TN State softball tournament

Saturday & Sunday we played in the state tournament and finished 2nd!!!  We were so proud of our girls, they did an awesome job!  Although they made us nervous, they lost the first game of the tourney which put them in the losers bracket and we all know what that means.....playing back to back, fighting their way back to the the top.  And they did just that, in true Shelbyville fashion,  our girls played their little hearts out all the way to the Championship game!  However they just couldn't get passed a newly formed team that was put together just to come to the tournament!!  So therefore, Sliders...you will always be number 1 in our hearts!!!

Now that tournament ball is over we will be gearing up for fall ball.  Kaylee moves up to kid pitch, and as she said, "They don't want you to hit the ball Momma like in coach pitch!"  Thats right baby girl, we have no idea what the future holds for you in this sport but whatever... we will support you just as we always have.  We know you LOVE the game and as you tell us in the back yard when we say isn't that enough pitching or aren't you ready to go in, "Practice makes perfect!!"

We will have one more day of celebration with the Sliders in a few weeks when we all load up and head to Holiday World for a fun filled weekend!!  We will sure miss our Slider's family, as it has been a great summer!!!!

July 4th weekend

We got our weekend started off right Friday afternoon.  We loaded up and took a road trip to Chattanooga for.....guess what......SOFTBALL!!!  We had two games Friday night and won them both.  After leaving the fields we headed to Sticky Fingers for some yummy BBQ!  Some of us went to the one downtown while others went to the one right next to the hotel!!  hahaha.....that was hilarious, just a simple lack of communication thats all!  Either way we had a blast, good food and great friends, it just dosen't get any better than that!  We headed back to the hotel ummmm, I mean motel and got ready for bed. Got up Saturday morning headed back to the ball field and won every game that we played up to the championship. Unfortunately, we couldn't pull out the last game and took 2nd.  We were st
ill proud of our girls, I think there was 8 or 9 teams there in our division.

Saturday afternoon we headed home, actually to Nana's to get our KB, wow we missed her!  Thanks to Nana & Papaw for keeping her for us...you two are the best!  Kaylee slpet all the way home and we all crashed as soon as we got home!

Sunday morning we slept in and then just hung out around the house for a little while.  We went to Nana's later in the afternoon for a cookout and some swimming.

Happy July 4th, 2010!

Girls trip to Chattanooga

This morning two of my very dear friends, myself and our kiddos loaded up and headed to Chattanooga for the day!  We had the best time, our girls are such good friends.  They all three went to the same preschool and now they are all in different schools so they don't get to spend much time together.  So what a better way than to just get away for the day!  Our first stop was at Sticky Fingers for an early lunch.  Let me just say if you like bar-b-que and have never tried Sticky Fingers you must try it!!  So yummmyyyyy....

After lunch we headed over to the big water fountain so the kids could play for awhile!!

iT is a huge fountain in the middle of a beautiful park that lots of folks to go just to get wet!!!

Cool picture Kayden!!

After awhile at the fountain we took a strole through the park to find some yummy shaved ice!!!

To end the day the kids rode this huge carousel several times!!  We didn't have to spend much money at all on our day trip but the memories that our girls are making will last a lifetime!!!  Thanks Amy & Wendy, we can't wait to do it again next year!!

Rec league awards

As I have mentioned before Rec league softball is over, really I can't believe it, it went by so fast!  I am glad to be home more during the week but then again I will miss it.  But fall ball is right around the corner! Kaylee had some new coaches this year and we were very pleased with them, she always does better when she has some hard coaches!!!  This will be the last year for her to play coach pitch she will start kid pitch in the fall.  I hope she likes that as much as she has loved coach pitch!  Our baby is growing up too fast!!!

Bemis took 3rd place out of about 9 or 10 teams!

Kaylee and her buddy Kate!

Sliders weekend

As usual we had another weekend of softball! We were in Murfreesboro and this weekend was a repeat of last weekend, our girls took 1st place again!!  We are so proud of all of them!  Here are a few pictures of the championship game!

Kaylee hits the ball!

She rounds second base!

And she comes home sucking wind!!!

The Sliders have done it again!!

They have won another 1st place trophy!

Kaytlee gets her trophy.

Here they are, Shelbyville Sliders!

This is the sweetest bunch of girls ever and they all have improved so much and just have been a joy to cheer for and watch weekend after weekend!!!

These two are sure excited about something....could it be that they were about to head to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate their repeat 1st place weekend!!!

I accidentally left the camera in the car while we were at CEC

but here are a few of the girls on the way back home!!

Congrats girls you make us so proud!!!

Downtime?

I have been so excited this week because we are done with Rec league ball and we will be home 4 out of 5 nights this week.  Travel ball is still going strong but that is only on Wednesday's and then of course the weekends.  I have been so excited to cook and get my house picked up and go to bed early.  Somehow things never go the way I plan.  As I am cooking dinner, I turn around just in time to find this.......

You guessed it, a whole bag of Fruity Pebbles!!!  Who is the culprit you ask???

Well if I were a betting person I would put my money on this little mess.  I mean seriously KB cover up your evidence, at least!! 

So see how my down time turned into more than I had planned???  And while we are talking about dinner and all tonight, let me just tell you about that....I had Kris grill steak and chicken outside while I fixed fresh fried okra, mashed potatoes and rolls {in between cleaning up the fruity pebble mess}.  I had everything on the table and Kris was bringing the meat in and guess what happened.....ahhh don't even try you will never get it right.......Kris dropped the whole platter of meat, shattering the platter and meat fling everywhere!!!  What in the world.......there was no picking it up and brushing it off.  People..... I'm talking about grilled perfectly and smelling ohhhh so good chicken & steak covered in glass.  Really.... now what... throw it in the trash and put some hotdogs on!  hahahaha, that is all I could really do was laugh after we got the second mess of the night cleaned up!!!  Dear me, I will never plan on a smooth, easy and relaxing evening again!!!  

Fathers Day weekend

We had a really nice but very busy weekend.  Friday night my stepbrother and his family came in and we grilled out and and just visited until late in the evening.  Saturday morning we got up and got ready for some Shelbyville Sliders softball.  Our tournament was here in town and our girls placed FIRST....whooohoooo!  We love some weekend softball!!
 

After the tournament we headed back over to Mom's to hang out with the family, grilled some steaks and chicken and then went swimming.  Again we stayed entirely too late but we only get to see them maybe three times a year if that.  We love it when they come in and can not wait for them to come back!!

Sunday we went and picked up Kaylee from Nana's but before we left the girls gave Kris his gift.

He had been wanting an iPod now that they have the radio on them.  I think he was super excited!

 We then headed to Murfreesboro to meet MeMe and Tom.  Kris choose to eat at Toot's and it was SOOOOO good, especially the fried pickles!  Yummy!

Of course we tried to get some good pictures but you know how that goes....

And it just goes from bad to worse......hahahahaha!!!

...and then it just wouldn't be true Kara Brooke fashion without getting in trouble and laying down to cry!!! 

Thank goodness the fried pickles came, that kept her busy for a little bit!

After the tummies got full at Toot's we had to run over to the Avenue for a short little visit and then back to Nana's to spend the rest of the afternoon with them!  

It was a very busy but awesome weekend.

Hope you all had a great Father's Day weekend too!