Baseball and growing up too fast

Baseball is here! I love going to my nephews baseball games. He lives about an hour away and it is hard to always make it to them, but when I do, I enjoy them. They had a night game last night and they WON! 11-4. I was proud of him. He played out field and short stop. When playing short stop the ball bounced and hit him right in the mouth. He was okay though. I just cringed when it happened because he has braces and I thought his braces might have knocked loose as hard as the ball hit him. It didn't happen like that and he just had some bleeding and that was it, no swelling or nothing. I was shocked with the ball hitting so hard. He is one tough 13 year old! He is the smallest boy on the team also. He takes after his mom, who is very skinny and short.

I went over to their house after the game to visit a little bit. We hardly get time together since we live about an hour away from one another and with working and my sister has days off through the week, it is just crazy.

I swear my nephew has grown much taller just since Christmas when I saw him! They grow up so fast. My niece is 17 and graduating next year. It is so hard to believe. She was coming home from a christian music concert at midnight last night. She is such a wonderful girl. If I ever had a daughter or son, I would want them to turn out like my niece and nephew. My sister has done such a great job raising her kids. When my niece walked in the door I hugged her and she told me all about the concert. She also told me she drove alot of her friends home since she is the only one that has a car right now,ha. While talking to her I am rubbing my nephews legs for him and he fell asleep,ha. I just am sitting there on the couch and can't believe how they have grown. I got tears in my eyes on the way home. Boy, I am getting so old,ha. I would do anything to live closer to them. There are no real good jobs where they live and my husband doesn't want to have to drive a long distance to work.

My mom was at the game last night also. It was great to see her as well. I forgot to give her a card for Mother's Day and just gave it to her last night with some scratch offs in the card. She loves those. I am not sure how much she won, because she did not scratch them off last night during the game. She had to work today (Sunday) so she left to go home after the game. She is going to call to tell me what she won. They are fun to scratch off.

I am enjoying this beautiful spring weather. It has been such a gorgious spring. I hope you all are also. Gods creation for us is so amazing! When traveling up to where my sister lives last night, they have lots of farm land and open spaces. It is so pretty to drive to her house. I love the drive. I was thinking about how God did such a great job with our place we live in. I think often of his amazing works and how much of a genius our Lord really is. We are all blessed to live in such a glorious place. Taking the time to really look at everything around you, it truly is such a blessing.

Have a great week everyone.

Love, Shellie