Diet...Baseball

Well it has been 8 weeks since Josh and Andy have started dieting. The last weigh in results are................Josh lost 35 pounds.....Andy lost 44 pounds....but Josh won the money by 1% BMI. If Andy had lost around 5 more pounds he would have won. Last week Andy only lost 1 pound and this week he lost 10. But he looks really good and I wish I had a before and after pics. I will look through my photos and see if I can show a before pic and then take a picture of him now. He still wants to lose up to 20 more pounds. He also shaved his head so he is completely bald and he really likes it. It looks good but I miss the sideburns...ha.

I have lost 10 pounds in a month so averaging a little over 2 pounds a week....not to bad. Jessie and I had an opportunity to go to Casa Mexicana, just us, last night and I soooooo ate what I wanted...it was sooooooooooooo good too.

Baseball season is almost over. Jessie and Joshua have 1 game left this weekend except Joshua won't get to play his because we are going to go to the Crater of Diamonds with my mom and sister and her family on Saturday.

Joshua has done well this season and even made an out at first base on Saturday even though he wasn't technically playing first base....the coach put all the kids in the infield...not sure of the logic there....so they were pretty crowded and Joshua was positioned by first base but he really wanted to be playing 1st base and on one play decided he would take over and he caught the ball and got an out....which party of me was upset that he took over another kids position but another part of me was like FINALLY someone who can catch a ball and make a play...haha

Jessie has played really well the last few games. He plays 1st base on the AA team and this weekend he got to play short stop for the 1st time and did really good. He also got to play up on the AAA team....which they wanted him because he is a good outfielder but for some reason he played 1st base more then he played in the outfield....so not sure what that was all about...he has been hitting the ball really well and made quite a few outs, in fact, 2 balls in a row were hit to first base and he made 2 outs. This week he is participating in a 2 day baseball camp that is 2 hours a day. It is taught by the Bryant High School Coaches and team and he was excited about that.

There are a few other things going on that I will mention soon...

Little Oaks Pre-Season Tournament 2009

So Jessie's baseball team won the Little Oaks Pre-Season Tournament! His team actually went undefeated last year and are still undefeated this year. So they are definitely going to be a target for the other baseball teams this year.

I am so proud of Jessie. He is really good at football and he is good at baseball but he just doesn't have as much self confidence in baseball that he has in football. But today he is starting to get more confidence. We played 3 games today not including the 3 we played during the week. The first game we played today the team was really good and they shut down all of our hitters we couldn't even get on 1st base...So Jessie plays up on the 9 year old team and he is last on the batting roster...(mostly b/c last year he didn't consistently hit well) And it is the 3rd inning and Jessie is the first to bat and he hits a base hit and then the players after him start hitting and he makes a run. So now the score is 1 to 3. Then later in the game Jessie hits the ball to the fence and we score more runs and win the game 6-4.

The last game we played tonight we were behind 5-1 and we come back and tie the game. And we are in the bottom of the 5th inning (they only play 5 innings), 2 outs, 1 runner on 1st, and Jessie at bat and he hits a line drive up the middle to the fence to bring in the winning run! The umpire gave him the game ball. He also had a great catch in center field and had a double play! His confidence has grown and I am so happy for him!


Me and Jessie with his game ball...

Gage also got a game ball from Coach Bill for having some awesome catches as pitcher and getting us some outs!

Gage and his mom with his game ball...


Getting presented the 1st place trophy!