Final Score: 6-2

They won!




Next they head to the Gold Coast June 4-7 for the Australian Little League Championship. The flights, accomodations and ground transportation are already booked through Little League Australia!!!! Soooooo exciting!!!!!

Fraser Island

We had a fun 5 day trip to Fraser Island, 3 hours north of Brisbane (about 15 hours north of Sydney on the Eastern coast of Australia). This sand island is a Unesco World Heritage site and is known for having the purest strain of dingos in Australia.

Here is a photo of the kids near a famous ship wreck. I will try to post more photos soon but tonight we're headed to what could be the State Championship Baseball game for Jonah & Matt's team! We're excited about that!

Little League State Championships

We had a very exciting weekend! Matt & Jonah's Little League team are competing in the NSW (New South Wales, the state in Australia we live in) State Championships. The tournament is a double elimination. On Saturday the team won both games and on Sunday they won against last years State & National Championship Team (14-0!). The other 3 teams with 1 loss each now play to determine the champion amongst them and then our team will play whoever that is. If Matt & Jonah's team win the game on April 29th then in June they will head to Queensland for the Australian Championship.
Jonah had lots of big hits in all the games and his fielding has been great! It is getting really exciting watching this team & Jonah do so well!
(all these amazing photos are by Tony Percival-a team dad)

A Day at the Beach

Tuesday morning we woke up to what was basically the first normal day of the Easter Break. The kids have 2.5 weeks off and they were looking forward to some R&R. I told them they could watch TV until 9 am and then it would be switched off until the evening. From 9-10 they played with each other and then they started asking to go to the beach. Jelly Blubber Beach as they named the beach we had been to on Saturday for the Easter Egg Hunt. They had caught some blubbery jelly fish there and were antsy to catch some more. By 11 we were in the car with lunch packed, towels, shovels, pails, sunscreen . . . all the necessities for a day that would be spent in the sun, water and sand. We had a wonderful 4 hours - one of those days that makes us wonder if and how we will ever acclimate to a lifestyle that doesn't include spontaneous trips to the beach.

Happy Easter!

from the half Witt's :)

home from camp!

After 3 days and 2 nights away at camp - we were very happy to see our sweet Belle. (Jonah went to camp this week too but had to come home early because of the rain - they were sleeping in tents. I didn't drop him off or pick him up so no photos at all from his adventure!)