Baseball Season Comes To A Close
June 17, 2008
Well, its been a good, long, hard ride, but Sean’s baseball season has come to a close. The boys had a great year, finishing the season with a very nice record of 15 – 2. If you ask the kids, they will say it was 15 – 1 since they don’t count the loss to the State traveling team, but I do.
They were supposed to have had one last game on Friday, but neither team could come up with enough players, so the game was canceled. With school out and what not, a lot of families have already gone on some Summer vacations.
They do have the State tournament coming up at the end of the month, but unfortunately, Sean and the rest of the team will not be able to participate. The state moved their tournament up a week, so all the local tournaments are also moved up a week. Several of the boys, including Sean, will be out of town the week the tournament starts which leaves the team short of the required 9 players. We will be attending a family reunion. While Sean would have loved to compete in the tournament, I think he is happy to put the season behind him and would rather visit his cousins that he doesn’t get to see enough.
The team officially concluded its season tonight with a big pool party. The boys had lots of fun and got to go crazy. After their rough opening season loss by a score of 7 – 0, the season looked long. They turned it around quickly and definitely earned the pool party tonight.
We did receive some sad news this past weekend. The son of the President of our baseball association was killed in a car accident. He was only 19 years old and playing football for Eastern Arizona University. He was also involved very much with our kids football program, serving as an assistant coach on Sean’s football team two years ago. He even umpired a few games of baseball this past season. We will be attending a memorial for him this coming Saturday.
Now, we get get ready for football season. I think Sean is still planning on moving up an age group above his so that he can play with his friends if the league will let him play up a year. He has a late birthday, which puts him in a younger age bracket. Practice starts in August.
Summer Dance Recital
June 8, 2008
This weekend was the annual Summer dance recital for Suzanne and the kids and their Alma Dolores International Dance Studio. This is a two night performance of the all the kids and adults that have been working on dances since the end of the year show.
The first night is usually a fun, high energy performance where they pick some musical or theme and have small and large groups performing. Friday night, the theme was Dora the Explorer for the little kids (8 and under) and then Hair Spray for the older dancers.
Its a pretty long show at about 2 1/2 hours. I always get to sit in the audience by myself since everyone else is dancing. I love to watch the kids dance but I do get tired of the four year olds that kind of just stand there. Its great for their parents and family – I was there at one point. As usual the kids and Suzanne did great.
The second night is a more artistic night. You get the ballet, lyrical and contemporary type dancing. This year, they did the dances to the music of Cirque de Solei. They also added in the international dances (Irish, Mexican, Spanish, Middle East, etc) and they use appropriate music.
The second night was again about 2 1/2 hours and the kids did great. Sean had the Irish hard shoe going good and Savannah really got into her hip hop routine. I still think hip hop is her strongest dance genre, but Suzanne keeps pushing the other stuff. She really enjoys the Mexican folklorico and Spanish Flamenco dancing too. Sean had limited dances this year because most of his time was spent with his 14 – 2 baseball team. He may try to sneak in a few more classes (like hip hop and break dancing) this summer, but football season is rapidly approaching.
I had hoped to post some pictures of the dance recital, but on the first night Suzanne had the camera set up wrong for the first half (yes, I should have checked her settings), plus I forgot the tripod which is really needed for the darkness of the theater. Then, I forgot the camera on the second night. Oh well, no pictures this year.
Next up for the dancers is the Showstopper National Dance Competition in Anaheim this coming July. Due to the all the vacations we are taking this year (Pechuls reunion in Mar, Klasen reunion in June, Grandmother’s 90th birthday in August, and our cruise in November), I will not be attending the competition.
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