Wednesday, May 28, 2008

It's about time for some street wiffleball

This has been the big backyard activity this past week.
Pitching, hitting and being the umpire.

Did you notice the bike helmet being used as the umpire mask? Camryn can probably only see half the pitches but apparently safety comes first for her.

After watching this for a couple days and many balls being hit to neighbors backyard(one by me),I figured it was time to go old school and play some wiffleball in the street.
Living right next to a high school, the kids rarely play in the street. This was a huge treat for them. We made bases in the street. We used the rules I grew up with(modified where needed). You get 5 pitches only( hit one or you're out), fly ball to neighbors grass across the street is an automatic out, ball rolls under car runner advances only one base, and you can peg out (throw the ball at)anyone 15 or over. Most important, if the other team has been up a really long time with only 1 out and Drew hits the ball on the neighbors porch across the street, it is an automatic 2 outs and 1 more when they are up next.
We played for well over 2 hours and had a great time. A few of us were a little sore the next morning.
The cheerleaders

The fans

These two got confused and thought we were playing gutter ball

The Awesome Teams


And of course, the game ended in a tie.

10 comments:

Maosi Fam said...

this post seriously must have taken you like an hour and a half to post after you started lol considering you called dad at like 11:15 to see how you spell "wiffleball" and didnt finish the post till 12:50 lollollollol you crack me up with your posts and its even funnier when i get to sit there and watch u try to get th epost together (ahhh the good 'ol late nights at tiff and drews)

anyways i love the pics and captions...and as always peyton looks adorable in the "cheerleader" pic with her twin devyn!

one question: why did your team have 4 ppl and the other team had like 500 more ppl than yours? is it because you and amy are so much better than gian and drew and they needed more help? yup i knew that was it=) hehehehe

Unknown said...

How fun. Tiff, you look like you got a little sun. How are the belly dancing classes going?

Amy-Sue and Gian Del Bello said...

Yeah...we rocked that game!!!! Thanks for teaching my kids what real wiffle ball is!!! (even with some extra rules from the head rulemaster) Ahhh, good times- grab the advil and play ball!

Anne said...

That is so awesome! And SO summery! That makes for good times and great memories!

denise @ little ant design said...

Sounds so much fun. I bet the kids loved every minute of it.

Natalie said...

How fun. I wish we could play stick ball on Broadway and hit a ball through Gallagher's (Irish Pub) windows!

Summer Hardey said...

I wanna play! I haven't played in the street since I was like 10 years old!!!! How fun!

Hess Fam said...

I love these great memories you are creating for your kids. They will love remembering the funnest days with their funnest cousins.

Titel Family said...

Gotta love those fun family times! Looks like you guys had a great time.

Totally Hess said...

Those teams did not look very fair!