World Series...Part 1

 Evan's baseball team made it to the World Series!!!  I had mixed feelings going into it, just because it would mean that we would spend close to a week in Tulsa.  Plus, the boys were leaving for their big trip with Nonnie & Poppy the day before the tournament ended.  But, Evan was super excited about it, so we jumped in!

I had to pack the boys for their 2 week trip before we left for Tulsa.  Then I had to pack all of us for 5 days in Tulsa, plus Travis and I had to pack for Kansas City.  Talk about stressful!!!  But, we got it done, loaded up, and headed out EARLY Saturday morning.  

My guys not looking too awake yet;)

 Evan had to check in at 10:00 Saturday morning.  The whole team had to be together in uniform to be interviewed.  Ev was nervous but it went great!  We had the rest of the morning/afternoon to relax.

 The opening ceremonies were that evening. All the teams were together out on the field.  It was pretty cool!

The team with their banner!

 The team ready to get this thing started!!

 All the boys had towels and trading pins.  They all traded pins with other teams.  It was really cool!  Then we had a BBQ dinner there at the ball fields.  After that there were several skills competitions.  It was a fun, but long night!

 The next day we were ready to play!!  Even Beau was pumped!!

 Nana, Trisha, Malory, Alan, and Austin came too!!  Here were the boys trying to stay cool before a game.

 Beau's friends, Lilly and CJ were their all week too.  It was fun to have other kids to play with.

 This is a happy boy after winning both of their pool games!!!

 I love this, Beau is carrying Harry Potter for Blake.  It's as big as he is! Ha!

 We did a little (LOT) of swimming at the hotel.  Evan wasn't allowed to swim, but his coach decided to let them have 30 minutes of swim time, so he was happy:)  Beau had on ALL the goggles!!

 This was fun to see after the pool play games were finished!  River Valley Bulldogs had best scoring and best differential!

 Nana, Trisha, and Malory stayed the whole week with us.  Beau and Malory love each other so much and Malory takes really good care of Beau!  One morning they were watching them clean the pool.  Fun stuff!

 Ev had a little homework to do while we were there.  Nonnie had made a Map Quest "quiz" for he and Blake to do before the trip.  It was just to get them familiar with the places that they would be going.  Blake had done his before we left.  Ev took it very seriously and took good notes before he submitted his answers:)

 The 2nd day of game play the boys only had to play 1 game since they had won their pool.  That was nice!!  Roger tagged along to most of the games.  He kind of became a "mascot" :)

 Evan up to bat!!

 Beau and Roger just hanging out!  Nana brought LOTS of snacks and drinks.  Thank goodness!!  It kept us all, especially Beau, very happy!!

 The official photographer got some really good pics of Evan.  These are obviously just pictures of the actual pictures, but good anyway!

 Beau, Malory, and Aunt Trisha cheering on the Bulldogs!

 The first couple of days were nice.  The boys had won all of their games so far, and they were playing absolutely awesome!  Evan had had some trouble hitting the ball, but had worked REALLY hard going into the tournament.  Let me just say....he peaked at the perfect time!!  He was hitting the ball like never before!!!