Spring is Coming!

How do I know? Well, there's the lovely weather we had this weekend, and then... softball is starting this week! Yup! We were invited to play by the guy who's in charge of Ryan's flag-football and basketball leagues, so we accepted! I think he plays in some unGodly number of leagues, so we told him that I would be willing to do 2 per week and Ryan would max out at 3... so we're both currently signed up for 2 co-ed leagues that start this week... Mondays and Fridays. Hooray! Oh, but here's the catch, both leagues are up in Westminster. Oops. We did NOT know that when we signed up. We thought we were playing at Redstone Park here in Highlands Ranch. Alas, nope. Instead of a 5 minute drive down the road, it'll be 45 minutes on a good day! Yikes. Oh well, hopefully it'll be a fun team.

Yesterday we dusted off the cleats, gloves, bats, and balls, and spent a good chunk of the afternoon enjoying the gorgeous weather over at Redstone Park hitting grounders and pop-flies to one another, then threw the ball for a bit and topped it all off with a few tokens worth of balls at the batting cages (which truly is my favorite part)... whewee, good stuff! It was good fun, way better than in California. We kept talking about how not fun it had become out there and we can't figure it out... we think that the fields were so poorly cared for that we just both hated the constant unknown of where the grounders were going to take their bad-hops and when we'd get one where it counted... (ie, face for me, and "junk" for the hubs... heh heh). So even though we're both a bit rusty, we truly are looking forward to getting back in the swing of things (heh heh, pun intended...).

So our first game is tonight at 8:15pm... followed by Friday at 6:15pm... wish us luck!!! I'll report back in with scores and details :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day EVE! :)

** UPDATE **
We won our first game on Monday, and our Friday-night-game has been moved from 6:15 to 8:15pm, which is a blessing because I was not looking forward to driving through Denver on a Friday night right in the midst of rush-hour! Phew!