The Seven of Us

This year was Kenna's last year on the 9-12  year-old softball team.  I think she's played three years now.  (She waited a year so her friends Riley and Dawson, both on her left, could also play.) She began the season catching,but was moved to third base toward the end of the season. (Kenna doesn't like to be hot, so it was a welcome change.)  McKenna  progressed from being a consistent batter to being a consistenly powerful batter, hitting  grand slam in Tuesday's game.  Kenna's team plays good defense and they hit well, too...well enough to win the Border League Championship.  This photo was taken in Ogallala, where today's temp. was just about 100*.  Tuesday the girls played in 108* weather.  Parents brought shade tents, igloo water coolers, and ice towels.  The girls used every single drop of water on Tuesday.  Today, they had enough left to do this to their coach:

These are some of the cute & funny things Corbin has said recently.  I  think I'll laugh pretty hard when I read these in a few years. "This is the Last Day of Supper"  for his primary talk (instead of "The Last Supper"). At bedtime, when he asked for bread and butter for his snack, he said, "DO you know how to make that?"  (He'd only been given that by Jared, never by me.) At the ballgame---Corbin came running up to me followed by Mason Bornhoft.  Corb was yelling, "He's going to tell on me!"  I calmly asked , "Why? What's going on?" after Corbin and Mason both tried to talk,  Corbin exclaimed, "He's being mean!!"  and Mason shot back, "But he was watching me pee!" At the dinner table on Friday, after he'd asked what the next day was:  "I thought you were meanting [meaning] it was Sunday. 'Cause if it was, boy I'd hafta get busy on Father's Day presents!" ...