National Tourney in Arkansas

Here are the girls checking out the competition.
"Everywhere we go... People wanna know... Who we are... Mighty, Mighty Lady Shock!"

Here the girls are trading pins with the other teams.

Jaycee & Scott -- Jaycee say's, "Mom, quit taking my picture!"

Silly girls! What great poses!!!

Camryn "Bam-Bam" & Jaycee "Dynomite"

Lady Shock May 2009

We drove to Cabot, AR for Softball 8U Nationals Over Memorial Day Weekend. The weekend started off so good! The girls were so excited. The night before we left Coach Melodie gave each of the girls a "goodie bag" to take to AR that all the Mom's had contributed to. They got Lady Shock Flip-Flops, necklaces, bracelets, pens and a CD with all of their songs on it. The CD was really cool... each girl sent Coach Mel their song and she put all of them on a CD in jersey number order. Most of the songs were from Taylor Swift or Miley Cirus -- imagine that with a group of 8 & 9 year old girls! Jaycee and I had gone to i-tunes and searched "baseball songs". She liked, "Hit me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benetar. Her song was actually a hit... the girls were singing it all weekend!

On Saturday morning we had the Opening Ceremonies and Pin Exchange. The girls have pins with their team logo's on them and they trade with the girls on other teams. It's really neat. Jaycee now has pins from OK, AR and TX teams.

The Pool Games started early because they were afraid some rain might start. There was a 20% chance. We did pretty good; lost one, won one. We should have won both of our games though. We were done for the night.

The next morning we woke up to 70% chance of rain in the a.m. But, as the day went on... the rain did not stop! It turned into a low pressure system that just kept circling around Little Rock. Uggh! The girls were having a ball - it was like having a 3 day long slumber party. But, the parents were frustrated. It stunk that we didn't get to play when we had come so far. Not to mention all the money wasted when we had worked so hard on fundraising to go...

They finally cancelled the Tournament early Monday morning. We ended up in 4th place, but had we got to play, I think we would have placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd. The trip home was good. No rain outside of AR... :)

The best part of the whole trip was getting to spend so much time with Jaycee. The boys had gone to Granny & Grandad's, so Scott and I got her all to ourselves. We don't get to do this very often, so it was fun to spoil her a little. She talked our ears off! We found out she "loved" two boys, who her best friends were, all about things going on at school and that she still thinks Scott and I are pretty cool.

Even though it was cold, they couldn't wait to get in the pool!

They are trying to get Jaycee to be silly too...