I have to apologize about my lack of posts lately, with the baseball games and everything life has been pretty busy.   On Mother's day it rained and Michael really, really wanted to take his scooter in to the dinosaur park.  So I told them the first time it was sunny we would head out there.  Tuesday was our next sunny day, so after AJ was done with school we headed to the dinosaur park.

 

It was such a great afternoon, the weather was perfect and we had the whole skate park to ourselves!!!  Which was really good for my sanity and also for the boys safety.

 

We spent quite a long time there, they had been begging me to go there with their scooters.

 

They were working on "tricks" during the afternoon.

 

After they were done with that they wanted some ice cream.  I actually think AJ saw somebody else there with ice cream and so he said he was done so they could get some.  Mommy is a sucker though sometimes.  :-)

 

They love playing with this water area.  There was a German boy who didn't speak any English but really loved playing with the boys!  He talked to them the whole time, on the skate park, here and the rest of the afternoon.  It is really cool to see that even if you don't understand verbally they still play well together.  The mom spoke a little bit of English so we chatted for a little while and exchanged numbers. 

 

On Saturday we had a really, really busy day.  We started out with two baseball games in the morning.  Michael's game was at 10:00 am, AJ's pictures at 10:15 and AJ's game and 11 am.  So I had to be in two places at once again, but it worked out well.

 

Michael playing third base, ready for the ball.

 

Michael had some great hits at his game.

 

running so fast his feet are off the ground

 

I couldn't help it, he is just so cute!

 

Then when Michael's game was over we were off to AJ's game.  He is also playing third base ready for the ball to come.  It is really amazing how much different the games are between Michael's and AJ's.  For Michael's team, there are no outs and it is a little slower paced.  AJ's team can actually get people out, but everybody still gets to bat for both teams. 

 

AJ hitting the ball - he did a great job!  He hit every time he was up!

 

Michael wanted to take some pictures at AJ's game and here is one of them that he took.  It was a little cold so AJ kept his coat on while waiting to bat.

 

Right after AJ's game we headed to the KMCC to meet with some great friend's that came over from Belgium.  It was so great to see them and chat, it has been way too long since we saw them.  It happened to be some police week, so they had some fun things outside the KMCC. 

 

 

The boys in the MRAP

 

The boys getting down and a better view of the MRAP

Kellee couldn't get a good serious photo of the boys, so she went with silly instead!  Gotta love those boys.

 

These two boys look so grown up, I just can't believe it.  After that we headed straight to a birthday party at Kinderspiel.  The boys had such a great time!!!  And they ran off some great energy!!  I also was able to have some good grown up conversation!  It was a win, win for everybody.

 

Today we went to the last Awanas meeting.   They had their awards ceremony.  It was neat to see all the accomplishments that so many kids had.

 

 

Michael up getting his award.

 

Here is the certificate that he received.

 

For Sparkys they went up when their name was called.  AJ finished one book and started his second book.  There are three books total for Sparkys and they are supposed to have three years to do it, but we didn't do it last year, so he is on track to get them all done in two. 

Here he is with his certificate and ribbon for completing the first book.  I am so proud of him!!  He really did such a great job and a lot of memorizing!!  I am really hoping they are going to want to do it again next year.

 

Michael being goofy - he cracks me up

 

The two boys with their certificates.  We have another busy week ahead of us and are going to Berlin for the four day weekend.  David is also getting back today from Scotland.  From the little I heard from him he has had a FANTASTIC time!!  Hopefully he will have some time to post pictures and write about his time this week.