take me out to the ballgame

so as most of you know, nathan is in his 3rd year coaching 11/12 year old baseball and he's like a little celebrity which kind of makes me laugh. it is neat though to see boys come up and joke back and forth with nate about all kinds of things from the "real cubs" to them making fun of nathan and his khaki "frat shorts". haha. over the past two seasons we have gotten the opportunity to get to know some great kids and their families. this year is no different. nate has some great boys with some really fun parents! (which makes things enjoyable for me since i sit with them during the games)


i was off saturday so i got a FULL day in at the park. haha. while at the park saturday i learned a few things about both of us...


as i was curled up "indian style" in my red chair i realized i am even more ocd than i thought...this is my first year keeping THE BOOK. i learned after my first night to always bring a pencil since i am a rookie. as i sat there saturday keeping the stats i had to flip to the previous game and realized i had been marking balls and strikes with dots instead of slashes...to any person with a "touch" of ocd like myself you know that this really irritated me. haha. lame i know but i seriously thought about re-copying them on a clean page to keep it all the same. then i saw this mom herding her two kids to another field. she was carrying one, encouraging another one to come on, hauling a chair, her purse, and a diaper bag, (and she still looked cute, put together, and CALM). that's when i realized that would probably be me one day. and that's when i decided...NO. i will not re-copy all the stats so they all match just to appease my tad bit of ocd. i need to start breaking myself of it now because one day, i won't have time to care.


some people ask me why i go sit up there and watch a bunch of kids that aren't mine play a baseball game. i enjoy going for a three reasons. #1-i do have fun watching the boys play. i love seeing the kids do well and learn something even when they don't. #2 i absolutely love watching my husband with those boys! he gets so wound up sometimes that i have to bring him back to reality and remind him that they are 11 and 12 year old boys. but he gets wound up because he loves it. it makes me so proud of him to see the way he encourages them and believes in them. this saturday it was especially fun to see him push some guys that normally don't like to steal to push themselves to do it. it was so cool seeing them push from 3rd to home and being so pumped about sliding! ok so i've rambled a lot but haven't explained the real reason it brings me so much joy to watch him coach...i love all the kids don't get me wrong but i cant help but sometimes think about when our son is out their playing. nathan coaches kids he doesn't have any real tie to with so much heart and enthusiasm i can't even imagine what it will be like when we have our own. it makes me realize that even though we aren't ready to take that step in starting our own family yet i know we are getting great practice for when that day does come.


i forgot #3...Cheese Fries!

finally gave in...

so, i've been contemplating becoming a blogger for a while now...the only thing that has been holding me back is the fact that i don't see our everyday life as SUPER interesting. however, i have noticed that people laugh a lot at all of the funny things that happen to us. then, the more i thought about it, the more i realized how much we've learned since we left the hoover met around 9 o'clock on june 12, 2010. 


it's hard to believe we've almost been married 2 years! like i said before, we've learned so much about each other, about living together, and about GOD's amazing plan for us. this sounds super goofy and ever so slightly nerdy but i learned a lot tonight while watching "the newlywed game". i know...bear with me. i realized that all newlyweds have tons of fun times, a few awkward moments, and learn some hard lessons pretty early on in their marriages. i've decided this blog is going to be about all of the things that nate and i have learned and continue to learn. who knows...maybe you will be able to relate. maybe not. but i can pretty much guarantee a good laugh.