We are armpit-deep in baseball here at the Vollmer house. Our boys joined the Academy Little League (ALL) baseball club here in the Springs, and we have been busy with the boys’ respective schedules.
Spring 2014 Baseball
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Pensacola Blue Wahoos “Field of Dreams” Experience
Just before the boys left Florida for good, T’s baseball team enjoyed an evening with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. I had written about the Blue Wahoos games in a previous post in 2012.
The kids got to take part in the team’s “Field of Dreams” experience, which was a block of seats together, dinner, getting introduced as a “featured guest” at the game, and a chance to hang out with the Blue Wahoos players before the game, either by singing the national anthem with them, or else running out to the field with the players as the players’ names are called.
My Baseball Boys
This year the boys are both on very good, very hard working teams. It’s nice to see their hard work and tons of practice pay off in good records. Since it’s become apparent that the boys are serious about their baseball, we made the investment in some better-than-beginner equipment for the two of them.
I took our good camera out to the fields earlier this month, but didn’t get the best pictures because I had to deal with the chain link fence. I was able to use the manual focus on most of them, and all things considered, I’m pretty impressed. Enjoy!
It’s Baseball Season!!!
It’s baseball season here — the boys are both in Navarre Youth baseball this year, and they got their uniforms and had their first games this past weekend.
Enjoy some pictures!!!!
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| At practice, Timmy is got some time as a catcher. |
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Road Trip III 2011: Atlanta Braves Baseball!
WARNING: This is a LONG post. I debated dividing it into two parts, but couldn’t find an easy dividing point. So instead I put in some headers to try to break up the story a bit. It was our entire motivation for our trip to Atlanta last weekend: we had Braves tickets! During Jacob’s … Read more
Challenger Soccer Camp
Earlier this month the boys enjoyed a week-long Challenger British Soccer camp put on at the Navarre Youth Soccer complex up the street. My sister’s oldest son had attended in North Carolina in the past and really enjoyed it. The week was VERY hot, and the first day was pretty hard on the boys. But … Read more
The Runner Girl’s Spawn
You can say I tried. I think Jacob might have a future in long distance running…Timmy probably won’t. At a Mother’s Day function this past week, one of Timmy’s classmates’ Moms tipped me off to a 1-mile kids’ fun run in Navarre Beach last Saturday. That night I headed over to one of our local hangouts in … Read more
Because I Wanted That Bottle Opener! Gulf Coast Half Marathon 2011
My Double Bridge Run success back in February inspired me to sign up for this half-marathon. I forced myself to do a deliberate training program. Starting right after the early February Double Bridge Run, I ran 2-3 x “short runs” of 3-5 miles each per week, plus 1 x “long run” approximately every week. Sometimes … Read more
The Return of Runner Girl?
That’s what I’d like to think… 🙂 Especially before we had kids, Dave and I enjoyed long-distance running. Obviously, our training dwindled some after the kids arrived, and between Dave and me and our double-jogging stroller, we’d always managed 1-2 races per year even after the kids were born. Then we hit a lazy streak … Read more