I had to share a few quick pics from the ACA Middle School game a couple of days ago. Lance has been helping with the pitchers. Erik Smallwood, Lance's great friend from college, is the head coach. It's so neat to watch them coach together. It's neat to see where things end up. Home is a good place right now. Above, you see LJ spitting sunflower seeds. (He actually grabs a handful, chews them to smithereens then just spits...) He thinks he's so big :)

Below, a meeting on the mound when the game wasn't going so well, and the bat boy working hard with his dad watching on, (the final pic) :) Hope you enjoy the pics! More to come soon!

Life is good at the Cormier House! Spring has sprung, and we are all beginning to fall into a good routine here at home. Lance is enjoying the occasional meeting, working out hard and helping with baseball at a local middle school. I have a bit of a hip and back issue that's slowing me down physically, but I'm finding there's always something special to do now that we are home! Whether it's working on photography stuff or playing with my sweet little family, life is full and good. LJ is doing great! He's excelling in school and is reading so well! He loves his class, and we've decided to keep him there for his kindergarten year. We even have our hummingbird back. I've been trying to catch a shot of her, but this is all I got:

As far as T-ball goes, it continues to be a blast! Sports are a great teacher. They teach social graces, encouragement, acceptance (of your faults and others), and lots of great physical coordination. LJ is having so much fun! He maintains his intensity, but has grown up enough to know that he can't be perfect every time. It's always good to learn to give one's self a break, right :)

We have also had the opportunity to get pictures of him with everyone who loves him most! His mom & dad, Me-Maw, Nana & Pops, and Doris & Jackson!

So, that's us for now! I'll check in soon with an update and some new pictures, (of course!) I hope your week has been wonderful!!

Spring has sprung!

The Cormier fam is out and working in the yard :) We have never been here for spring, so we might be going a bit overboard. We planted annuals all through the front yard flower beds. This isn't a big risk in most places, but here in our yard, the soil is like clay and it's filled with rocks. But before you can even get to the cement-like clay, you have to first go through a layer of roots/weeds that looks like crazy red-ish/purple hair. So, I did the best I could and tilled the land. I brought in some soil and put compost (mushroom from the bag mixed with pulp from our juicer - it seemed like the right thing to do?) I dug about 3 inches deep and replaced the soil with that little combo. I hope it works! If not, our yard will be pretty for about a week! Come visit quickly just in case!

You can see above that LJ decided we needed a little raspberry crop. I'll keep you posted on that one, too :)

Here's the first bloom from our knockout roses - the bush was given to me by my sister a few years ago, and it looks like it survived our neglect through the baseball seasons!