Giants 1st Game

We had our 1st Tball game last week. It was just before spring had really sprung (that explains all the people under blankets in the photos) and it was a bit cold out still. There was snow in the forecast, it ws supposed to get down to 28 that night and the sky was threatening the entire day, but the weather held off and we were able to get a game in.

The boys did great. We got three legitimate outs at 1st base (that might be more than all last season) and everyone hit fairly well. Jake is enjoying being one of the "veterans" this year and is trying to work with the inexperienced players (sounding WAAAAYY too much like me, talking to him....it's a little freaky). But he continues to progress. He is hitting much better, throws like a champ and is getting better and better at catching the ball. 

We built a minors ballfield down at his school and he likes to go down there and "workout" just he and I. He hits a couple of buckets of balls off the tee, then I hit him a couple of buckets. Last time he caught a pop fly, so he wants to work on that now. The North Boise Little League actually uses the field as well, so we are able to watch some minors games there after we finish up practices which are a lot of fun, because Jake

 knows some of the bigger boys from school, so he has a rooting interest in some fo the games.

It is beautiful here now, it's supposed to be in the 80's this week, so we are trying to make some time to go today and "workout" a little bit, but hopefully the games will be a little less "arctic" from here on out.