two day pass

we kicked off the weekend with one last baseball game...one last because our team did not win.
they could have if just for a couple more hits.
they played the #1 team and they played their fans proud.
the final score was 6-8.
in the previous 3 games the other team played in the tournament, they only gave up a total of 4 runs and then they run ruled every team so let's just say we saw them sweat in the 6 innings played.
now they are headed to state.
and just like that the season is really over.
there will be no more baseball.
well, not until fall ball starts in september.
oh and football starts in a week.
the boys drowned their sorrows in a teammate's hot tub during a spontaneous post party...actually they were all laughing and having fun.
so were their parents.

suddenly saturday was wide open and we almost didn't know what to do with a free and clear calendar.
i said almost.
t. bone still wasn't home from the previous night's sleepover and miss bit was partying with her friends in honor of a classmate's birthday so me and my man committed to a 6 miler in the heat of the hot day.
no breeze, not enough water, numerous deer and even a fawn later and we made it home.
home to supervise squirt gun fights, runs through the sprinkler and games of wiffle in between games of gin with the cats lounging on the patio at our feet so happy to be out in the aire libre after being cooped up all week.
there were orange slushies for the littles and cold cocktails for the adults.
hubby fired up the grill for some ribs and steak served with roasted fingerling potatoes, olive cheese bread, asparagus and fresh pineapple.
we may not have actually served dinner until 9:00 so the littles were just a little famished and there weren't many leftovers.
t. bone's friend spent the night and miss bit slept in her own bed for the first time in the few nights she spent at camp grandma grandpa.

sunday was pancakes and bacon with fresh cantaloupe and raspberries, a 5 mile walk that was nowhere near as oppressive as the prior day's, an invitation to the zoo for miss bit, a refreshing swim at grandma and grandpa's for the 3 boys, time to bake a banana cake, read and nap for me, croquet at my brother and sil's followed by a yummy dinner, too late to bed.