1st Half of July

Well, we always love more Karly and Jo time as you never know what they will create.

This time it was Fourth of July cupcakes.

Not only did they look wonderful they tasted good, BONUS!

A Whole New Baseball World?

This baseball season opened Oma and Cole's eyes to another baseball world in our area.

Willamette Valley Select is not only a camp but they play on until the weather stops them.

Cole and Oma participated in the two week camp (Oma Coaching). On July 6 following the two weeks they participated in a Wood Bat tournament here in town with Oma Coaching Cole's team.

Select gives players a chance to play more ball, practice positions that they might not get a chance to during the regular season and hone their hitting skills. This tournament brings teams from all over the state and including the All-Star teams from our area.  Cole's team gave the All-Star "A" team their toughest game of the weekend which brought smiles from his whole team (it must have been the coaching).

Connie's 50th!

Around the 11th, six middle age women met up at Rachelle and Connie's house, loaded  things in an RV and headed to Reno to celebrate Connie's 50th birthday.

Jill, Connie, Rachelle, Tina, Di & Janis

The saying "What happens in Vegas", well that holds true for Reno too.

We walked a LOT, learned to play Craps, which most of us now enjoy, took in a show and visited Carson City for a day.

Jill and I were able to pay for part of our trip with this slot win!

Good memories and stories to never tell.

More Family Summer Fun

Another fire pit night at home.

We didn't light the pit up as much as I wanted to this summer but it's always fun when we did.

With all the fun sodas for sale I brought home a six pack of flavors.

Mixing the green apple and caramel tasted pretty good.

TaeKwonDo

Cole took a month off from "team" sports so he joined Jo at TaeKwonDo.

He had a good time and would have liked to continue but baseball started again as well as Football.

Shooting Range

July 19 Uncle Todd and Cousin Derian stopped by and grabbed Cole to do some target practice at a range.

Derian

Cole came home just pumped at the experience and more appreciative of shooting.

Todd stated that Cole's respect and safety of this sport is high and he would take him again.  Cole is ready...any day and looks forward to learning to hunt.