Baseball Day 1

Day 1 is over and I am still healthy. Easy day with some instruction, games start Tuesday. Two games a day so should be fun.
I have noticed a few things already:
1-Saying "its a high sky" is something I am not sure really needs to be said.
2-Hitting a baseball once every 20 years does not improve your skills but it also doesn't decrease your skills. I can hit as well now as I did 20 years ago, which is not good.
3-Its much easier to field a ground ball on a major league field than it is at Robbie Jones Field in Olathe.
4-Is hitting .800 at fantasy camp really something to brag about?
5-Like I have been telling Coach Fields for 20 years, he played me out of position for 4 years.

More pictures may be on the way tomorrow.

Baseball & Sun

Getting ready to celebrate my 40th birthday present from Donna here in Phoenix. Should be a good time at Kansas City Royals Fantasy Baseball Camp. Hopefully I can walk at the end of the day because its just Monday, and it goes all week. Planning on lots of fun and soreness.
Thanks Donna. Love you and the boys.

Jack's Birthday

My "boys" on Lance's birthday and Jack at his 5th birthday party.

We recently celebrated Jack's fifth birthday. He had a great time with all the presents spanned over the last few days (as his birthday was 1/6, grandma Merker's presents came 1/7, grandma Duddles presents came on 1/8 and then his party was 1/9). I hope he doesn't think birthday's always include 4 days of presents!

He had a great time I think though. I was lucky enough to be not working this week so we took him to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch on his birthday and then had all of his cousins over yesterday for dinner, cake and on to Bounce Meridian (a location with indoor bounce houses and slides).

Lance had a nice birthday as well (his 41st!!) at least I think he did (you would have to ask him to be sure). He is looking forward to his 40th birthday present (which was delayed a year because of the arrival of Trey). He is going to Phoenix, AZ to participate in the Royals Fantasy camp. There, he will get to live out his dreams of becoming a major-league baseball player for the Royals, and actually get to meet and play with some of the old retired Royals players, including George Brett. I am excited as well as I will accompany him for the last weekend of it in warm sunny Arizona!

Not much else to post, so far am doing good on one of my resolutions, which is to post a blog every month! Let us know if you are still out there and following us by becoming a "follower" of my blog. Have a great January all!

It has been a blessed and eventful year for the Beeson family. We have moved twice and finally ended up back home in Meridian, ID where Lance and I grew up. It is sooooo nice to be back too! We love it! I am so happy at my new job at Saint Luke's Health system in Boise, ID. It is very much like my old job at the other Saint Luke's in Kansas City that i loved (and still wish sometimes i had never left!). Everyone here is so nice and helpful, I feel like a valued member of a great team instead of some one's scut monkey intern (like I was treated at Kadlec hospital in Richland, WA)and it has been such a welcome change!!

Lance got back into coaching at Kuna High School with a friend from MNU if you can believe it! They didn't have a very good season (1-8) but he had a good time back in charge of the offense as the OC (offense coordinator) despite their frustrations. he thinks they might have another long year next year but anticipates a good group of kids coming along in a couple of years.

The boys have been busy since the move as well. RJ is in second grade with a male teacher (who he loves, he even wrote a paper about how he wanted to change his name to Armando, his teacher's name! So cute!). Jack is in preschool and had a Christmas program the other day singing Christmas songs, it was so cute! I will try and place that video on facebook. he is going 3 days a week and getting ready for Kindergarten next year. Trey's adoption was finalized right before the move, but we still have to go to L.A. to the Thai Embassy to check off one last piece of paper (and spend another $2000!) then its a circumscison (another $5000) and we should be done with all the adoption costs and be back on a level playing field I hope (where we just have college tuition to look forward to!). He is learning to go poopy in the potty which keeps him and daddy quite busy! He has also learned to speak English much quicker than the other two boys (probably because he has to yell at his big brothers!)

The Lord has truly blessed us all so much, we couldn't be more thankful for our three little beautiful boys, our wonderful families, my good job and all our friends. Thank you all for being a part of our lives and we wish you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful, blessed new year!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Halloween Pictures

Fall 2010

Oh my goodness! Has it really been 5 months since I published anything on my blog? Shame on me, and I vowed to keep this up to date after my last post. I apologize (that is if there is anyone out there still checking!).

We have had a busy 5months. In those 5 months we have moved twice, once into a rental in Kennewick, WA after we sold our house in 1 day, and then again here to our permanent home in Meridian,ID. It is actually truly "back home" for Lance and I since we grew up here. Although his family has since moved on, all of my family is still here and we live smack down in the middle of them! I am probably within 8 miles if not closer from all three sisters and my parents. It is great for me, I get to see my sisters and parents all the time, the boys get to play with their cousins all the time and I am truly enjoying life for the first time since we left Kansas City I think. I have a running partner in my sister now, and although she was really tied up during her soccer season, we have still been able to get long runs in on my off weeks and usually get at least one trail run in during my on weeks. There are so many great trails here in the Boise area it has been fun to start branching out my running into the hills (although much harder work!). I am sure with the winter coming up it will definitely curb our evening runs in the hills but I hope not our bi-weekly long runs which I still enjoy despite the fact that I haven't run a race since July (and that was only a half-marathon).
The kids are really enjoying it here I think too. RJ has settled into school very well, he likes his first male teacher, Mr. Barrera. He is also getting geared up for upwards basketball that starts this winter. He has made several new friends in the neighborhood which will make this spring and summer much better I am sure. Jack is getting settled in pre-school and although he struggling with writing his name or learning his letters, he is having a good time, and that's what pre-school is about right?
Trey is settled in here as well. He had one bad asthma attack that landed him in the hospital, luckily 2 days after our insurance kicked in!

I am thoroughly enjoying my job here in Boise as well. I am back at a hospital much like the one I left in Kansas City and I can see myself staying here for the rest of my career at last! Not planning any more moves, although as I tell RJ I can't promise that as I never know what the Lord has in store for us or where He will take us. All I know is that He has truly blessed us and given me more than I deserve that is for sure! I am the luckiest mommy ever to be able to bring up these 3 little boys, and I try to remember that (especially when they are whining and crying in my ear when I am trying to blog such as now for something as silly as Trey taking Jack's chair to eat his dinner!!!). Stay tuned, I once again vow to keep more up to date, although we will see how much better I do. !!