Oh yes we did!

I just love this time of the year! The weather can be so beautiful. Not too hot, not too cold, most days. I also love this time of year because it brings back soooo many memories of my youth.

Softball was my addiction from the age of 3 up until the age of 22. I played every year at a community center that was in walking distance from my house. We would just cut through ours and the neighbor's pasture. And there it was, the reason for my existences. It made me giddy to see the fields, smell the fresh cut grass and grill cooking hamburgers. I spent countless hours at those fields. I shed blood, sweat and tears on those fields. Made some of the best friends a girl could ask for at those fields. I can't even begin to tell how much money I collected over the years standing at the gate. I sold countless cokes and candy bars there too. That is where Josh and I first sat together in his mom car listening to the radio. I fell for him right then, but shortly there after he broke my heart by hugging another girl. Several years later that is where he had planned on asking me to marry him, out on the pitcher's mound. We lost the game that night and he said he just didn't feel it going right there. Instead he waited the whole 2 minutes it took to get back to my parent's house and he asked me out in the driveway. I will forever hold a special place in my heart for that community center. I just can't believe how fast time has gone by.

Now I have a daughter. I want her to have the same warm memories of playing ball. I have never wanted to coach a team before. I fear all the headaches that my mom and dad endured over the years being our coach. I witnessed it first hand, the anger from the parents when my parents didn't do what they thought best for their child. If you know me at all, you know I do not like confrontation. I prefer to avoid it all cost. This is what has kept me from coaching. My daughter played All-Stars last year and it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I ranted on and on to my mother. Her only words to me were, "you can't say to much because you are not the coach and you are not the one in charge. If you want to change something then coach your own team." Josh and I went back and forth with the idea over the winter and we decided to bite the bullet and just do it! Oh yes we did! We are doing it, coaching Kalan's softball team that is.

We have been through the draft. Thank goodness. I stress about everything! We have had our first parent meeting and practice. Everything went extremely well. Almost too good to be true.

We have a team name: AFTERSHOCK

We have a uniform: Lime Green/Black/White

Josh's only request was not to have hot pink uniforms. All I have to say is he is luck that they didn't have the hot pink because I know he would have looked super hot in it.

We actually had our second practice yesterday. So far things are looking pretty good. I hope that all of the girls have a great time!