Spring is in the air

Spring.

It's such a lovely season.

Torrential rains bring the most beautiful landscape on earth.

In Olympia we get to see the Olympics jagged and breathtaking covered in white

Mt. Rainier majestic in the distance.

We have the most lovely fluffy cherry blossoms everywhere you look.

And more greens than you could fathom, different shades everywhere you look, glowing in the sunlight, dark in the woods.

Spring also brings sports.

This is the first season that we have 4 kids on 4 different teams.

Mark is coaching one and assisting two baseball teams.

Sarina is in her third season of volleyball.

It's an insanely, wonderfully busy time of year.

Elsa is playing her first season of baseball.  She was so excited for her first game she pulled on that uniform before even coming downstairs, just as soon as she woke up.

Charlie is in his third season of baseball.  He plays with his pre-school buddies and this year is big boy ball- no coaches in the field, 3 outs in the inning, and a pitching machine.  He played catcher in his first game of the season and was on it!  It's going to be fun to watch him out there catching.  Mark said he's a natural.  I need to get a picture of him in his uniform...

Carl has moved up.  They're stealing bases, wearing cups, and all around big kids now.  I just about fell over the other day when he came skidding down the stairs ready to pull on his pants that I had to weave the belt through.  He had his special black baseball socks pulled up- over half-way up his thighs, and his special undies that hold the cup.  It was quite a look...

He's been playing first and third and pitching when he can.  I have to say I'm a tense wreck watching him pitch.  He's so little it's amazing to me that he can hurl a ball that far with pretty awesome accuracy.  And when playing third he fielded a ball perfectly-firing it to first then catching the return to get a second out (which we all think he got but the ump called the kid safe).

Sarina is loving volleyball.  She wanted to play at the YMCA so she had the fundamentals down for her first season on the school team next year.  It's fun to watch her walking around with her volleyball under her arm muttering "bump" "set" "spike!"

Our days are FULL.

But our kids are happy,

engaged,

and healthy.

I don't think we could ask for one single thing more.