Explanation...

I really do have some explaining to do but I promise I have very good reasoning. I mean 10 months...really? I can't believe its been that long since I have blogged. I told myself that I would blog at least once a week come January so here it goes. Where to begin? I promise I will make this short and sweet. So, last post was when Tommy was in spring training playing for the Royals, doing unbelievable and thinking we were headed to Kansas City! Ha! How quickly things change and when I mean change they certainly changed for us.

A week before our beautiful baby girl was born Tommy was released and decided that he would not look for a new team and that his 10 year playing career had come to an end. And that is when the fun began. Find out Grace is breech. Head to the hospital 1 week early to perform an aversion that is successful and 48 long hours later Grace joined our family. Three days later find out she has a heart murmur. Tommy registers for classes full-time. Tyler begins kindergarten and Dylan starts pre-k. Pure Chaos!! So, somehow we survive the months of August and September and I am finally starting to feel like a human being again. Then Tommy shows up at the park and drops a bomb on me. I got a job coaching and we are moving to Jacksonville. What?? Leaves that night to spend a week with the coaches and team. Comes home and three weeks later we put our house on the market thinking it won't sell or rent until after the holidays. Wrong!! Six days later our home is rented and we have 10 days to be out. Find a home in Jacksonville through the Internet, pack, clean, patch holes, paint, rent a moving truck, stay with my parents for a few days and then load up our family and head to our new home. And on December 1st we pulled into the driveway of our new home, which remind you I had never even been to Jacksonville. Unpack, decorate for Christmas, register Tyler at his new school, travel back home for the holidays, visit friends, head to Georgia for New Years and settle back into our home and gear up for what 2010 has in store for us!! Whew! So, in a nut shell that's why I have been MIA from the blogging world. But God is so good and the baseball life truly prepared me for what God had in store for our family. It taught me to roll with the punches, to never doubt God's plan, to go outside of my comfort zone, and most importantly it prepared my kids to be confident and resilient. We just know and trust that this is his plan and we are where we are meant to be (at least for now). We feel so blessed!

Man "Meats" Wall...

I got a text from Tommy this afternoon that said,"go to msn.com" and that was it. Our Internet has been down for the past week so I ran over to my parents (they live across the street) to get on-line. My initial thought was that something bad had happened, but thankfully what I saw was Tommy smashed up against the outfield wall! Hilarious!! The boys thought it was especially funny. They could not stop giggling. So, if you get a chance go to http://www.msn.com/ and if the picture is not on the main page anymore, I am sure you can click on the sports link to see it! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I will be back to posting pictures soon our Internet will hopefully be working by tomorrow!

Guess what...

It's

a

Girl!

I am still in shock this morning! I can't believe it! Tommy and I went back and forth whether or not to find out the sex. I wanted to know and he wanted it to be a surprise. We didn't find out with Dylan and it was awesome, but with us having a baby in the middle of season and a week before Tyler starts kindergarten, I wanted to be prepared! Especially if they only give Tommy two days to come home like they did with Dylan. So, we came to an agreement and this is what we did. I had the lady put the results in a sealed envelope for me (we all know it needed to be sealed because I definitely would have peeked) and fax the results to Tommy's hotel. I called the hotel and they put it in a sealed envelope for Tommy as well. As soon as he got to the hotel we got on our web cams and opened it at the same time! It was awesome! My family was here and we were all going crazy. Dylan actually started crying because we all scared him half to death we were screaming so loud! Before Tommy and I hung up the phone last night I said, "Can you believe you are going to have a little girl?" And he said, "No, but it makes this so much more exciting and she is going to be soooo spoiled!" Isn't that the truth!

I can't believe that I can now shop for dresses, bows (jenn I will need bow class 101 because as we all know I am not very good with that), cute shoes, and everything else pink, pink, pink. I especially can't wait to start decorating the nursery.