Baseball time!

Mitchell's baseball season is well under way and I am just getting around to posting some pictures! He is playing in the majors this year (he was thrilled to make that league after trying out) and plays for the Yankees... boy, we never thought that we would be sitting in the stands cheering for the Yankees! As you can see, Amelia passes the time calling her friends with our cell phones as well as playing with other bored sisters at the ball field. Mitchell is having a great time playing even though his team doesn't have a winning record. One thing about Mitchell is that he has fun doing just about anything, win or lose... we should all play with that attitude! One parent recently asked Dave at a game "Does Mitchell smile in his sleep, too?". It's great to watch Mitchell smile his way through life!

High School Musical

This weekend Oconee Youth Playhouse (where Amelia takes dance and musical theatre) put on the stage version of "High School Musical". When audition information came out weeks ago, there were many dissappointed children because only 8th grade and up could audition! So OYP came up with a way to include those many younger kids in the production. Amelia got to go to a workshop yesterday morning with the lead actors from the play and learn the routine to "We're All In This Together". They then performed their number in a pre-show... they were thrilled to be a part of the production! Amelia did super and had a blast the whole time. Who knows... we may see her on Broadway someday!

Spring Break!

Spring Break, 2008 was lots of fun for all of us! We stayed in town for the first few days and relaxed, played two rounds of golf with Mitchell and my Daddy (and yes, Mitchell did beat me on the first round!), and got ready for our trip. On Tuesday we left for Gatlinburg, TN with our good friends Michael, Lydia, Madeline and Candler. We stayed in a really fun three bedroom condo that had a cool indoor water park! This was perfect especially since the weather didn't always cooperate with us! We had a blast doing several activities in Gatlinburg... go carts, water slides, chair lifts to amazing views, the Upside Down House (lots of fun things to do in there!), laser tag, the Comedy Barn... and of course some shopping for me and Lydia! And who can forget all of the great food (great restaurants at night and great junk food during the day such as foot long corn dogs and funnel cakes!)... and thanks to Michael we had Starbucks every morning!! We were also lucky that Dave was able to join us on Wednesday for the rest of the vacation (he doesn't usually get to spend much of Spring break with us)! We were all able to have some great quality family time... and great friend time, also! Only seven more weeks until summer vacation!