First Turn 2 Tournament

Grace played all spring and summer (April to mid July) on a All-Star team for the Katy Cobras. We loved it. It was a wonderful experience all around for the whole family and for Grace, as far as softball goes. They won the 8U State Championships, she has 2 new trophy shelves in her room full of trophies (they placed in EVERY tournament that they played in...Amazing), and they got to play in the World Series in Panama City, Florida. Loved it.

Even in the heat of the summer, those little girls were troopers and kept on playing. It was so much fun and we loved the girls and the parents. Of course, we should have loved them. We were together, every weekend for 14 weeks so we all really became pretty close. After the World Series was over, our coach and his sweet wife (he is retired) hopped in their RV and took off for Colorado. We think they will be back in October. He told the girls to go on and play whatever sports they wanted in the fall and we will all talk later about our team. So....that left us wondering. What to do this fall??? Grace took (and is taking) pitching lessons to be a pitcher in 10U ball. Did I mention that she has to move up? Yeah. It's a huge step from 8U to 10U. So, her coach told her to just play rec ball and work on her pitching. Well...we got a phone call that a 10U team was having try outs and Grace was invited to try out for the Texas Turn 2 10U team. Well...you know Grace. She made the team. So, here are some pics from our first tournament this past weekend!!

Grace is #1 when they wear their white uniforms...she looks so big now to me!! 

Their team won second place in the "Back to School Bash" tournament in Splendora. This team only has 10 girls on it. You can only play 9 girls on the field in 10U ball. There are a ton of new rules and things to get used to in this step up, but the girls are taking it in stride. Grace scored in EVERY game we played this weekend. That is huge!! She only got one hit (only 3 girls got hits all weekend) but she walked on every time that she batted! Good eye, Grace!! It helps that she is left-handed and the girls this age have a hard time pitching to left handed batters!! :) Grace is on the bottom left and Aaron is helping coach so he is in the pictures now, too!!

She had a great time! We have this weekend off and then we are back at Splendora for another tourney on Labor Day weekend. It's nice to not have a tournament every weekend. With this select team that we are on, they only play 2 tourneys a month!! Yippe! Grace gets to play and then we get a few weekends as just a family at home.

This is Grace and one of her best buddies, Kylie. She and Kylie played together last fall and then this past spring in rec ball with Katy Girls Softball. She is also a redhead and they have so much fun together. We are thankful for good friends on the team like Kylie. She is also playing on this team with 2 other of the girls that played with us on our summer All-Star team...Chloe and Morgan. Again...so very thankful for our good softball friends!!