World Series 2011

I decided that I better blog about this because if I don't, I will look back later and wonder why I didn't. Crazy, I know. Grace's select softball team from Katy was pretty good. When we were the 8U Katy Cobras, they won the Texas State Championship and we went to the World Series as an 8U team. Now that they all had birthdays and made the jump to 10U, we didn't know how good they would be...well, they were good enough to go to the USFA World Series and do great!! :) Grace pitched a no-hitter in our first bracket game and loved playing in Panama City. Here are a few pictures from our trip. The girls wrote out, Cobra's 01 in the sand..the letters were about 8 feet tall and you could see them from our 25th story window of our condo! :) They filled in the sand with seaweed. There was a ton of it in the water and on the beach this year.

We had a condo right on the beach this year that saved us money in the eating department, but we had to have one meal at Jimmy Buffett's place.  Nothing like a Cheeseburger in Paradise!! Grace had just pitched a great game in the picture and was so excited with the treat of going out for lunch to celebrate.

Grace doing her thing that she loves the very most....

This is her stance while she is waiting on a sign from her catcher...it's pretty funny to watch her expressions through the mask. And yes, my child wears a mask. Those kids can hit the ball...HARD!!

At this at bat, Grace hit a triple that cleared the full bases!! 3 RBI's and a triple....we won this game 7 to 3. Pretty proud...but of course, I would have been fine with her striking out 3 times in a row.  Regardless of what happens on the field, Grace is a supreme winner in my book with her attitude and actions off the field.  So very proud of her.  Always.

 It rained on and off one game...all the littles (brothers and sisters) stayed under the tent and played their Nintendos.  They all got along so well...it honestly was like we had our own big Cobra family.

This was their last huddle, after their loss in overtime in a game that they had won until that last overtime. We found out before this game that we were getting transferred. I was pretty upset to leave this team of family.

The loss was heartbreaking, but a such a blessing.  The rain started after that game....and didn't stop for 5 days.  Teams from all over the US sat around and waited for it to stop.  For 3 days....and then they cancelled the rest of the tournament.  That could have been us, had we won that game.  We were blessed. Some people were upset that we lost.  There were some bad calls.  The girls were winning the whole game....until that last 30 seconds and we didn't call time out.  We could have called time and stretched out the game and then won.  Our coach was doing other things and didn't call time out.  The Tennessee team got another inning and they took over and tied the game.  Overtime was horrible to watch.  The girls were tired and done.

Grace and our family left it on the field and were so thankful for the experience to get to play and win (and even have a no-hitter!) in the World Series.  Many teams sat and waited for rain to stop...it did.  5 days later.  Some families were out a ton of money with no real ending to the tourney.  We, on the other hand, were on our way to Ft. Worth to hunt for our new home and start another beginning in our lives. 

We miss our Cobra family so much.  We played with them, almost every weekend for 2 years.  That's a lot of family time and a ton of softball.  But, there will be other teams and Grace will play great wherever.  And if she doesn't want to play softball....I'm great with that, too.  God lead us where you want us to go and we will follow....now, can we have some of that rain that we saw back in Florida this summer? :)

We are thankful for that rain and another new beginning in our lives.