National Little League World Series

Did anyone watch the Little League World Series on TV (CBS Sports Network) this year???

My oldest son Jens plays on an accelerated baseball team called the Diamond Dawgs. They have played so incredibly well this year! It has been so fun to watch their games. They qualified to play in the National Little League World Series in Steamboat Springs, Colorado this past week.

Our boys came in and for some reason in the pool play, they lost 2 games that we should have won. The teams were completely beatable but we made a couple of errors that cost us the games. As a result, we were seeded really low. But our team did not let us down! They got on a winning streak and battled back hard to beat every team we played game after game (including the teams we lost to in pool play). After 13 games, which translates into 26 hours of baseball...... we were finally finished. We ended up taking 3rd place overall and we could not have been prouder of our boys!

This ski jump is right on the side of the mountain next to the ball park. I literally did not even have to leave my seat to take these pictures of the jumpers. The baseball park is in such a pretty setting. I could watch games there everyday!

After the games the kids would go swimming.

The boys all tried at once to attack Jeff and dunk him.

These boys are on an average of 5' 3" to 6 feet tall and try as they might, they could not get Jeff down! It was so funny to watch!

Then Travis got in the pool and they went after him but they couldn't get him down either!

Then after everyone was exhausted from the "stay afloat struggle" they went to relax in the hot tub.

Baseball, baseball, and more baseball!

On Sunday afternoon we finally lost out. Our team (in blue) congratulating the opposing team.

Then we had the awards ceremony and received our medals. The World Series officials said that they have not seen a team who was seeded so low come back to win as far as we did in the last 35 years! I thought that was a real compliment to our kids of how hard they work and how well they play together.

Also, after EVERY SINGLE game, the opposing coach would comment to Jeff (who is our head coach) on how impressed they were of our boys because they had clean language. Everyone else that we played would drop the "F" word when they would strike out or use other profanities. But our boys are not allowed to swear on the team and it's a rule that is enforced. So long story short, I'm proud of the Dawgs for their good example, their clean language, and how hard they played!

After the games on Sunday afternoon, just before we came home, we went tubing down the Yampa River to celebrate and relax!

It was so much fun.

I got flipped over along with 2 of the boys (that's me in the red with the yellow tube trying to get to where the current wasn't so strong so that I could get back on!)

It was such a fun trip!