Beach Baseball

What do you do the last night on the beach? Have a family game of beach baseball on the sand. All week the men and older boys had been playing but the girls and younger boys wanted a turn. We decided to do boys against girls with the dads splitting up teams.

Within the first few minutes playing, both Brooklyn and Katelyn were crying. Jake smiled and told Kaylee that there was no crying in baseball and that is why they usually didn't let the girls play. Of course, both of them were hit with balls or a bat, but it was still funny to see the difference in the boys and girls.

JD and Austin took the boys while Jake and Josh took the girl team.

Thomas was in charge of Talmage and some of the ones not playing. Of course, Thomas had to bug Hayden, that is his job. I love how hard these two play and laugh together. Makes my heart swell with joy!

The game was fun with the girls scoring one home run after the next, much to the boys dismay.

Thomas loved playing with Talmage.

I think I watched Thomas playing with Talmage more than I watched the game.

Carolyn, Faye, Suzi, Jodi and I just sat and cheered all the kids on.

Carolyn, Faye, Suzi, Rosie, Josh, Steph, Coby with Jodi and me in the front.

One of the funniest moments of the game is when Brooklyn hit the ball head on and did a line drive straight to JD. It completely knocked JD to the ground. We all laughed hysterically while he lay on the ground and moaned in pain. Poor JD.

Coby and Hayden quickly lost interest with the game and decided it was funner to jump waves than field the ball.

My favorite comment from Josh regarding the game was, "We learned two very important things about the Simonton family tonight. First, the girls are better ball players than the boys. And second, most of our younger boys have ADHD. They would rather jump waves than play baseball."

We laughed and laughed because all the younger boys are that way... Hayden, Braden, Coby, Brigham. Oh well, they loved the ocean. The best part about beach baseball is definitely chasing the balls into the ocean.

Afterwards, we had an ice cream party. I could not believe that when we all brought our ice cream together that first of all, we all had gone to Thrifty to buy ice cream. And secondly, is it possible that between four condos that we really had 14 tubs of ice cream? Yes. Us Simonton's, we love our ice cream! Yum yum!

It was definitely a fun way to end the beach vacation! Family togetherness, beach baseball, waffle cones filled with ice cream and sitting around laughing, talking and enjoying each other's company.