We are the champions!

Kees has an unbelieveable game on the mound... his best ever. The thing about Kees is that when the heat is on he comes through, and tonight he didn't just come through... he dominated!

Here he's coming off the mound after a three up, three down inning.

Kees snags a low-flying ball and throws the runner out at first!

Kees throws his limit of 75 pitches and comes off the mound to applause... in five innings he kept their bats quiet, only walked two players and had a three up, three down and kept us in the game 1-0! Here he is giving the ball to Vinnie to closed the game. Vinnie did a stand-up job as well and we ended up winning the game 6-3 and are the tournament champions!

Sweet success! Now it's a week's rest and then starts the all-star season... no rest for the weary...

To the championships and all-stars!!!

Kees was on fire today... hitting balls out to the outfield, making plays as shortstop and then when called to pitch getting players out... we won the game and on to the championship final!

To add icing to the cake Kees was nominated to the all-star team!

Field Day!

Fun during the Field Day (yes, gifted and talented children can actually compete at athletic events ;-) class relay ... Kees handing off to his classmate and then cheering on his team... I think they got third.

Beach to Bay Relay Marathon

Billed as the oldest (31 years) and largest (over 9,000) relay marathon we did the Beach to Bay on Saturday. "Dads and daughters"... that's what we called our team... although after injuries to a dad and his daughter we became two dads and two daughters and two of their friends. Regardless it was a blast and even with the two girls doing some walking we placed something like 200 out of 800 in the adult mixed division!

I ran the first leg on the beach... yes... 4.5 miles in the soft sand... and handed off to Kiersten. Our hand-off was hilarious because it took like a minute because as we ran along side each other she handed me her jacket and I handed her the baton and my iPod!

Here's Kiersten moving along on leg 2... check out the cool "no hands" modification I did to our baton!

Playoffs!

The boys kicked their butts... 11-1... on to the next game!

The Daughters

And here are the daughters... having fun after the race.

Awards day and baseball

Today was awards day for the fourth graders... my kids will never have perfect attendance with as many extracurricular activites as they have ;-)

Kees has been having a bit of a slump so we did some batting practice today and within 15 minutes he was banging them out again! The game, unfortunately was a close one with our team losing by one point! Now to the playoffs!!!

(During the game Kiersten got in some pitching with her friends in the batting cages.)

Girls night out!

The girls got together tonight for their last training run before the relay marathon this weekend and afterwards enjoyed pizza and coke in the hot tub... the dinner of champions... at least for 6th grade champions ;-)

Another win!

The kids played a great game and beat the number 1 team (we're 2nd I think) 12-4 !