Get Out! (or... a good start to summer!)

We started off our summer with a day in Fruita with friends - mountain biking, hiking, some requisite Hot Tomato pizza on the back deck, and more biking and playing in the desert. Even came out with the first official knee scrape of the season - which I took as a good sign - and a good excuse for getting dessert that night!

3 families - 9 boys.
9 dirty, sweaty, stinky, sweet & funny boys!

The tone was set for many June days outside...

the weather simply has been too nice not to enjoy and there are just so many reasons to go take a hike on the trails in town, take a little dip in the ditch to cool off, take a hike out of town, or spend Father's Day showing Mojo & Dado the South Fork trail and cave!

This past week, Hamp went with his buddies to a soccer camp in Glenwood Springs - it was beautiful, hot and apparently a great chance to better his soccer skills! Oh, and he had fun with his friends and I got to see my mountain in the background......

We are off to Tennessee to visit the Hightower fam - I am sure there will be plenty of time spent outside then, too!

So far, summer has been good to us.

Gator baseball

Another season of Little League Baseball has gone down in the books. 

Unfortunately, the books show a 4-15 record. 

While it was not exactly a winning season, it was still fun (as always!) to watch Hamp play ball... and I appreciate the challenges of parenting him through all the demands of the season:

~ uniform maintenance

~ attitude adjustments (sometimes in between innings)

~ coping with poor performance

~ being a good teammate in times of success and failure

~ and especially staying focused on the reason we play ball: because it is fun.

I hope he will continue to play baseball - he loves it, he learns so much about focus and perseverance and teamwork, and I love all the kids that he plays with (and so does he!)

photos courtesy of Michelle Cox Photography