First Ever T-Ball Game

Warning.  It was the first T-Ball game ever and I took a lot of pictures.  And these are only just a few (but a lot). 

Tyler has his first ever T-Ball game on Friday night.  We lucked out with some dry weather (there was a rain out on Monday night).  Tyler's team the Phillies played the Nationals who were also in red jerseys.  It made for a very red field :).  The rules of the game:  every one on the team bats, each batter gets 5 pitches before the Tee comes out, kids run all the bases whether there is an out or not, each team is up to bat 3 times before the game is over.  Perfect rules for their age I think, though Tyler was definitely keeping and "outs" score in his head.  Hailey thought the game was far too long :).  Dave astonishingly made it through the whole game standing and coaching (the game was at 6pm and he'd been up and working since 5:30 the previous morning....a nice 36+ hour day.  Turns out he wouldn't miss the game for the world...or much needed sleep in this case.  Here we go with the pics:

Pre game warm up

A field of red jerseys

The game has begun and Tyler is guarding his base

 Playing in the field is fun but it's really all about the hitting, right?

Ready to bat.  Tyler is #13, he'd be the one putting his glove on a teammates head.

Tyler and Jack

First at bat

Running home

Getting home celebration

Fielding is not quite as exciting.  Though to his credit, he didn't lay down on the ground like a few others did.

2nd at bat

swing

End of game

Tyler had a great time and is looking forward to the rest of the season.

Dad and coach (very proud)

Easter

The Easter Bunny arrived at our house sometime during the night and the kids were extra early in anticipation of what awaited them at the bottom of the stairs.

But before the kids headed down stairs the found several eggs the Easter Bunny had left in their rooms.  Hailey loved finding eggs this year.

Tyler was very happy to see a basket waiting for him.

checking everything out

Hailey received a necklace and bracelet which in true coincidence matched her dress perfectly

Tyler couldn't wait for the egg hunt and hardly looked at his basket before he was off.  It didn't take him long to find all 32 of his eggs.



Eggs in hiding

Baskets filled with discovered eggs

On Friday before Easter Hailey and I took a trip to Costco for our Easter food supplies.  She say this dress and said she wanted it.  Since she normally refuses to wear a dress I just I had to buy it for her.  It's her favorite color: turquoise.  She looked very cute...even though it only lasted through church and didn't make it to our family celebration.



After church we headed out to Gerry's for good food and more egg hunting.  Withing about 20 minutes of arriving Hailey complained of a stomach ache and said she wanted to go home.  About 3 minutes later she was fast asleep and slept right through brunch and the hiding of the eggs.

The rest of the kids were sequestered to the bedroom while eggs were hidden.

Here is everyone getting ready for the BIG hunt which included 196 eggs this year.  I think only 5 were no found.



Egg hunters at the ready

And GO!

Hailey was quite the funny egg finder.  She was so excited about it and loved it but half the time she almost had to step on it before she saw it :)



loving her daddy

Ty was able to find some of the trickier ones this year....with a little help.



Do you see anymore eggs anywhere?



egg discovery

Mid hunt egg audit to find out how many more eggs needed to be found

And at the end...the big egg cash out.  Jessie found the $10 egg this year.

Then it was time for some tree climbing.

 And scooter riding down the lawn hill

And finally there was a birthday cake for Jessie and Hailey.

 The kids had so much fun playing with there cousins.  It's such a sigh of relief when they can spend hours playing with cousins and don't need us.  A definite first this year.  If only Easter were every weekend :).


The new generation of cousins....boys terribly outnumbered

Decorating Eggs

The kids were so excited to decorate eggs this year.  Tyler remebered how much fun it was and I don't think Hailey remembered much but she was excited anyway.  We had lots of eggs to decorate to contribute to the big Becker egg hunt.  So afer school on Friday we set to work.  I did all  the color mixing so we could have super bright colors since I figured the kids would like that best.  Turns out they were so excited to decorate eggs that they could only handle the eggs "coloring" for about a minute before taking them out.  So we were done decorating all 4+ dozen eggs in about 10-15 minutes and most were a lovely pastel :).



Ready to deocrate

And....GO!

Hailey had a lot of fun

Busy at work

No patience for dipping holders....she just put her fingers right in :)

Some of the finished eggs