Baseball season has officially started. Little league opening day was Saturday and Tyler had his first game. To be honest I was hoping I could keep him in T-ball another year, but the way his birthday fell he aged out and had to move up to rookies with the pitching machine, and I was a little worried he would have trouble with it. Tyler totally surprised me and did awesome at his first game. He got a hit each at bat and only had a couple strikes. His whole team did really well and has come a long way since last year with tee ball. Jake opted to stay with soccer this year and I think that it is a good fit for him because it moves at a little quicker pace.

Took both boys racing today. It was a big race with about 25 kids each class/gate. Jake did very well for his second race on his 65 and Tyler is showing a lot of progress. I think Ty is ready to move up to the bigger 50.

 Ty doing homework

 Mommy sent chocolate donuts for a pre-race breakfast.

 I like this pic with the snow in the back ground. It was 80 degrees at the track!

 FULL GATES!

I'm back from a business trip last week. The boys had a karate test Saturday. We'll see how they did this week. Jake started training with a riding coach today. He has learned a lot to improve his riding form all helping his safety and control of the bike.  

We took a little family ski trip to Big Bear last week. We drove up Thursday evening and stayed at a "rustic cabin in the woods" or as Tyler called it "the shed". Kristin will also attest it was not the nicest cabin but it worked for a couple nights. We had a great day skiing Friday. Although Tyler has gotten much better, I thought he was ready for a harder green... but he was not. I basically had to tackle him before he got too much speed, which he did not appreciate. I spent more time with him on the bunny slopes and he had those mastered by the end of the day. Jake and I finished the day on the terrain park. Jake likes the jumps. Saturday morning, we went snow tubing before we headed back home. Today we got a little riding in at our local track.

 "The Shed"

Just doing our best to stay dry over the weekend. Took the boys to Pump-it-up this morning to burn off some energy after being cooped up in the house all weekend. It stopped raining this afternoon so we took a trip down to the swing.

 Home work time. Jake inherited Kristin's trait of sticking his tongue out when he is concentrating.

 Happy Valentine's Day

 Tyler lost his 3rd tooth.

Tyler had his charity fun run this week. He ran a very impressive 37 laps (1 more than there are mark off spots on his shirt). He raised $389 for his school!! A big thanks to all our family and friends that sponsored him, including Jake who volunteered on his own to support his brother with his own money.

Tyler also had his first baseball practice on Friday. He is on the A's again with much of his same team from last year. They have moved up to rookies so this is the division they start with the pitching machine. He was supposed to have another on Saturday but it got rained out.

Both boys finished up this session of soccer. Jake's team had an awesome playoff game. Jake scored one of their six goals. It went into overtime and then into a shoot-off. Unfortunately, they lost the shoot-off but it was an edge of your seat game. I had a proud Dad moment when one of the other team fell down and Jake ran over to help the player up. All the parents remarked how great his sportsmanship is. Tyler did great in soccer as well and his coach recommended he be moved up in the next level skills class.

We went to the track today and I took my bike as well. We had a lot of fun riding together. Jake really has his 65 dialed in. I took him out on the big track and he was out jumping most of the adults out there including me!

Not many pictures this week. We had the usual week with school, homework, karate and soccer on the weekend. Not much else to report.

Watched the Superbowl at a friend's house who had a cat that actually let the boys pet him.