Ah, Springtime. The tulips are starting to push up through the ground. Daylight savings has started so it's no longer dark at 5:30. And spring sports are in full swing.
Nicky has been begging to play baseball for a couple of years. Today he had his first practice with his team. They are the Dodgers, much to Jen's delight. We have been working with him the last few weeks and he is getting pretty good at throwing and catching with his mitt. The hitting is coming along pretty well, too.
Becca wants to try her hand (or should I say feet) at soccer this fall. She was kicking the ball around the field while Nicky's team was practicing this afternoon. She played on a Junior Jazz basketball team over the winter.
Taylor is playing on the Bingham JV lacrosse team. The team has been working out since late January and the games finally started last week. The picture above was March 6th when they had four mini-games. They showed up to the field and there was snow on it from the night before. But that didn't stop them - although sometimes they got snow in their net and thought it was the ball.
Matt just finished up basketball season and he is now on a lacrosse team, too. He had his first practice today (no pictures of that yet). It should be a fun spring going to all these games!!
He got to play catcher one came and put on all the cool gear the catcher gets to wear.
I put my camera in the grass for this shot. Pretty good view with Mt. Timpanogos looming in the background.
Here Nicky has his eye on the ball right before getting a good hit. They played "coach pitch" baseball - the coach would pitch it and if they couldn't hit it after about ten pitches they would bring out a tee to hit it off. Nicky usually hit the first or second pitch. Only one time all season did he have to hit it off the tee.
