My Allstar!

Words cannot even begin to describe how proud I am of Hayden, she has really become a great softball player and I LOVE going to practices and games to watch her!  We have pretty much spent the last month at the softball field, every night and every weekend and I wouldn't trade it for anything.  She has learned so much and even wants to play in the yard with me, yeah me, not sure why...I have no experience but I get out there and throw, catch and pitch to her.  She loves it, and it does help her improve, the way I see it is if she can hit my pitches, she should be able to hit anything.  I love watching her be excited about something and the way she swings the bat is amazing, she has got to have the strongest arms of any girl I know! 

Last night was a very important game to our team, and we won.  The score was 18-17, it was a close one.  In fact I got so excited I almost passed out, that will teach me to eat better on game days!  She did amazing, half of the team has to hit off the coach and half of them get 3 pitches and two tries off the T.  Well Hayden has been a T hitter for the last four games, but she has only used it one time due to a bad pitch from the coach, she usually hits either the first or second pitch!  Which makes us very happy!  Last night she was picked to be a coach pitch, which means that she gets 5 pitches but if she strikes out on all 5 it is an out!  I was so excited but have to admit a little nervous too, it is so hard to explain!  Needless to say my little Allstar did just fine, the first time at bat, she didn't hit it very far but the girls on the other team had to struggle to get it so she made it to first base with no problem.  The second time she bat, she hit the 2nd pitch and it went pretty much to first base but it was going to fast for them to get so she got a Double!  The last time she batted was a crucial moment, our team was down by 7 runs and it was the last inning and here comes my baby.  She hits the second pitch and boy does she hit it!  It goes between first and second base into the outfield!  Talk about some cheering!!!!  With that hit she also got in two of our runners!!!  Sometimes I don't even think she knows how amazing she is! 

She played in the outfield and boy she got after the ball last night to.  She even slid trying to catch it one time, I guess my reminder to get after the ball stuck in her head last night.  She got two other plays in her position and made the prettiest throws ever to second base and our second baseman caught them.  They looked like professionals!  I felt extremely proud when Aunt Kim heard some parent way behind us ask "who is that in the outfield, that girl has an arm!"  I love it!  She does have an amazing arm, in fact she threw some to me yesterday and I just moved out of the way it was coming so fast, like I have said before I have no experience and no intention of being hit in the face!   She laughs when I do that and tells me to catch the ball Mommy! 

Thank you to Aunt Linda for coming to watch Gracie and Colton since it was such a late game, you have no idea how much we appreciate it!!!!

It was a great game and now we play again on Friday night at 8pm in Buford and if we win that we could possibly play up to 3 games on Saturday!  Then our Allstar tournament will be complete and we will have to wait until August to start Soccer!

For some reason the video from here doesn't look as good as the one on facebook, sorry but wanted everyone to hear how the whole team and parents were cheering her on and how she hit that ball!