Happy 40th Birthday TR!!

It's official.....TR is Over the Hill! Happy Birthday!

On to other news, Bradley's baseball team had their first doubleheader yesterday. They split winning the first game 12-5 and losing the second 11-7. The boys played really well the first game - Bradley pitched 2 1/3 innings and was 1-2 at the plate. TR & I missed the second game due to a bat incident with TR's head (no worries, his head is very hard), but I hear that Bradley hit a double with a couple of kids, was hit by a pitch and didn't remember if he batted a third time. Hopefully, some pictures were taken and we will put them on the baseball website.

Run Around the Universe

All I can say is that Bradley continues to amaze me. Today we ran a 5K (3.1 miles) with our friends, Shay & Melissa, at Universal Studios. Dubbed the "Run Around the Universe" it takes you through City Walk and both parks before ending in front of the Hard Rock Cafe. Start time was 7:30 am (too early) and it was a balmy 45! When the gun went off so did Bradley, leaving me (that was the plan) but also leaving Shay & Melissa (this was not the plan). However, we did have a plan as we assumed we would not all finish at the same time (hint - I'm the slow one). Amazingly enough, Bradley completed his FIRST 5K with a time of 28:30!!!! Melissa & Shay came in behind him at 33:00 and I brought up the rear at 45:00. However, since I bettered my time from the last 5K by more than 5 minutes I was very happy! Sorry there were no pictures but we didn't have anyone with us to take them and we certainly didn't have any way to carry a camera!

Almost Forgot...

As if I don't have enough on my plate, I'm the webmaster for Bradley's travel baseball team. Check out our team site - www.orlandobraves.com. We hope to get pictures of the team and the boys this weekend and add to the site.

Orange Bobcats Win Again

Whew, it's been a really busy week! So where do I start....TR is in California working this week - complete with a trip to Hollywood Blvd & Rodeo Drive. He'll be back late Saturday night just in time to leave again next Tuesday. Bradley and I have had a whirlwind week - Monday was basketball practice; Tuesday was track practice, pitching practice and baseball practice; Wednesday was co-ed softball and then the basketball game; thankfully tonight we will rest - good thing as the weekend is booked! Friday is baseball practice; Saturday Bradley and I are doing a 5K at Universal with our friends Shay & Melissa; Sunday Bradley has a double header baseball game and then, of course, we're doing Superbowl at the O'Hara's and celebrating TR's big day.

My boys did win their basketball game tonight. We were short one player who was out due to illness. Final score was 26-21. We still need to work on taking care of the basketball - not turning the ball over! I know that I am a broken record on the sidelines sometimes telling them to take care of the basketball. We are now all alone in first place as we are the only team to only have lost one game. With three games to go, the boys really have to tighten up and work hard.

Brrrrrr.....

I thought we lived in Florida? You'd never know it by the temperatures the last couple of days. It's been freezing here - right now it's only 37!

The Orange Bobcats got themselves back on track tonight with a win over the maroon team 21-14. It was good to get the win, but it was a really sloppy game on our part - we should have beaten this team by at least 20 points! We've had a rough couple of weeks with our practice schedule being interrupted due to the holiday Monday and a gym closing last week. Hopefully everyone will be back at practice next week as we'll be back to our normal schedule.

It's Baseball Time!

Whew - the cold weather has left just in time for our first baseball scrimmage game. Bradley attended his first practice Friday evening for his new travel team, the Orlando Braves. Friday's practice was really cold! TR got back from New Orleans last night and was glad it wasn't as cold here as it was there. Yesterday there was a team manager's meeting for baseball and Bradley's coach managed to schedule a scrimmage for today. The weather was perfect! Bradley pitched the first three innings, striking out 5, walking none, had three put-outs and only allowed 2 runs - his total pitch count was around 60. He did an awesome job! He then went to right field for two innings and then caught for two innings. He did a great job in all of his positions.

Bobcats Suffer First Loss

My boys lost their first basketball game tonight 19-17. All in all, it was a great game and the boys played really hard. We were short one man tonight and that hindered our rotation a little but overall I am really proud of the boys. We needed to shoot a little better from the foul line tonight though - Bradley was 0-4 on his free throws which is really unusual. However, he did a great job rebounding - so good that after the game was over, the referee stopped to ask him how old he was and who taught him how to box out - after a quick nod to indicate I was the instructor, the ref proceeded to compliment him on doing such a good job. That was a great off the ball comment for the ref to make. It could be a quiet day tomorrow as my voice was pretty much gone during the 4th quarter. We'll keep working hard and get ready for next week's game. TR has escaped our blast of cold weather with a trip to New Orleans for the Fench Tech trade show - he'll be back late Saturday evening - managing to miss our coldest nights. Bradley is supposed to have baseball practice Friday evening if its not too cold - at least its still sunny and we should be back to our normal 70s next week. Stay warm everyone!