The ABA's, not quite the CMA's, AMA's or any other MA's... but who cares?

I'm woefully behind. Life continues churning along and does not stop to ask me if I'm okay with it.  Do you know that feeling?

Tonight was the baseball awards ceremony and quite frankly, I believe God was smiling on the Altoona Pirates!  We were first!!!

 They had the grounds keepers cart out on field 6 loaded with trophies for the lads and ladettes that played in the 6 +/- year old group.
 

And here they are with their cart o' trophies.

The Pirates are marching up to accept their "hardware" after two different versions of the national anthem...  not that there's anything wrong with that.

There's small Chinese boy hoisting his GOLD!

And his team at the end...

I decided that we could have a fun "park hop" on the way home if the boys behaved themselves....

...they did.  This is at the Sam Wise complex which was not all that exciting to them.

We moved on to what we refer to as "Noah's Park" because once, many years ago, we ran into Robby's friend Noah here. They were roughly 4 years old at the time.

This is at Clay Elementary park, which was our final stop in the "Park Hop" tour.     I took more photos at the other park but they didn't turn out all that good.  Go figure.

Small Chinese boy hamming it up for the camera.

I had to talk the boy into sliding down the dreaded pole.  He did it, twice, but wasn't about to do it again. :-)

Mr. Cutie Pa-tootie at the end of a slide.

The boys on the swings as I tried mightily to get them back into the van!

Closer to the van as you can see the parking lot behind the critters!

And wouldn't you know it?  We found a NFL pee-wee football laying in the grass, completely obstructing us from getting to our vehicle.  I threw about 8 to 10 passes to Robby and Caleb while a grandma of some other little cuties raved about how good the boys were about catching the ol' proverbial pigskin.

A fun night indeed!  Well, up until bathtime...