Tis' the season of softball

A couple weeks ago we had our first softball softball tournament. It was a mens and corec tournament. Even though we have been practicing a lot the last couple of months, we did not do great. I think it threw people off that we were playing in mens and corec and that is the first time we have ever done both, so no one was solely focused on one thing. Our mens team is playing again this weekend. Hopefully they are more prepared now and will do better.

A 6:30am selfie :) The ONLY downside to having softball almost every weekend literally means i never get to sleep in. Most games start at 9am and when we are playing or travelling a majority of the weekends we have to leave the house by 7am. If we have to drive more then a couple of hours we will usually drive up the night before and camp for the weekend.

Kendall came with us on Saturday. Usually it is just her any maybe one other kid so she usually entertains herself with the toys and stuff i bring her. This last tournament though, we had probably 10 kids there with our team alone. She had a blast playing all day long. They went to the playground, ran, played in the dirt, went on walks. Kendall was exhausted but still played all day.

Finally about 4 that afternoon she just couldn't take it anymore and wanted to sit in the stroller with  her blanket. We went on a little walk and she passed out. Last year and the year before i always used to make her take a nap and i would walk her around in the stroller until she fell asleep. This year i told myself it would be harder to get her to nap there because she would be playing and we don't have the big stroller anymore. This is the first time when we were there that she actually wanted to take a nap, so i let her.

The design of this tournament was not planned well. It is still pretty early in the year here and they had the last scheduled game at 7:40pm which was way to late and go figure it was one we ended up having to play in. After being out on the field in the dusk for some time (there are no lights on these fields) we decided to forfeit the game, it was way to dark and it just wasn't safe for anyone and they had no intentions of calling the game. When you can't see the ball coming until it hits the ground, its just not safe to be out on the field anymore. 

Meet our new baby

Jason and I had decided a while ago that when we got our house that we would get another dog. We looked and looked and found a lot. But we were being pretty picky as to what we wanted because Kash is such an awesome dog that we wanted to find one that could learn from him.

It took me a couple months of actively looking. I looked basically every day i could on craigslist, Facebook pages, in newspapers all across the state, animal rescues and humane societies and just couldn't find what we were looking for. 

We specifically wanted another pit bull. Last week I had kind of given up hope after i had found several and Jason would say no not that one. I decided to just get on craigslist and look one more time and if i couldn't find anything then i would just wait. Well turns out i found exactly what we were looking for and i contacted the people right away. Just so happens that they had 5 male puppies left and that he was travelling to Missoula this weekend. He sent me pictures of all the puppies and once Jason and I looked at them all we decided on this little guy.

The anticipation of waiting to pick him up was crazy! I have never had my own puppy before. We have always had dogs but usually have gotten them from the shelter. He is literally like my little fur baby. We kept it a secret from Kendall, I wanted it to be a surprise from her (plus if i told her it would have been all she talked about for days). 

Saturday finally came, i was really excited and could hardly wait. We loaded up in the car and met the guy and i showed Kendall and she said "Mom this is the best surprise ever!!!"

She just wanted to cuddle and sit with him on the way home but he was pretty whiny so I got to cuddle him and he eventually fell asleep.

Kash did go with us when we picked him up, mainly cause Kash goes pretty much everywhere with us, but also so they could meet and they loved each other right away.

His name is Kabo (like Cabo) and he fits right in. For some reason though and it may be because she is small and wears bright colors but whenever Kendall is around him he just chews and jumps on her like crazy. We are trying to work on it with him but he is only 7 weeks old so he will grow out of it.

She did manage to get some cuddles in last night while he was tired and she really liked that. He does sleep with Kash every night and usually only gets up about once in the middle of the night to be let out. Potty training has been pretty good. We just watch him and make sure that we take him out a lot. He has had very few accidents in the house.

Happy Tuesday!

M.I.A. for no reason

So I have been MIA for quite some time and i really don't have a reason. Just didn't have much to write about and have been fairly busy getting the new house in order. We are loving our home by the way, it is perfect for us.

Kendall has been a busy little bee. She got her first bike and is learning to ride it. Unfortunately it has been pretty chilly this whole last week so she hasn't got to go out much and ride. This week is supposed to be way nicer so she should get lots of riding time in.

She came and visited me at work the other day. She loves going that. She got to talk to Grandpa on the phone even though his office is literally just 5 ft away, she likes to call and talk to him.

She got to go swimming again, which was a blast. Jason had to work so i took her and came armed with a couple floaties this time. We had to test out her life jacket to make sure she fit in it for when she goes camping and boating over memorial weekend.

And the best part of all of this (aside from finally having our own home), we got a puppy!!! He is so adorable and we love him. More on him tomorrow. I have 3 posts planned out for this week so far and hoping that i will be able to get a couple more things put together so make a whole week of blogging.

Happy Monday!