Baseball - Memorial Day Weekend

We closed out the regualar season for Cal State Fullerton baseball with friends on a pretty warm (hot) Sunday afternoon. Helen provided some great food for tailgating! The NCAA baseball tournament begins next weekend and CSUF will host - the full tournament field will be announced tomorrow (OU also will be a host site this year). It was another fun season of great college ball, now we'll see if we can get to Omaha without our starting centerfielder. Helen is really hoping the team recieves a national seed for the tournament - so she can see more baseball when she gets back from Tulsa (if we win regionals). She leaves tomorrow - just as our nephew Kevin will be coming to stay a couple of weeks (working in a doctorate program at Biola University).

In other news:

Aaron has a lead role in a theater production in Hollywood that begins performances this Friday.

Just a month away from Abner time!

Hope your Memorial Day weekend is a good one.

Mom and the Boys

Aaron and Stephen helped me pull together a nice lunch for Helen to celebrate Mothers Day. Helen sat in the dining room to be thoroughly amazed by the precision, creativity and teamwork (that, and to answer the occasional question - like are there actually nuts in nutmeg). We tried a new approach for dessert - having found a dessert rub - with pineapple and bananas off the grill with ice cream. We'll call it barbechic. We wish all of us could have been together and hope the time with your family was nice.

We thank God for our special girl.

Crashing-in in Lodi

Mike & Cindy's new digs
Ken teaching Cindy his finer rose growing points
Helen standing inside a fallen tree trunk
Sequoia's

Helen and I made a last minute decision and spent a three day weekend in the Stockton/Lodi area. Taking advantage of the fact Cindy never tells me no, we followed the Cal State Fullerton baseball team to Pacific University for their last road trip of the year (until post season - where it looks like we may have to hit the road for NCAA regionals for the first time in a while). I was proud of myself for actually making it to a game this time up to Lodi!

Mike & Cindy are eligible for the Excellence in Accommodation award for hosting family over the week end as they are preparing to move. We got to see thier new place and really like it! Their place has a great lay-out with special features that will be favorites of the gran-chillin.

We made a complete day out of the return trip and drove into Kings Canyou Nat'l Park. This park has long been overshadowed by Yosemite but is just as rewarding/unique. Went to see the 3rd largest tree in the world (General Grant Tree) and took a short cut on Hwy 245 al the way to Visalia that took us through mountains, chapparal, ranch land, orchards and some great vistas.

Again, thanks Mike and Cindy (house warming gift now assured)