Loss...

Whenever someone looses someone close to them, I find it really hard to find words to help make them feel better. Sometimes it seems as if there is nothing that can be said to make the situation better. This past week my Best Friend Liz Shaver lost her brother-in-law Naki Maile. He was 32 years old and died suddenly. He leaves behind his wonderful wife Abby and 6 beautiful girls, ages 1-9. As you can imagine Abby as well as the girls will have a strong battle ahead in many different ways. An account has been set up for them during this tough time. It would be really great if you can donate anything at all to help this amazing family out. Please keep all of them in your prayers as they deal with this difficult time. Here are links to their family blog and website where you can donate. Thank you :)

http://www.nakisgirls.com/

http://sixmailechix.blogspot.com/

Procrastination

I have like a billion and one blogs to post but you know me, I PROCRASTINATE in life on a daily basis. You would think since I'm a stay at home wife at the moment, I could find time to post in my very very busy schedule (note the sarcasm...) but I just cant yet! Add it to the list that's a million miles long of things to do before my trip. I'm going to try my darnedest to post this weekend. Miss you all and sorry if I haven't commented your posts!

So...

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE FOR HALLOWEEN? AND WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?

Im going to Disneyland and I think Im going to be a pirate!! Arrrrr!!

CHECK, CHECK, CHECK HER OUT...

CHECK THAT FUNKY PITCHER OUT!!

IS SHE HIGH OR IS SHE LOW...

IS SHE FAST OR IS SHE SLOW...

I heard that cheer along with like 50 other ones about 20 billion times over this past weekend. Lexus plays softball on a competitive traveling league here in Roseville. I always played soccer and volleyball so I didn't know a darn thing about softball. I have been to one other tournament but during the one this past weekend, I actually brought my camera!! So this post is dedicated to you miss Lexi Lou!!

We had to go to Yuba City for a two day tournament. Which consisted of 3 games on Saturday then 2 on Sunday. I could go into the logistics of how seeding works and all that stuff but its confusing lol!! This is how the weekend went:

SATURDAY:

Our weekend started bright and early, her first game was at 9:30 which meant we had to be there at 8:30 and it was about an hour away so we had to leave at 7! I haven't been up that early in sooo long but it was well worth it!! I would tell you what happened during each game, but I honestly don't remember!! Our second game was at 12:30 and our last game was at 3pm. Here's how it went:

Game 1: WON!!

Game 2: lost :(

Game 3: WON!!

Ill tell you what happened Sunday later in the post but here's some pics to hold you over!

This is the only picture of us all weekend! Once we got around her team, she was WAY to cool to talk to me :)

Walking to the field for her first game Saturday!

I just liked this pic, shes so cute!

Warming up with a little run...

There's a lot of pictures I left out! So these next ones are from both Saturday and Sunday. Lexus does great but she gets a little nervous sometimes when its her turn to bat.

This is probably the best pic I took the whole weekend! Her form is great!

Trying to steal a base to make it to the home plate.

So during the summer and all previous season she played in the outfield. Not to long ago, her coaches decided to move her to 3rd base and she has been doing great! She made a couple small mistakes this weekend, but all the girls did at one point or another. Lexus also helped her team do very well!!

Down and ready for the pitch

Im not sure if she caught a ball her during the game or during the practice time before the inning starts.

Trying to steal another base...

In between games, the girls have lots of down time. And on Sunday their first game was at 8am and the Championship, yes I said CHAMPIONSHIP game wasn't until 12:30 and they were bored out of their minds! Talk about trying to get 14 10-11 year olds entertained for 3.5 hours without them over working themselves!

Here they are playing truth or dare, very funny to listen to lol

Practicing their chants and trying to keep themselves busy for 45 more minutes until the championship game!

As I said previous, they made it to the championship game. And let me tell you, they did awesome!! We didn't end up winning but they didn't stop without giving the other team a great fight. The game was tied at the bottom of the 7th so they had to go into over time. They played amazingly well and Lexus was in the whole game! Congrats girlies!!

Team huddle before the final game.

At the coin toss, they all wanted to go as a team

Lexus playing 3rd base.

As you notice, most of their hats are upside down and who would have thought this was important?!?! This is know as "RALLY CAPS" the were all so nervous at the end of the game

Waiting for their 2nd place medals and trophy

Lucy with her medal

The wonderful girls of the Roseville Thunder

Lex with the trophy

CONGRATS GIRLS FOR TAKING SECOND PLACE AND GOOD LUCK AT THE NEXT TOURNAMENT!!

This will be quick I promise!

This was way too funny not to share. One of the girls has a brother named Chase and he is pictured below. Hes 13 I want to say and for the most part all of those girls are in LOVE with him! He was only there on Saturday and any down time the girls had, they were all following or watching him. Its so funny to watch because I remember being just like that :)

The infamous Chase

All of the girls carefully watching him practice baseball stuff with his dad

Still watching again :)

I love softball and I cant wait for the next tournament in 2 weeks!!

BLINK 182...Oh how I love you

Better late than never I guess! So this past Saturday I went with my great friend Kaitlyn to see Blink 182. A little back ground info on my love for them. I first fell in love in 1999 when their single "All The Small Things" was released. I have been OBSESSED ever since! My Best Friend Sabrina and I have spent pointless hours learning every single song and seeing them several times while they were on tour in my younger days. Well they broke my heart when the band went there separate ways in 2005. I always longed for the day they would get back together and eventually my wish came true. This past February they announced they were getting back together and going on tour. your could say I was beyond STOKED!!!

I would pretty much say I am a true fan and know almost all the music from every album they have released which is 6 including one of a recorded show they did. So Kaitlyn was nice enough to buy tickets for us when they went on sale. Along with Blink, Taking Back Sunday and Weezer played. I didn't know much about Taking Back Sunday but they were good. I was so excited to see Weezer also and they were amazing to say the least. So here's some pictures, enjoy! And Eric, I wish you could have been there, you really would have had a lot of fun!!

Here is my mirror pic with my new Barbie shirt and my sunglasses...don't judge me!!

Me with our tickets to the show!

Me and Kaitlyn in the car, sitting in traffic, decided to take a few pictures

We got to the venue about an hour and a half early and there was a line all the way to the road which is where I was at!

Us in our seats.

We had lawn seats at first but Kaitlyn offered to pay for us to get better seats. When we first bought the tickets, I didn't want to spend the almost $80 to get floor seats so we settled for lawn. Well on the day of the show, they were selling tickets for only $10 to have real seats and Kaitlyn jumped right on that!

I just like this pictures, and my new bow of course bought to wear to the show :)

First band up was Taking Back Sunday. They played well and I enjoyed their music

Me waiting in between sets...

Yay for WEEZER!! I have been a fan for a very very long time and I'm so glad I got to see them play. They were AMAZING!!

Another pic of the band playing

This was all the cell phones (they don't use lighters these days) during one of their slower songs

These were our staged excited faces waiting for Blink to come on

Mark Hoppus: Hes always been my crush and maybe one day Ill meet him. He looks exactly the same as the last time I saw him.

Tom DeLong: He was always Sabrina's favorite

Travis Barker...GREAT DRUMMER!!!

A pic of them playing!!

This might be a little long but if you look closely or click on the pic to make it bigger, that is actually Travis playing drums at an angle. When they started their encore, Travis was playing the drums, then suddenly the platform he was on slowly started moving out towards the crowd and lifting at the same time. He probably went about a good 15 to 20 feet up and the platform flipped him to the side and he was playing at an angle where his body was parallel to the ground while spinning in a circle. I don't even know if that was a good mental picture or not but it was so great I was speechless!!

These were our sad faces after the show was over.

I must say how happy I was being there. It brought back so many great memories from when I was much younger and didn't have a care in the world. All of the songs they played brought out some sort of memory and it was fantastic. I wish Eric could have been there to share it with me. But it was the happiest Ive been since hes been gone. I now want all of their Cd's and plan to listen to them over and over again!!

Here's my souvenirs from the show

This shirt is for Eric! Hope you like it babe!!!

I was sad when the show was over but I'm so glad they are back together and working on another album. Hopefully they will go on tour again so I can watch them play. They will forever be my favorite band of all time, regardless of how cheesy that sounds.

I LOVE BLINK 182!!!

A great give away!!

So Im learning in this world of blogging that people do give aways and I love the idea! One of my other blogging friends is having a give away and its great!! Follow the link and there are 3 ways to get your name entered. Good luck :)

http://amazinamie.blogspot.com/

Someone stole your what?!?! AND a mini Eric update

Eric will probably kill me for posting this story but I just couldn't help myself! So Eric called me on Monday while we were driving back from Orange County. We were talking about care packages and this is how the conversation went:

ME: "So has anyone asked you for anything I sent you?"

Eric: "No"

(paused for a couple seconds)

"But someone stole my Twinkies"

ME: "What?"

Eric: "Yea, someone stole my Twinkies"

ME: "But you don't even like Twinkies and I didn't send you any."

Eric: "I know but Joel sent me some. And the other day I was sitting on my cot, pulled out my box of Twinkies, opened one and took a bite. Then I got up, came back and they were GONE!!!"

ME: "Seriously?!?"

Eric:"Yup, even the half eaten one..."

ME: quietly laughing, not sure what to say

So there you have it! There is a Twinkie bandit in Eric's tent :) I love you boo and couldn't help but share this story! I had a good laugh and continue to tell everyone who will listen to it. I also included some new pictures Eric emailed me

Some of the village families

Eric with an interpreter not paying attention

Eric with a copy of the newspaper from his home town of Chetopa, Kansas, Population 500. They will be posting this in the newspaper soon :)

Eric sharing his paper with an Afghan Soldier

That's pretty much all that's going on besides my non-stop reading! I love and miss you Eric