A Fun Night Off

We had a fun at dinner tonight. This was one of the few nights that we all got to sit around the table together with time after dinner to play games. We would usually be at the ball field ;). (I am not complaining. I was just telling dad about how much I love our life at the ball field everyday. It’s amazing.) 

It started when Nathan and Dad were joking around during dinner. Dad went to tap Nate on the head. But right as he went to, Nathan leaned away. So Dad’s hand tipped off him and his head hit the table. Nate was fine. Dad felt really bad since it was on accident. He asked if he was ok. Nathan just sat there facing forward and said yes. Dad goes “are you gonna cry?”. Nathan said “my eyes want to cry but it didn’t hurt that bad.” 

“I’m sorry buddy. Come here, give me a hug” 

Nathan gets up, takes a shaky breath, and gives dad a hug. While they were hugging.... the tears came. Nate started crying. He wasn’t hurt, and it didn’t hurt, yet he involuntary started crying. 

(I want to reiterate again that Dad did this on accident, Nathan was not hurt, and Nathan wasn’t crying because it hurt. The crying just came)

Next, Hannah went back to get seconds of dinner. We were having chicken carbonara. Dad looks over at her plate and says “Hannah, all your peas are separated from the noodles.” 

She looked down and answered, “oh yeah. Yeah they just naturally did that. It just happened”

“Uh huh, ok. Well you need to eat the peas”

“Awwww fine!” 

We laughed about that for a while. 

So we wanted to play a game after dinner. Nathan, Dad, and I all did a Spit (the card game) competition. It started off with me declaring what a good Spit player I am and how I always beat Nathan. Of course I lost to him in the first round 🙄. I gained my reputation back after beating Dad over and over. So Nate beat me, dad beat Nate, then I beat dad. After chaos, the boys cheating, and lots of laughing, Dad and Nathan just started throwing cards at each other. 

So tonight was a fun. We need to get up early tomorrow to drive out to a double header. Good night!

While waiting out the lightning...

Hannah and I were playing our softball game yesterday. We were probably about half way through the game when, in between innings, the lightning alarm went off. There was no rain, the cloud's weren't that dark, and no one had seen or heard lighting or thunder. So it went off and people started throwing down their gloves and walking back to the dugout. We had to wait half and hour before we could play again. So our teams were not allowed to leave the dugout, but our two teams started finding ways to interact. We started throwing a softball across the field and played Tic Tack Toe on the it! After a while, dad and I turned on line dances! We turned up the boombox and both teams danced with each other! 

We had a blast! 

The game did end up getting canceled but it was fun anyways.

Bad Parking

After a softball game, Dad, Hannah, and I went to Culvers for dinner. After we ate we got come ice cream and were getting ready to walk out the door. This other couple was leaving too and we both motioned for each other to go. So there was awkward politeness happening as we all eventually walked out the double doors. As the three of us walked out to the truck, we saw this other truck parked in front of Dad's. It was parked completely sideways, like the driver had just swooped in not caring about parking space lines. So I stopped in front of this car and I yell (to be funny) "WHO PARKED HERE?". Then I hear from behind me "I did". I turned around to see that guy we passed when we were leaving. I thought "Oh my goodness I can't believe I said that" and I turned back and ran and hid behind our truck 😂😂!!! We were laughing hysterically the whole way home!