High School Baseball

In the blink of an eye, Matthew went from the pony league to junior varsity high school baseball this month. He culminated from Millikan a few weeks ago, and the next day got invited to play on his high school’s summer team. At yesterday’s game against La Crescenta (beautiful field!) he got to pitch and then made his first solid hit. It was a beautiful afternoon.

Matthew's BB Game

Matthew got his hero’s moment this last Monday, in his Toluca Dodger BB team’s first tournament game. They were playing another Toluca team that had previously beaten them pretty soundly, not once but twice. This game begins with the Dodgers chasing the other in runs, always a bit behind. At the end of inning six, we were down 8-9. The other coach wanted to call time, but it was decided to play one last inning. After the other team didn't score, the Dodgers were up with two outs, and the bases loaded. So Matt comes up, swings and misses once, and then BAM, hits a pop fly to the right of the outfielder. It drops to score a double and the Toluca Dodgers win the game! Too cool for words! Check out the video to see the last minute of the inning.

Mother’s Day 2010

Happy Mother’s Day Mom. Here’s one of my favorite photos of you with Kurt way back in the beginning of your mothering days. One down, four to go, and nobody did it better than you! Hope you have a terrific day. Love, Kathy

Santa Susanna Baseball Game

Matthew's Toluca Dodger team had a very interesting game yesterday. After struggling pretty badly in the first inning (can you say down 11 to 1?) the coach told them to picture the next inning as starting a brand new game. Matthew came in to pitch and he had 4 amazing innings with only 1 hit, and striking out one of the other teams monster hitters. It was really fun to watch all the kids go from being glum to walking off the field with an 11-2 loss, but being proud of their efforts. Yay baseball!

Apt. #307 in Studio City, CA

Hi Mom and Dad, just found these photos of our new apt. before we moved in over a year ago. Thought you might like to see them. Think I said I would send you these about a year ago. Oh well...

The main room, where my office is set up now. The kitchen is to the left. Steve's office is up in the loft.

 The rest of the main room, leaving off to the balcony.

My kitchen. Not crazy about the fake cabinets, but love the window!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy 75th birthday dad, I hope you have a terrific day. I'm still playing around with our old family photos, and came up with this version of a picture of you and Kurt on what must be one of your very first John Deere tractors. Hope it brings back some happy memories!

At the Santa Monica Pier

You wouldn't know this, but this picture says a lot. Some leftover birthday passes to Santa Monica Pier left Matthew with the option of inviting three friends to hang out with for the day. Two boys were invited, and one girl, Catalina. Very nice and very sweet, but a first for all of us, I think. This picture of the four kids way in the background to the right of the yellow pole comes from me remembering at the last minute that I had brought my camera, but didn't want to embarrass my kid by calling them back for a photo. Oh well. What's that saying, "they grow up so fast" or something like that.