All-Stars Update...

Zach has played two more games since the last All-Stars posting. On Friday night, Morningside (Zach's team) played against Headid (a Sioux City team) and beat them 12-5. Zach struck out once at bat, mostly because the other pitcher was a lot slower than what Zach is used to. He did manage to get a double and a single his next few times at bat. Two of Zach's friends on the team got home runs during this game, but we are still waiting for one from Zach!

Today, Morningside played Northwest (another Sioux City team) and this game was just miserable! We had them 10-runned by the time the 3rd inning started, but we had to play out the whole 5 innings... the final score ended up being 22 - 1. Zach got a single, a walk, and a double -- this last hit looked like it was going to be a home run, but it dropped just inside the fence out in center field! Darn it!!!

Morningside has one game left in this district tournament. Tomorrow night they will play against Lawton-Bronson. Since Morningside is the only team in this tournament that is still undefeated, there is a pretty good chance they will be playing in the Championship game on Wednesday night. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

Let's Play Ball!

All-Stars Baseball has finally started for Zach! It was supposed to start last Sunday, July 6th but there was a rain delay due to severe thunderstorms coming through the area. We had a tornado touch down on the north side of Sioux City that afternoon in the Stone State Park area. Rain continued on Monday morning, so all games scheduled for Monday night had to be postponed because the fields were too wet...


Zach had two games last night. The first game was against Hinton... Zach's Morningside team won the game 14 - 2! I don't have any "stats" or details since I didn't get to go to the games. Brianna was home sick with the flu so I stayed home with her! Morningside played their second game against Westside (another Sioux City team) and won this game 18 - 2! Way to go Morningside! Still no home run for Zach, but he did get a triple with two runs batted in!! If this keeps up, we could be looking at a trip to State! Woo-hoo!!!!

Happy 4th of July... Belated, That Is!

We hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July! Ours was pretty "mundane" this year. As some of you know, CJ and I are building a deck on the side of the house. We started on Father's Day and have basically just been working a few hours here and there when we are not running off to a ball game! Since we didn't have to work on the 4th, we decided to spend the day working on the deck.

Brianna's friend, Nichole, invited her out to their cabin out at McCook Lake for the July 4th weekend! McCook Lake is in South Dakota, but is actually only about 6 - 7 miles from home! It is just over the border! They went out Friday morning and spent the night and Brianna came home Saturday night. She had lots of fun and it worked out for us too, since she wasn't bugging us all day while we worked! Zach was home and he helped us out quite a bit, but he also ended up going with the neighbors and shooting off fireworks later in the evening. This was fine with us... we were just glad we didn't ruin the holiday too much for them! They are used to going over to South Dakota and getting fireworks and shooting them all off all night long! When this deck is done, we are going to owe Zach and Brianna some "quality time with mom and dad"! They have been really good about it, though, and we try to let them get involved with building this deck as much as they can so they can say that they built it too!

End of Phillies' Regular Season

The Phillies' regular season ended on July 1st. I know I quit posting "game stats, etc." but it was getting pretty monotonous... I felt like I was just typing the same thing for each game! I will just sum up the season with this post!

Zach had a wonderful pitching season, and he did get a lot of doubles and triples, but no home runs this year! He still has All-Stars, so maybe we can get one out of him then?!

The Phillies ended their season with a record of 20-1. Good job, Phillies!!! They had three games that were shut-outs, and basically almost 10-runned everyone they played. They ended up with the 1st place trophy from the League. The team that came in 2nd place was six games behind the Phillies! Zach's team had some really good players this year! Congratulations, Phillies!!!

All-Stars Baseball

Zach found out at the end of June that he was selected for the All-Star baseball team, so he will still be playing baseball throughout the month of July, even when the regular season is over on July 1st! Great job, Zach ~ We are proud of you!


The All-Star team is made up of individuals from each of the teams in the league. The players take a vote on who they think should make the team, however they cannot vote for themselves or anyone else on their team. The kids with the most votes (the top 12) are then on the All-Star team representing our Morningside Little League. They will play against other leagues included in our District 6. If they win at the district level, they go to state! YEAH!!! Good Luck!!!

City Youth Softball Tournament

Brianna was in a city youth softball tournament on Saturday, June 21st. The games started at 8:00 AM and went on all day. The girls at this age level - 8 years old - play 3 innings per game, so each game is pretty much about 1 hour long. Brianna's team was winning their games, so it was working out that they play for an hour, have a 1 hour break, then play again. As the teams got narrowed down in the afternoon, they played back to back up to the Championship game. Brianna's team ended up playing 5 games and getting in to the Championship game, which they lost by ONE lousy point!!! They played really well all throughout the day and ended up going home with the 2nd place trophy!! Brianna had an awesome day -- she had two grand slams and two homeruns throughout this tournament!!! Way to go, Brianna!!!

Happy Belated Birthday, Mom!!

Okay... time to get this blog updated! Thank you for being so patient!! This still may take me a few days to get them all published since we are still busy every night!!!

First of all, I want to say a belated "Happy Birthday" to my mother! Her birthday was June 20th (I know I'm a little late... I said "belated", didn't I?!) Mom came to Sioux City for her birthday. We grilled steaks and had cake on Friday night, then Brianna had a softball tournament all day on Saturday. Saturday night we took Mom to Awesome Biker Nights downtown on Historic 4th Street. It was packed with so many people that you couldn't even look around to see if there was anyone you knew! We went to see Night Ranger perform! This is a band from the 80's -- some of the members looked different and the keyboardist was definitely a different person -- he didn't even look like he was 30 years old yet! The lead singer looked exactly the same -- same clothes, same long hairstyle, etc. He had sunglasses on, but when he took them off and they showed his face on the jumbo screen set up by the stage, then you could see how old he really was! They were still really good, though!

All in all, this was a good (and busy!) weekend -- I think Mom enjoyed it!!!