jetBlue Softball Tourney 09'

The Jetblue Softball Tournament this weekend was a BLAST! It started out bright and early Saturday morning with our first game against the JFK Tech ops/Materials Team. Unlike last years tournament where we lost all three games in a row, we actually WON! After about an hour break we had our next game against the Ft. Lauderdale Pilots. Once again,...we WON! Finally it was time for a break where we grilled some hot dogs, burgers and of course drink a few cold ones. It was almost time for us to start packing up the grill and head back to the field when the thunder started to roll in and the lightning detection system went off. We patietnly waited for about three hours when the decision was made to call off all the games for the rest of the night and try again tomorrow. Sundays games started nice and early too since we had to play our third bracket game. Our third game in the bracket was against the JFK Inflight Team and if you can believe it we actually went undefeated. We received a nice trophy to hang in our breakroom in West Palm Beach. Now that we made it ito the winners bracket of the tournament it was time to play the real tough teams. Our First game was against the team that came all the way from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The San Juan team has gone deep into the tournament the past few years, so we knew we had a tough game ahead. San Juan always brings a great cheering section with drums, horns and loud chants. It was our cheering section led by my beautiful fiance that kept us in the game. It came down to the bottom of the last inning and we had the winning run in scoring position, unfortunatley we could not come through and we lost a heartbreaker by just one run! Our next game was a must win for us since it was a double elimination tournament and we found out we were playing our good friends on the Ft. Lauderdale team. A few of the players on the FLL Team play on our Thursday night league team, so we knew we would have another tough game. Sadly, the FLL team was on a winning streak coming into our game and they were able to keep their streak alive with a tough win against us. It was a fun game and a fun two days in the sun, but boy did it feel good to get into bed...We slept great last night!

Dad & Julie's Pig Roast 09'

The annual Pig Roast was September 12, 09 this year. It's the wee hours of the morning and the sun is rising....the fire is still smoking and I see beer bottles and Red cups all over the grass. I see a random car here and there, wondering who spent the night? And here I am Blogging. I'm sad Tommy couldn't make it this year but we have plenty of Pig Roast years to look forward to. I was SO happy to see Rachael, Theresa and Christina!!! We had so much catching up to do. Theresa's baby Luca is the happiest kid in the world, but i would be too if i had amazing parents like Theresa and Jim :) He was dancing to the band with a HUGE smile on his face, it was SO cute! You can't help but smile when you see this adorable little cutie. I hope I get to see more of Luca because know I'm a Luca addict. And I'm so excited for Theresa and Jim because they're PREGNANT! Luca is going to have a little brother or sister, YAY! Christina and Aaron came with Rory who is the spitting image of the mix of them, SO CUTE! His hair is so blond it's almost white, he screams IRISH! I was so excited to meet him, he was so good! he was so well behaved! My friends all seem to have the Cutest kids, I can't wait to see more of Rory & Luca! i was so excited to spend time with all these girls, they have been such big parts of my life and I miss them all so much. I hope to see them all again before I leave to go back home! The food, OMG there was SO much food, it was incredible, and SO yummy! my drink of choice was "I love my goat" from the Bully hill winery, my new favorite! There were games of horse shoes, jello shots, 4 wheeler rides, pigs, a band, and just a whole lot of fun! James took me out on his new 4 wheeler, he scared the crap out of me, I was screaming like a little girl and i sware it only made him go faster! overall I had a blast, looking forward to some leftovers! I hear some commotion in the living room, I think my dad is awake...Time for the fun part, CLEAN UP!