Girls Softball in Grantsville

Well I have finally made it to some of Maddie's softball games and have some pictures. Grantsville softball seems to get great support out here. There are twice as many softball teams in Maddies age groups as there are in little league baseball, which is awesome and it seems to pay off. The high school softball team has been doing quite well since we moved out here.

Maddie seems to really like playing softball so far and they have won there first 2 games and tied in her 3rd game. Yes they keep score, play 3 outs, and play by all the other normal softball rules. It is so fun to watch them, there are tiny little girls out there playing and all dressed up in there uniforms.

Maddie after she hit one up the middle and then the ball got by the first baseman.

Maddie's hit up the middle!!!

Spring Break and "BALL"

Last week was spring break for our kids, they were out of school for a week. They were plenty busy with softball and baseball going on every night for one of them. Laurie is helping coach Maddie softball team and I am helping coach Braydens Outlaw team and the coach of his city league team. Yes that's right Maddie got talked into playing softball by Laurie's boss Chad. He told her he would buy her and Oreo shake if she would sign up for softball, and she took the deal. So they have been having practices twice a week for a couple of weeks now, and after the first practice she did not want it to end. Maddie was suppose to have games this week but with this lovely Utah weather they have been rained/snowed out.
Brayden played in another baseball tournament with his TC Outlaw team in Spanish Fork. The boys played pretty well and made it into the semi final game of that tournament before being eliminated. Thursday and Friday of the tournament were nice weather but then it rained all day Saturday. Brayden again played pretty good, as did all of the boys. As a coach and dad it is nerve racking sometimes, but has been fun to see all the boys progressing and getting better each time we play. Brayden was happy to have both sides of the family come out and watch his games. I have not gotten any pictures of Maddie playing yet but I will post some as soon as she has a game.

A drive to the right center fence for a double!!!!

Picture of Brayden pitching, Laurie thinks that he looks just like me in this picture.

Ready to make the play at first.

"Dancing Machine"

The big event for the first week of April was Bryaden's school program. They were celebrating Utah as a State. They had county reports that they had to turn in, a creative building of popular things in there selected county, and of course the program, which Brayden was a Western Square Dancer.(Yes he had to touch a girls hand, that was rough!!) They sang all sorts of songs about the state and songs that had something to do with every county in Utah.

Brayden chose San Juan County. After Jim and Nat moved down there he has been interested in that part of the state. It was fun for him to search the internet for interesting facts about San Juan County and he is excited to go camping this summer down there.

Western Square Dance

This was during one of the county songs.

Brayden's San Juan County project was Lake Powell with Rainbow Bridge.