Greetings from Redlands

Sorry we haven't posted for a while, its easy to get caught up in our everyday lives.

Things are good out here in Southern California. After a little downtime during the holidays, things are starting to pick up around here. As usual, our life is pretty much completely devoted to softball & baseball.

Aiyanna's travel team is playing every weekend right now.  This weekend, we head on out to Huntington Beach for a Triple Crown Tournament, hopefully they do well. Her High School team is starting to gear up for the season. She practices with them for about 3hrs every weekday.  The season will start in late February. She is doing well in school, maintaining a good GPA and is currently researching colleges, Wanda & I are hoping she stays in the area and we're glad her top pick right now is UC Riverside, although, she is looking at schools all over the country. She wants to be a Crime Scene Investigator and a friend of mine who happens to be a police officer arranged for her to meet with his departments CSI.

Nia is our little nerd. She complained everyday during the winter break that she didn't have homework and was counting down to school starting again.  In addition to her Rec Softball team that will start up in February, we decided to have her join a travel team. They practice in Chino, which is about 30 miles from here, so we spend a lot of time on the road.  The team is coming together pretty quickly and they play there first games on the 1st.  Once Rec ball starts up, she will play & practice with both teams, so it will probably be a long season, buts she wants to do it. Her position is Catcher and she's probably the best in the Rec league but she has a lot to learn still and the travel team will really work her hard.  She loves that position and she can't wait to play her games.  She is already thinking about college and she wants to play softball for either UCLA or Oklahoma.  If she keeps up her Catching, she should have no problem getting a scholarship for one of those schools or any other Division I school.

Unlike Nia, Zachary enjoyed every minute of having no homework during the holidays and had no desire to go back to school.  But he's doing well.. He is a little more difficult than the girls but he's smart and does well when he's focused.  He will be playing baseball again starting in February. He had his tryouts this past weekend and did pretty well.  We're hoping he gets on a good team that will challenge him and actually win a few games.

Wanda is doing good, just working hard and keeping us all on the right track. She and I really don't do much other than practice softball, watch softball or drive the kids to softball, so there really is much to report about us.

So that's about it, Hope everyone is well. We're looking forward to reading everyone's posts.