Proud Mommy moment

As you know (because I am sure I have mentioned it on here just a few times) my son is on the varsity baseball team for his high school. The team is composed of mostly juniors with a couple sophomores and one freshman....no seniors, which for those of you who know sports are aware this is not a good thing. But alas we headed into the 38th annual Easter tournament hosted by our high school this week....and since the team was 0-4 at this point I didn't have high hopes. I am happy to report that I was wrong.....the team took 3rd place out of the 10 teams that were there. In my opinion though...they tied for the championship. Here's the reason.....my son's team finished 4-1, the second place team finished 3-2 and the championship team finished 4-1. The way they worked this tournament doesn't make any sense to me....how can the 3rd place team have a better record than the 2nd place team? Go figure. But alas...we finished 3rd....Wahoooooooo!! Go Lancers!

During the presenting of the trophies they also select the top players from all the teams participating and name them to the All Tournament team. Guess who was named to the All Tourney team.....yep, MY SON! Double Wahooooo!!!! I was quite excited at this point. Of course all it means is that you get a t-shirt that says All Tourney but still....you had to be one of the top players to get that coveted T-shirt! So finally it was time for the 3 individual trophies....top pitcher, MVP (which we all know goes to someone on the championship team most of the time) and Top Hitter throughout the tournament. Well guess what.....are you ready....drum roll please....the Top Varsity Hitter for the tournament was MY SON! OMG! That is so freakin amazing! That means out of the 125 or so kids in the tournament my son was the number 1 hitter! I'm not sure what his batting average ended up being but I do know that in the tournament he hit 2 triples, 4 doubles and quite a few singles with at least 6 RBI's that I can remember. WAHOOOOOO....way to go Tony! And he is only a Junior! Well done son!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

So far I am enjoying Spring Break....only because I took the whole week off work! Yay! My son's team is playing in an Easter tournament and the games are during the day so I usually take some time off during this week to watch. I will also be dropping Ashley off at the airport in a couple of hours so she can head to San Diego to spend Spring break with her boyfriend. Other than that I plan on doing nothing! LOL. Actually I hope to motivate myself to at least work on some of my wedding pictures and finally get some framed....as well as my daughter's senior pics and graduation pics. I also hope to hang some pictures back up in my house....I took them down to paint and haven't hung them back up yet, and that was about a year ago!

In other news...I turned in my final application for the nursing program today. I am pretty discouraged too. I was the 364th person to turn mine in and there is still a month to go before the cut off. The admissions clerk told me that there were over 800 that applied last semester. 800!!! That's insane! Usually all the applicants apply to all 3 of the programs so I am guessing that there were about that many that applied to the other 2 as well. Each school only accepts about 25 students...and it is supposedly done by a lottery system. So I basically have about a 3% chance of getting in. Actually it's probably less than that because 2 out of 3 of the schools take almost 1/2 their class from previous applicants. I have heard the horror stories of it taking 3-4 years to finally get in but I was really hoping that was an urban legend.....looks like it was true! So it sure makes you wonder why we have such a huge nursing shortage here because it seems that there are plenty of willing students.....so where are all the schools for the students to go to?!

And finally.....for your viewing pleasure...more Brayden pics : )

Here are some of his One Month Old pictures.....with Kyrah, who is 2 1/2 now! Where does the time go?!
Before you panic....I didn't leave the baby laying like this with Papa Jim not paying any attention, it was only long enough to take the pictures.And his "do you mind, I'm trying to sleep" look.....
So....are you tired of Brayden pictures yet? : )

2 out of 3.....

So far I have submitted 2 out of the 3 nursing applications. I will submit the last one on Monday. Wahoooo! I won't hear anything for 6-8 weeks after the mid-April deadline...so around the end of May. I am kind of torn about whether or not I want to get accepted for the Fall 2008 semester. I definately want to hurry up and get the nursing program out of the way but then again if I waited until Spring 2009 it would give DH and I more time to get our finances in order before I lose my salary. I still applied though because it is very rare to get accepted on your first try and all the programs give preference to returning applicants. Anyways....keep your fingers crossed for me : )

In other news....my son is having a pretty good year so far for his baseball team. He has already almost hit the ball out of the park a couple of times and we are only 4 games into the season. However...not having any seniors on the varsity team is definately showing...the team is 0 & 4.

Brayden turned one month old on the 9th. I can't believe tomorrow he is going to be 5 weeks old already....where does the time go. Here are a few pics of him from when he was about 2-3 weeks old....I have some from the day he turned one month old but they are still in the camera and DH took that to work with him.





More pics coming soon.....

Just a little update....

Hey everyone! It has been awhile since I blogged so I thought I would just briefly post about what is going on in my busy-as-always life.

As you know my g-son was born on 2/9 and let me just tell you that he is the most adorable thing ever! I don't get to see him during the week so I go through major baby withdrawls....last week I called just to make sure he hadn't started walking already, it had been 4 days since I had seen him. I implemented Sunday Family dinner night so that I will at least get to see him once a week. DH will also get to spend some time with his daughter other than just their Wednesday night dinners. Brayden is 3 1/2 weeks old and at his last check up weighed 6 lbs 6 ozs. He is still so little! All I ever want to do is hold him so everyone says I am a baby hog : ) I still haven't decided on a name.....sorry, but 39 is just too young to be grandma. Ashley started referring to me as Nona (No, like the word), which is short for No name. LOL!

In other news it is baseball time! Wahoooo!!! My son is a junior in high school so he is on the varsity team. We don't expect them to have a very productive season this year because there aren't any seniors on the team, mainly juniors with a couple of sophmores and one freshman....but look out next year! Even though they haven't won a game yet (they just started) they are giving the other teams one hell of a battle! In last week's game my son got just a little cocky though.....he hit a deep fly ball and since he was so sure it was out of the park he just trotted around the bases, well it landed just inside the fence. He got a clean double out of it but had he actually been running he would have had at least a triple! Bet he won't do that again.

Ashley is doing well...she works and attends college full time. She originally was a history major but now she wants to double major...history and psychology. I hope she sticks with it!

I am currently filling out the applications for the 3 nursing programs that we have here in Sacramento. I will be sending them in within the next 2 weeks so keep your fingers crossed for me! It is a lottery to get it.....there are usually about 450 applicants and only 25-30 slots. I have heard mixed things about whether grades play a part in getting accepted....if they do I might have a good chance since I have a 4.0 GPA. I am kind of torn about whether I want to get accepted on my first try.....for the most part I do but then I think that my son will be starting his senior year in August and there are all those Senior expenses so losing my income would not be good. But DH and I are trying to get rid of as many expenses as we can in preparation for the loss of income........he bought a 2001 Mercedes E320 that he will be fixing up (it is a great benefit having a husband who can do auto body work!). It was wrecked but not that badly. He got it for $3k and figures it will cost another $2k or so to fix.....and if we choose to sell it we can probably get about $13-14k for it. Right now the plan is to sell my car so we can get rid of my car payments and I will drive the Mercedes for awhile.

Here is some good news......the other day I was looking for the patches my son received his freshman year for his participation in sports (I put them away for safekeeping and can't remember where). I didn't find the patches but I did find some of my video tapes that I thought had been stolen. I was sooooo unbelievably happy. I have the tape of my son's touchdown and my daughter's dance recitals. I wish I had all the tapes but there were quite a few that were in the camcorder case so they are long gone.....but at least I didn't lose everything!

Well I guess that's it. I will try to post more Brayden pics soon.