Blog Drive by

Just a quick post today because our household is crazy busy at the moment and I am catching myself coming back wards, summer hols are in full swing, but I wanted to share one of my favorite websites with you all. Slickdeals is a great site for keeping informed on coupons, deals online and in stores, my family use this site regularly so if you have never heard of slickdeals here is the link and go check it out!

Baseball Clinic for a good cause

This past Sunday Jon and I took the boys to the High School here in Rio Rancho for a Baseball Clinic with the Coaches and players from the State Champion winning baseball team. Not only was this a great opportunity for the boys to experience a new sport (we are a soccer & football household) but we were also going to donate to the Corbin Hayes Memorial Fund. 13 year old Corbin Hayes lost his life recently whilst playing in the Rio Grande River, and as a way for the community to come together the Baseball team hosted a free baseball clinic, we had 11 boys from our Cub Scout pack come and donate, play and learn about baseball.

Now I am first to admit I really don't know a lot about baseball, but the High School team coaches and players put on a fantastic clinic, very well organized and kept the kids interested in all aspects of the sport.

Aaron getting some tips!
Brendan getting some batting tips

Both Brendan and Aaron enjoyed the clinic and we were glad to be able to donate to the memorial fund.

The trauma of going through the car wash!

I have no idea why at the age of 3 and a half that going through a car wash is the most traumatic thing in the world! My eldest did exactly the same thing at 3 and a half, and now Mr Aaron is carrying on the family tradition and freaking out when we go through the car wash. Maybe it is the noise, the unknown, those big scary rollers that seem to be hitting the car and are going to attack in the eyes of a 3 yr old, I just have no clue.

Now I have tried to be the calming force when we go through the car wash, and explain that the car needs a bath and there is nothing to be scared about! Yesterdays trip through the car wash was just hilarious and at the expense of my 3 yr old, I knew what I was going to blog about this morning! After telling him it was okay that the car was just taking a bath like he does, and getting no response but screaming, I proceeded to snap away with the camera on my phone, yes the mean mommy that I am just snapped away, not only for my blog, but as a record so that when the boy is 8 and going through a car wash is so boring I can pull the pictures out and show him that in his eyes when he was 3 the car wash was going to eat him!