The Brittons

It's already done...  We didn't know if we would even have a season, and it has turned into a pretty memorable summer so far.  I mentioned before that we signed up Gracie for everything at the beginning because we didn't know which leagues/teams would actually get games in.  Turns out that they all did, so we had quite a busy softball season.  It is always so bittersweet at the end, though.  Especially this year. The Corona Season The last two weeks of league, the City of Columbia passed a mask mandate.  Our girls, coaches, spectators had to wear a mask at the games, except for on the playing field, where they could maintain 6 feet of physical distance. This is the Galaxy 07 team during their mismatch corona mask game. Six feet apart It's pretty hard to enforce this with any kids. Brynn and Gracie....These two have been so fun to watch since they started playing together almost 4 years ago.  They have had 7 seasons together and I ...

This says it all...what a fun trip to Iowa! We left Wednesday evening, July 8, to head to Iowa so Gracie could guest play with the Stealth '08 team she had gone to Oklahoma with.  We had to wait until her league games were done and make it for an 8am game in Des Moines the following morning.  The team was 4-0 in pool play and made it to the "Gold" (top) bracket.  There were 52 teams entered in the tournament and 18 in that particular bracket.  They lost the first game in bracket play, but came back on Saturday morning, winning 2 more games before losing to a really good team out of the Chicago area.  The team she played for ended up tying for 9th, which is not bad.  There were teams from at least 7 different states competing in this tournament. Not only did we get to see lots of family and play a lot of softball, Gracie had her first homerun on Saturday morning, followed by another homerun in the second game of the day.  Both over the fenc...