More pictures..Ashley, Morgan, and Olivia imitating Jeff...such a cute spoof on him! Nick pitching to Tim. Brother to brother playing- a mother's delight. Matt, Tim, Blake, and Nick posed for a picture after winning the championship on Sunday.

More pictures taken at the museum...Nick's team posing beffore the tournament started. Tim is in there too. Nick just after winning the tournament. I thought his happiness captured it all. I love his joy!

These are pictures taken at the St. Louis City Museum. We took a field trip there on Friday before we headed to the Cardinal game.

Champions!

Nick's team finally won a tournament this year. Wow, it was wonderful. I just love the families on this team. The team has changed some because Jeff is now the coach. He has moved down to Nick and Michael will have a new coach for the 2009 season. Jeff wanted to get the kids together this fall for a few tournaments and this weekend we were in St. Louis. Tim was able to play because we had 2 kids that couldn't make it.

This team is skilled! We beat every team in 4 innings. The championship game was a bit more challenging but we still won in 4 innings. The pitcher for the opposing team was good (he threw hard and a curve ball) but boy, our kids hit him hard. The final score was 8-0. The kids came home with their first 1st place trophy.

Home at 10, up around 6 and back at school. School- we're having a hard time today getting back into the swing of the to-do's. I decided that this week we would "do" history instead of read about history. We are studying the westward expansion and learning about the Oregon Trail so we made a salt-dough map of the United States. Tim was in charge of the grassy areas, Ashley had the rivers and lakes and Nick had the mountains. They did such a good job. We're reading a diary of a young girl who traveled the Oregon Trail with her family so to see how hard it was to travel by foot and wagon made it all the more real to them and to me! I'll post pictures later of our weekend and day.

Hi im Tim!

Hi i'm Tim and I like Baseball. My favorite part of the day is playing baseball catch with my dad or practicing with my dad. I am on a travel baseball team called the Champaign Tribe. I am on the 10u. One of my friends is on the Tribe too. I have two brothers and one sister. I have Spanish on Tuesday and Co-op on Thursday. I am homeschooled too. I like being homeschooled because you can get your independent work done before anyone is out of school. I also have two dogs and 2 cats. My two dogs names are Bogey and Maggie. My two cats names are Lilly Fay and Sammy he is the younger one.

The End By Tim

A little about my self.

Hi my name is Ashley and I love dance! I take dance at Cristine rich studio. I take tap, jazz, tumbling, and ballet. My favorite class is jazz. I also have three other brothers and they like baseball and basketball! They are all older then me. I also am home schooled.