0 Their oldest, Zachary and our Abbey were babies together&#8230;awww!!\u00c2\u00a0 The 7 (our 4 and their 3) big kids are in the tree picture.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e0c3ea07f600000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Lainey trying to give Joshua a squeeze&#8230;this is the only pic of him I got, other than one when the little kids were <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">losing it<\/span> fussy.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh is younger than Lainey by 2 months, but is so much bigger!\u00c2\u00a0 Lucky kid looks just like Valerie.\u00c2\u00a0 No offense, Bob ;)\u00c2\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b8cf07b3127ccec5e18d90a6d700000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they looked thrilled?\u00c2\u00a0 We just had to get a new pic of them together&#8230;we still remember them toddling around as babies.\u00c2\u00a0 Boy, does time fly by or what.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic weekend, with the business of ball games\u00c2\u00a0to the &#8220;volume&#8221; of fun that 13 (most of them kids) can make.\u00c2\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Abbey&#8217;s softball team, after winning their last game last Friday night.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a 10-1 season, finishing in 1st place!\u00c2\u00a0 Can you tell it was COLD?\u00c2\u00a0 It was 45 degrees cold!\u00c2\u00a0 Those of you up north, go ahead and snicker.\u00c2\u00a0 Lainey congratulates her sister&#8230;yes, I try to keep gloves and a hat on 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