A Couple of Firsts!

I love Fridays - no scheduled activities for the kiddos, both get picked up in the early afternoon and there is NO pressure to get homework done before 10pm.  Fridays = relaxed atmosphere.

Not yesterday!

So many things going on with our house flood - the place is all cramped together since we lost furniture that holds things, we lost flooring which means we had to scoot a bunch of stuff into a small space and our walls are cut out 12" up!  It's confusing to mom - it's thrown off her traffic pattern and even though she was here when it all happened - she doesn't remember that it happened...that's actually kind of appealing!  It thrown me off too...clutter makes me borderline insane.  BUT yesterday the guy from the reconstruction firm was coming by the give us the official estimate for repairs.

Of course one thing led to another thing which led to another thing and by 4:00pm Friday relaxation was no where in sight!  The recon guy was caught in traffic, mom's hair appointment ran late, Peyton's pick up was perfect, Keaton's was not - waiting on a coach to replace a jersey, the Miller's decided to leave an hour early but Peyton forgot to tell me ... it was a mess!  By 5:15pm - all was well.

Which brings me to the firsts!  Peyton went to Grapefest with her friend Gracie's family.  They shopped and got snacks and were silly and took selfies and then it was time to ride rides!  Peyton went on her FIRST ferris wheel ride and her first UPSIDE DOWN ride.  I have video from the ferris wheel that Gracie posted on Instagram (hope I can figure out how to download it here!) of Peyton screaming when the ride started!  Sorry I missed it in person, but I do love technology.

Okay, just spent way too much time trying to get the ferris wheel video to load...suffice it to say, Peyton was terrified, thrilled, terrified, laughing, terrified, joyful, screaming, laughing, laughing, laughing, loving it!

And Keaton's first - his first baseball game as a Central Charger.  They started him at catcher - he looked really good.  Very natural.  Still needs some work on the throw to 2nd, but I was impressed with him.   He walked, he got hit by a pitch (surprise) faking a bunt, took a couple of innings off and then coach put him in a first. He's been playing first base for so long - it's his comfort zone.  He's got a stretch that would make a gymnast proud!  I don't think I realized how much I missed baseball.  It was good to be sitting back out in the sun, on the bleachers, rooting for his high school team.  Go Chargers!