1st TBall Game

Adalie had her first TBall "game" this past Saturday. Basically, everyone on both teams just gets to take a turn at batting while the other tries to catch the ball. No outs or anything since they are so young. It was absolutely hilarious to watch these kids. Adalie had missed her first practice on the Saturday before, so we knew she would be a little behind but not too big of a deal. Catching and throwing went fine, but when it came time to hit the ball off the Tball stand, she got really confused. She didn't understand dropping the bat and running to first base after the ball was hit. She would hit the ball off the stand and then try and run after the ball and get it before anyone else would. Same when she actually made it to a base. When one of her teammates would hit the ball, she would run off the base and towards the ball. Then there is the whole other issue of running the right bases. There were so many coaches screaming so many different things to all the different kids on the field...it was funny seeing Adalie running from first base right across the Field to third base-- skipping second all together. And then from Third to the pitchers mound because Hey, it looks like a base and she had no idea what HOME was. Either that, or she would run to mom and dad by the fence because we are HOME to her... Needless to say Brett is running bases with her this week and practicing her hitting.

When we asked her about what she thought about it all she said "Ya I can see myself playing this game all the time! I was pretty good at it" We are very excited to be molding her into her new softball career... =)

These next few Saturdays are going to be quite entertaining.

random-nesses

Adalie will usually walk into our room almost every night still asking to go to the bathroom. It freaks me out almost every time and I am scared that one day I am going to accidentally punch her in the face. Brett is going to have to switch me sides or something....My back always faces the door now when we go to bed and I am not a fun person to wake up between 12pm and 6am. I inherited my dads "don't wake me during the night or i cannot be held responsible for what incident may occur" gene. Seriously, my adrenalin and heart start racing and I always awake in a moment of panic. Reminds me of the days when she was little and would stand in our hallway barely visible in the hallway nightlight saying "I'm heeerrrrrreeeee" Kind of scary sometimes.

Sometimes I wish McDonalds would deliver. Sometimes that cheeseburger craving comes on quite thick...

Everyday Brett and I wake up ready to leave Des Moines for the summer. Too bad we still have like 4 weeks ahead of us until we actually go somewhere for a bit. Then school starts again pretty much right after we get home. Although, Brett got us a hotel room for Omaha next week that I am pretty sure i guilt-ed him into getting. Temple working that is LONG overdue, and a trip to the Omaha zoo for the kiddos. Should be great!!

I seriously need to get rid of the ID channel....All these datelines, 48 hour mystery, Nightmare Next door, everyone is out to kill people shows are getting frightening. Brett has to tell me all the time to stop watching them. They are so sad!! I whole heartedly feel that if everyone just lived with an attitude of gratitude the world wouldn't be such a bad place sometimes.

Adalie had her first TBall practice and game today. Probably the funniest thing I have ever seen....more details and pictures tomorrow. The camera got left in the car with Brett and it has all the pictures on it.

Weather Alerts

So Brett and I signed up for this weather alert thing on our phone. Des Moines weather freaks me out so far. I have the hardest time trying to sleep through it all!! Tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, lightening, flooding....Since I am a major over active worry wort, Brett got us these weather alerts text to our phones in the hopes one of us will wake up when something bad is about to happen. It has come in pretty handy, but seriously it might be a little excessive tonight...we have gotten about 20 weather text alerts in 2 1/2 hours of pretty much the same thing. A sever thunderstorm and flood warning. K, got it. I have the emergency bag ready. Flashlight in my side table. Rain jackets ready, And all the swimming floats in our upstairs closet ready just in case. Totally not kidding. Brett had a good laugh about it all. But hey, who is he gunna be thanking when we are drifting in open waters?!!? Hummmmm????? You're Welcome!!

Summer Begins!

Yesterday daddy took us out on a family date! We went to go see Kung Fu Panda II at this theater and one of the best thing about it is that Adalie AND Cason were both free. Absolutely awesome in our book! Adalie loved the whole thing and Cason lasted about the first hour shoving his face with popcorn. Seriously, he is a Sorensen through and through when it comes to loving his popcorn. The movie was cute and it even leaves it open for a third one. Which, I am strangely excited about. Should be fun.

We are trying to find things to do with our time here in Des Moines for the summer. Brett gets pretty bored doing nothing all day. We start by planning out our week at Family Home Evening on Monday nights. This is our first week. We have done pretty well i think keeping the fun in and the boring to a minimum, but it has been kind of hard since both Brett and I are taking our turn at being sick. Plus it is so stinkin hot outside that hanging out inside the house with the AC is sort of ideal right now....Plus we need fun things to do on a medical student budget of practically nothing =) Suggestions appreciated...

5 yrs

Yesterday was Brett and mines 5 yr anniversary. Hard to believe it has been five yrs. Blame it on my horrible memory, but I honestly don't remember too many moments without Brett in it. And the moments I do remember I seemed to have replaced them with Brett which sometimes causes interesting conversations betwixt the two of us....lots of "honey that wasn't me" stuff.

Usually we are able to sneak away for a few days because there has been family around for the kiddos to stay with, but this year since it is just the two of us alone here in IA, we snuck away for a few hours for a date. Brett took us to Red Lobster. This is kind of a new thing for us considering we are both not so keen on seafood. However, we have fallen in love with their Lobster Pizza and we shared a main course of soup, salad, and Cajun Parmesan chicken, which was absolutely delicious! We even finished with a sweet brownie treat at the end. Everything was quite filling and scrumptious!












Then we headed off to play some mini golf =) Haven't done it for yrs and it was way fun. Not your ordinary mini golf though. We took the retro route and went black-light, indoor mini golfing. AC friendly and we were the only ones in there which was fun. We got to sneak and make out in the corners like teenagers =) And you can also see our level or maturity by the pictures I took....We had a bet going on the game. Whoever won didn't have to change a diaper on Sunday and also got to sleep in that day. =) Turns out we tied, so we came to the agreement of one of us getting to do one or the other...Brett is sleeping in and I am diaper free for the day right hun??

It was a wonderful night out with my best friend in the whole world. I really do feel quite lucky with the man I roped into marrying me 5 yrs ago. It has been great, and continues to get better with age. Just like cheese i suppose. Or wine I guess. but since we don't drink, Ill use the stinky cheese thing.... haha. We dated for a few hours, got married in a few minutes, and got pregnant a few seconds after that! Not really the actual timeline of things (may be to some), but seems like it looking back on it all. My life has been the perfect little romantic comedy, and I love it. I really can't think of a second i haven't enjoyed. I love you so much Brett and you know it. You're my best friend. My confidant. My teddy bear. My lifesaver. My funny bone. My sweetheart. My heart. My all....every moment is better than the last as long as your in it with me babe. I am so grateful for you and that I get to spend eternity by your side growing, laughing, and loving together. Forever and always my love! Love me the same. I know you do. Thank you.

Bloggin'

Oh my goodness. My blogging has been lacking and so boring! i wouldn't blame anyone for not reading.... Still not much has been happening. Cason has been sick for the last few days so we haven't even gotten out of the house much. Adalie and I went swimming here at the complex. Ok 1. the water is absolutely freeeeezzzzing. and 2. there was a little too much...eerrrr "trash" there for my taste. I don't want my child exposed to cursing 10 yr olds and sexually immodest 13yr olds and drunken 20yr olds just yet. So, when the trash gets taken out or there is less of it around, we will go again. Not a good idea when your 3yr old is asking what F**nA** means. So, not thanks for now complex pool!!

I have yet to start my scrapbooking summer endeavor. I don't really know what I am waiting for but I need to get started. I think that since there is SO MUCH to be done, the workload is making me a little less excited about it. But I WILL do it.....soon-ish.

Adalie is grounded today. She had a not so fun temper tantrum episode last night that lasted from about 8 to 9:30. I am way bummed because we wanted to take her to the water park today down the street here. Also, she doesn't get cartoons this morning, which makes for a long day for her. With her in trouble, it is no fun for us either.....today would've been a great day to go to the zoo or the water park. We will try again tomorrow.