Joe "Logan" Mauer

Somewhere between May and June of this year Logan became a baseball fanatic. Everyday he wants to watch baseball on TV or play baseball in the yard. Unfortunately we did not sign him up for baseball through the Lakeville Baseball Association (LBA) b/c we thought he was busy enough between golf camp, football camp, soccer, etc. However, after weeks of playing baseball every night after school we explored YMCA baseball - and luckily it had not started. Hence, Logan started 8 weeks of baseball yesterday and he was in heaven! It is not as competitive as the LBA, but he is happy hitting the ball and running bases.....doesn't like the fact that there are no outs and you can only run to one base.

He played t-ball before, and I am amazed and how good the kids are at 6-7 yrs old. All of them where hitting the ball from "coach pitch" - some overhand; some underhand. Logan played first base and third base. Carter had a blast playing at the park near the field and watching his BIG brother.

Severe Weather Alert:

Last night was the first time in the 7 years we have lived in our house that we took shelter in the basement. Around 9:45pm the sirens went off for a tornado warning - the TV said it was coming straight into Lakeville. Unless a tornado has winds of about 10 mph, I think the radar was wrong as nothing happened except about an hour of torrential rain (again)! I think we have had about 4-5 inches of rain the last 2 nights. Of course the boys don't remember anything :-)