What do you think?  Does the boy have a chance to NOT be a Cincinnati Reds fan?  In all fairness, we’ve owned the outfit on the left for 15 years and even though all of our girls have worn it, it hasn’t yet produced a Reds fan!  The outfit on the right is new, though, bought for our son by my dad at preseason baseball training camp in Arizona.  That has to carry some kind of magic, don’t you think?

 

Even if our daughters aren’t Reds fans, they do play some pretty good softball! This is Sarah and Megan’s softball team this year – the Shockers!  They had their last games this week . . . and lost all of them.  BUT that must have been because Sarah wasn’t there!  Megan can’t be expected to carry the whole team herself, now can she?  I’m just joking, of course.  They had a lot of good players on their team and had a great time playing together.  I had a great time watching them pitch and hit and steal bases and catch balls.  What a great thing to do on summer evenings!

 

Mariah had her last games of regular league play this week, too, but her team came in first in her league!  Woot!  So, they will play in tournament this coming week.  I’ll get you pictures then.

 

Sarah wasn’t at softball games because she and Savannah left me ALL WEEK LONG!  They went to church Young Women camp.  I would say that the house was quieter with two less souls, except that the crying of the two babies for whom they usually care was louder, so I think it all balances out. . . Anyhoo, we missed them heaps, but they had a fabulous time!

Sarah looks like she just got back from Hawaii due to Hawaiian day.  As for Savannah, when Megan saw her she said, “Savannah, you’re wearing something in your hair and your nails are painted!  What did they DO to you?”  Savannah replied in the same aggrieved tone, “They curled my hair!!”  Yeah, you gotta watch out for those girls at girls’ camp!  So, they stayed up late and went on hikes and did the challenge course and sang songs and did their certification and went canoeing and grew spiritually and emotionally and made memories that will last a lifetime!

 

Their little sisters did miss them, but they didn’t sit around moping, exactly.

Especially not when there is a summer rainstorm in which to play!

 

Calianne, not to be outdone by Cheyenne, lost TWO teeth this week!

 

Cheyenne overcame her fear and finally learned to ride a bike!  Look at her go!

 

And to celebrate the girls getting back from camp, we shot off fireworks!  Wasn’t that the reason?  Oh, maybe it was the Fourth of July!  I can’t believe it is here already!

We also almost exploded our neighbor’s son . . .

 

He came through unscathed.  It was sure fun to watch, though!  Hee, hee.  :)